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Sold Their Souls for Negative Five Pounds Sterling
It was a little disheartening to see that about 90% of the purchasers of one particular game sold their souls for negative five pounds (British) (link to story). Technically, they optioned their souls for that price, since the game company has to exercise its option … but since the exercise of the option includes no…
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Scripture's Clarity Confirmed Against Smudges – 3/25
Dave Armstrong has posted a series of “25 Short Arguments on the Difficulties of Perspicuity (Clearness of Scripture for Salvation)” (link) from his book “501 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura: Is the Bible the Only Infallible Authority?” I can see that his list of arguments has received nearly a thousand views, so perhaps it makes…
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Scripture’s Clarity Confirmed Against Smudges – 3/25
Dave Armstrong has posted a series of “25 Short Arguments on the Difficulties of Perspicuity (Clearness of Scripture for Salvation)” (link) from his book “501 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura: Is the Bible the Only Infallible Authority?” I can see that his list of arguments has received nearly a thousand views, so perhaps it makes…
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Eastern Orthodoxy and Reformed Radar
Mr. Mark Shea is determined to make sure that Eastern Orthodoxy is on our radar (link to Shea’s post). While we appreciate Mr. Shea’s attempt to bring clarity to the table, we are well aware of the Eastern Orthodox. In fact, we’re well aware of attempts like those those of Mr. Shea to overplay the…
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Quick Thoughts on the General Love of God
Those who have had to debate Arminians or (some) Amyraldians may have heard them express their errant ideas of the universality of God’s saving love. Nevertheless, God does have a care for the preservation of all things that exist. If he did not preserve them they would perish; their life-and-death matters are all in His…
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New Biography for Caner
There is a new biography of Ergun Caner posted at Liberty University’s website. It is only five sentences long, but two of the five sentences in the biography are troubling. The first troubling sentence is this: “Raised as a devout Sunni Muslim and the son of an Islamic leader, Caner came to faith in Jesus…
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Resources: Lane Chaplin
Lane Chaplin has several resources of interest. The first is Lane’s Blog which also serves as a clearinghouse for his other resources. He has a podcast called “Rightly Divided.” He also has a very popular YouTube channel, which is the leading source of sermons by Paul Washer but also has numerous other videos of interest.…
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Brief Responses to Jay Dyer
Jay Dyer has resurrected a few old jibes at his blog in two posts (first)(second). In the first article he resurrects the assertion (which I already debunked) that Calvinists are Nestorians or “proto-Nestorians”: Here, St. Athanasius rebukes the Proto-Nestorians and by extension, their modern day re-incarnation, the Calvinists. So, we now officially have five well-known…
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Resources: RealApologetics.org
RealApologetics.org (motto: Because Method Matters) provides a variety of resources relating to, you guessed it, apologetics. There are a number of papers (link) as well as a blog (link). There is also a series of podcasts known as the Provocative Microphone (I was honored to appear as a guest on one episode). It hasn’t been…
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Magisterium of One: The Latest Alternative to Imprimatur from the "Catholic Champion" Site
Matthew Bellisario, the magisterium of one, has a new prohibited authors index of “modernists” and “new theologians” that he would avoid (link). Let’s peruse his list … 1) Karl Rahner co-authored with Joseph Ratzinger, received Imprimatur, Revelation and tradition 2) Henri de Lubac De la connaissance de Dieu (published with Imprimatur) Fr Federico Lombardi, S.J.,…