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Omni-benevolence Summarily Refuted
I enjoyed the short work Ray Comfort made in this article (link) of the idea of divine omni-benevolence. To God be the Glory!
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Two Bad Bible Versions
The Bayly Brothers (in particular, Tim, I think) have a good rerun of an article they previously posted (in 2004) on why “The Living Translation” and “Today’s New International Version” are bad. (link) It’s really a must-read, if you want a reasonable critique that – in my opinion – thoroughly obviates the need to purchase…
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Vatican vs. San Francisco
World Net Daily has a rather one-sided article (favoring the Vatican) reporting on a recent clash between the Vatican and the City of San Francisco. (link) Obviously, the issue is homosexuality. It’s unclear to me why the Vatican thinks that suing the City of San Francisco over what amounts to nothing more than a statement…
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Another Example of Wrong-way Evangelism
In this video, a young man openly opposes a sodomite Anglican bishop (link). He uses a more straightforward, but similarly disruptive technique to that shown in one of my previous posts (link) to attempt to evangelize Romanists. I have much the same comments. His heart seems to be in the right place, but he’s not…
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Arminius – Closer Than You Might Think
We frequently refer to non-Calvinist evangelicals as “Arminians,” in very broad sweeping terms. This is partly for simplicity, and partly because we view them as having some historical connection to Arminius. When one actually goes and reads what the historical Arminius wrote, one finds him to be much closer to the Reformed views than many…
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Do Romanists Pray to Saints?
Sometimes we hear claims that Romanists pray to saints. Then we read blog articles like this one (link) and we realize that, no, we were right. They do pray to saints. They even then give glory for answering prayer to the saints to whom they pray. Here’s a link to the prayer used, reportedly with…
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Divine Determination – More in Discussion with Godismyjudge
Some Clarification and Discussion of the Topic at Hand God, in decreeing all that would come to pass, was acting freely: he was not necessitated and he was uncaused. That is to say, there is no preceding cause for the effect of God’s decree of Providence, including the special instance of Creation. One can view…
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Celebrating the Release of Prisoners
Today the French celebrate “Bastille Day,” a day on which the rebellious mob of the French Revolution overwhelmed the security of France’s most famous prison, the Bastille, and released its prisoners. I have a proposal this year to remember on this day God’s gracious act of regeneration. It is a bit incongruous, I suppose to…
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Two Reasons I'm not a Romanist
Because (1) you can do everything Rome tells you to do and still perish, and (2) the religion of Rome makes no promise to be the unique way to heaven. (link) Now, obviously, these are not the traditional doctrines (pre-Vatican II), but I don’t think I could be a Sedavacantist for other reasons. Warning: the…
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Two Reasons I’m not a Romanist
Because (1) you can do everything Rome tells you to do and still perish, and (2) the religion of Rome makes no promise to be the unique way to heaven. (link) Now, obviously, these are not the traditional doctrines (pre-Vatican II), but I don’t think I could be a Sedavacantist for other reasons. Warning: the…