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An Aside to the Formal Sufficiency Series – Partim-Partim Sufficiency?
Pastor King brought to my attention the writings of my favorite Reformed theologian, the real Francis Turretin, on the topic of formal sufficiency. Well, the topic that comes the closest to that particular issue, since – of course – Turretin does not use the phrase “formal sufficiency.” Turretin poses the sixteenth question of the second…
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Formal Sufficiency of Scripture: The Testimony of Scripture (Guest Series)
Formal Sufficiency of ScriptureStated and Examined from Scripture and the Fathers, with scholarly confirmation regarding the Fathers’ views. In the introduction (link), we began with some of the testimony of Scripture regarding its own sufficiency. In this section, although our Roman challenger has not requested it, we will discuss what the Bible has to say…
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Formal Sufficiency of Scripture: Introduction (Guest Series)
Formal Sufficiency of ScriptureStated and Examined from Scripture and the Fathers, with scholarly confirmation regarding the Fathers’ views. The Scriptures are the Word of God. Their purpose, among other things, is to bring people who read them to a saving knowledge of God – to bring them to faith in God and repentance from sin.…
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Excommunicating Apostates
Over at the Roman Catholic Called to Communion blog (home to a number of apostate “Reformed” folks), the topic of excommunication came up. Apparently, one of the folks there (Christopher Lake) who wants to leave his church for Rome has been receiving at least the threat of godly discipline (link to comment). I am glad…
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Squid Lighting System – Clearly Designed
I don’t support the group that put on this presentation, and their purpose is not to show intelligent design of biological systems. Nevertheless, the following video provides some interesting insights. The video is mostly about the communication that bacteria use to communicate both within and among species of bacteria. The video also explains, however, a…
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Papal Infallibility Debate with William Albrecht
This past week I debated Mr. William Albrecht (Roman Catholic) on the subject of Papal Infallibility. The specific question was whether Vatican I was correct regarding papal infallibility. Naturally, I answered the question in the negative. Here’s the video. http://www.youtube.com/p/F434D340E8B6E7A1?hl=en_US&fs=1 (link to mp3) – TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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Who Cares about Historical Theology?
Jason Stellman has posted an article in which he says: It seems to me that all this effort on the part of Catholics to prove that the fathers are on their team, and (especially) all the effort on the part of Protestants to demolish these claims, is beside the point and can be a distraction…
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Trying Out WordPress
I’m not really sure whether Blogger or WordPress is a better blogging platform. In the short term, I’m going to continue blogging here and occasionally updating the WordPress blog. Unsurprising the other blog is at http://turretinfan.wordpress.com/ Feel free to use whichever you like, though most of my attention is on this blog for right now.…
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Response to Bill O'Reilly and Bill Maher
Recently, Bill Maher triumphed over Bill O’Reilly in an interview on Fox news (link to video). Why did Mr. Maher triumph? He triumphed because he exposed Mr. O’Reilly’s inconsistencies. Mr. Maher’s first point was that 60% of Americans believe that the Noah’s ark story is literally true. Mr. O’Reilly stated that he doesn’t know any…
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Response to Bill O’Reilly and Bill Maher
Recently, Bill Maher triumphed over Bill O’Reilly in an interview on Fox news (link to video). Why did Mr. Maher triumph? He triumphed because he exposed Mr. O’Reilly’s inconsistencies. Mr. Maher’s first point was that 60% of Americans believe that the Noah’s ark story is literally true. Mr. O’Reilly stated that he doesn’t know any…