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Textual Criticism Reading Suggestions
Someone asked where a good place to start in studying textual critical issues is. Here are my recommendations: 1. “Logical Criticism of Textual Criticism,” by Dr. Gordon Clark (link). This is a great introduction piece, and not a major reading assignment. Written by a Reformed philosophy professor who is know with the Lord, this article…
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Armstrong Correctly Predicts …
“… I will hear the usual droning complaints about the length of this paper, and a bunch of hooey about my supposedly straying from the topic, as it is …” (source) (consider it commented, that’s 27 pages if printed on normal paper and adjusting font size up from 8.5 to 12, and there were plenty…
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Remembering September 11, 2001
In a more timely article (than this one) remembering September 11, 2001, the authors of one website wrote that the emergency was not due to Muslim terrorists who were out to destroy our freedom but was a far more sinister one. The authors were right, though not in the way they imagined. (Sadly, the otherwise…
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Reformed Theology Confronted by Prophecy
As most people are aware, one of the five sola’s of the Reformation is Sola Scriptura. (Ok, maybe not most people, but lots of people.) For a number of reasons, Reformation theology – particularly Calvinist soteriology – has been adopted by a number of groups who claim to have and use various “Charismatic” gifts: such…
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Muscovite Mockers
If you stand up for Christ in your community, you may receive the treatment described by Doug Wilson in this update on the persecution of Christians in Moscow (link). That is to say, you may be mocked in the most senseless ways imagineable. He may not have some theological errors (who doesn’t?), but it is…
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Limited Atonement – John 17
One reader noted the following comment: “Limited Atonement is a doctrine offered in answer to the question, “for whose sins did Christ atone?” The Bible teaches that Christ died for those whom God gave him to save (John 17:9). Christ died, indeed, for many people, but not all (Matthew 26:28). Specifically, Christ died for the…
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Saint and Sinner Fires, Armstrong Dodges
Saint and Sinner has begun a critique of Armstrong’s “Catholic Verses” (link) Mr. Armstrong has found some time to respond in a limited way (link). Mr. Armstrong notes that the title of S&S’s post is “The Eisegeted Verses.” What is interesting is that Mr. Armstrong does not directly dispute S&S’s assertion that he employs eisegesis.…
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Reminder to Guardian
An Internet poster named Guardian wrote this post (link) in response to which Dr. White asked him to call into the Dividing Line radio program. Guardian did so, and was much more respectful and reasonable than the brief post linked above would suggest. When Guardian called in on July 17, 2007, and suggested that he…
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Communications to the Departed
From time to time, one hears folks claim that they hold to their views because they found them in the Bible. For example, one hears claims from Roman Catholic apologists that they figured out that Roman Catholic theology was scriptural, and consequently became Roman Catholics. One area where such a claim cannot be true (and…
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Mutual Exclusivity
This popular Internet poster (link) recently realized that one cannot please both Roman Catholicism and Reformed Theology (iMonk writes: “If the answer to my blogging is Olson’s “Why I’m Not A Protestant,” I think my answer to Olson is…….completely irrelevant. If I call him my brother, I’m a damnable heretic with the truly reformed, and…