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The Mighty God Will Not Remain Silent Forever
Psalm 50 – Metrical Version (Scottish Metrical Psalter)(Meter: SMD and the words are well set to the tune Diademata, which I promise you sounds much better sung in 4 parts than midi’d, though that’s the only “instrumental” form I could find) 1 The mighty God, the Lord, hath spoken, and did call The earth, from…
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Internet Anonymity Series
David Anderson at More than Words has provided an interesting series on Internet anonymity. While I don’t fully agree with him (otherwise I wouldn’t post pseudonymously) he has a number of thought-provoking posts on the issue: Introduction Post 1: In which he notes that some attempts at anonymity are attempts to avoid the consequences of…
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Sad Books News
I regret to inform my readers that Live Search Books (and Microsoft’s digitization project that went with it) has been aborted. This is a huge loss, as it was the closest competitor to Google Books. It had a better interface than its competitor and sometimes had content available that was not available via Google Books.…
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Sola Scriptura Debate – Errata
I seem to have conflated Wycliffe and Tyndale in my opening post. (Image of Wycliffe’s Bible shown at right.) I wrote: “The first English Bible was not published until the time of Wycliffe in the 14th century. Wycliffe received martyrdom for his troubles, and the papist authorities sought to destroy the copies of the Bible…
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First Post of the First Round of Sola Scriptura Debate Posted
The post may be found here (link). I have titled the debate “Sola Scriptura vs. Roman Catholicism,” not because I am unaware of the different rites that exist within what calls itself “Catholicism,” but because I must deny (with all non-“Roman Catholic” Christians) that the church headed by the Pope is the universal church. Thus,…
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With Man it is Impossible – A Further Response to GodIsMyJudge
This is a response to a post (link) from Godismyjudge (Dan) responding to my earlier post here (link). Dan’s response doesn’t seem to consist of much. 1) Dan seems to think that God self-determining is significant. In fact he says, “Please just let me enjoy the moment.” As demonstrated previously, though, self-determining does not equate…
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God Determines All – A Response to Godismyjudge
In response to my recent post (link) on some fundamental problems with LFW, Godismyjudge (Dan) has provided a response (link). This is my rebuttal to his response. Ultimately, the problem I have with Dan’s response is this: our position is that God sovereignly determines all of history. We don’t have any problem asserting that God…
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Psalm 1 – NVBSE Collated
In this post, the Nova Vulgata, Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio (available without visible copyright here (link) ) is compared with the Old Latin Version (adopted by Trent and based on the Septuagint) and Jerome’s translation (based on the Hebrew). My primary source for the text of the Old Latin (OL) and Jerome’s translation (H), as well…
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Athanasius thinks the Foundation is What?
Recently, David Waltz provided the following alleged quotation from Athanasius, which immediately caught my attention: “Moreover, aside from these scriptural utterances, let us also consider the tradition and teaching and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, that which the Lord has given, the apostles preached, and the fathers [596A] guarded. This is the…
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Thoughts on the Will's Freedom
I was listening to an interesting discussion on the will’s freedom, in which the compatibilist noted the following: 1) The standard contemporary definition for Libertarian Free Will is the ability to do otherwise, given all preceding causal factors. 2) Thus, to take an example, if we choose to pull a trigger – we could have…