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Unloading 17 More Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 7/17
Steve Ray has a list of more than 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). I originally planned to respond to just 35 of them, but the series seems to have been of interest, so in this extension, I’m responding to three more numbered questions in his list, plus…
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Unloading 17 More Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 7/17
Steve Ray has a list of more than 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). I originally planned to respond to just 35 of them, but the series seems to have been of interest, so in this extension, I’m responding to three more numbered questions in his list, plus…
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Temporary Faith – John Brown of Haddington
Q. What is temporary faith ?—A. An affecting persuasion of divine truths, and presumptuous leaning on the promises for a time, without receiving Christ as our only Saviour, Matth. xiii. 20—22. Acts. viii. 13. – John Brown of Haddington, An Essay towards an Easy, Plain, Practical, and Extensive Explication of the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism, pp.…
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Like Us – Except Without Sin – Further Response to Edward Reiss
Edward Reiss has posted a further response (link) in our on-going discussion on Christ and his human nature. Reiss states: When I say Jesus’ human nature is divinized, what do I mean? I do not mean that the divine nature is mixed with the human nature, what I mean is that the union of the…
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Unloading 17 More Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 6/17
Steve Ray has a list of more than 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). I originally planned to respond to just 35 of them, but the series seems to have been of interest, so in this extension, I’m responding to three more numbered questions in his list, plus…
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Unloading 17 More Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 6/17
Steve Ray has a list of more than 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). I originally planned to respond to just 35 of them, but the series seems to have been of interest, so in this extension, I’m responding to three more numbered questions in his list, plus…
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Ratzinger "Led Cover-Up of Child Abuse by Priests"?
That’s the claim leveled in this article (link). Take the claim with a grain of salt – the article itself identifies the man who is now known as Benedict XVI as “Thomas Ratzinger” rather than “Joseph Ratzinger.” This, coming hard on the heels of the revelation that John Paul II practiced the pagan practice of…
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Ratzinger "Led Cover-Up of Child Abuse by Priests"?
That’s the claim leveled in this article (link). Take the claim with a grain of salt – the article itself identifies the man who is now known as Benedict XVI as “Thomas Ratzinger” rather than “Joseph Ratzinger.” This, coming hard on the heels of the revelation that John Paul II practiced the pagan practice of…
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Temporary Faith – Zacharias Ursinus
Temporary faith is an assent to the doctrines of the church, accompanied with profession and joy, but not with a true and abiding joy, such as arises from a consciousness that we are the objects of the divine favor, but from some other cause, whatever it may be, so that it endures only for a…
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Unloading 17 More Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 5/17
Steve Ray has a list of more than 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). I originally planned to respond to just 35 of them, but the series seems to have been of interest, so in this extension, I’m responding to three more numbered questions in his list, plus…