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Defining "Responsibility" for Leighton Flowers
I was listening to Professor Leighton Flowers talk about “responsibility,” (mp3 – around 29 minutes into the debate) and he noticed that he tried to define it as “able to respond,” as in being able to respond positively to God’s commands and exhortations. That definition is just fanciful. The term “responsible” actually means “answerable” or…
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Defining "Responsibility" for Leighton Flowers
I was listening to Professor Leighton Flowers talk about “responsibility,” (mp3 – around 29 minutes into the debate) and he noticed that he tried to define it as “able to respond,” as in being able to respond positively to God’s commands and exhortations. That definition is just fanciful. The term “responsible” actually means “answerable” or…
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Matt Slick Errs on Textual Transmission / Textual Criticism Again
Matt Slick has again (The Bible Thumping Wingnut, Episode 61, around 30 minutes into the episode) erred on the topic of textual criticism. Unfortunately, Mr. Slick seems to be confused about the transmission of the New Testament compared to the translation of the Old Testament. His comment about adding up numbers seems to be based…
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Does Religion Poison Everything?
One of the claims of the new atheists is that “Religion Poisons Everything.” This has been the subject of a number of debates. Typically, the non-atheist will point out folks like Stalin and Mao were not religious and yet were responsible for enormous harm. Thus, while religious people may also cause harm, the harm of…
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John Owen on the Theonomy Debate between Joel McDurmon and Jordan Hall
John Owen, Works, Volume 8 (“Sermons to the Nations“), p. 394: Although the institutions and examples of the Old Testament, of the duty of magistrates in the things and about the worship of God, are not, in their whole latitude and extent, to be drawn into rules that should be obligatory to all magistrates now,…
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Variants and Matt Slick
I’m listening through a variety of episodes of the “Bible Thumping Wingnut.” Despite the very low quality stuff on theonomy in a few of the recent episodes (I don’t see the point to correct these errors – there are plenty of other folks doing that and being ignored), there are some good discussions on a…
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Innocent X vs Sound Doctrine
In 1653, Innocent X released the constitution “Cum Occasione” (May 31, 1653)(full text here). In that document, there were errors said to have been extracted from the Augustinus of Cornelius Jansen. These are also printed Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma (1957)(Dz. 1092-1096)(link) 1. Some of God’s precepts are impossible to the just, who wish…
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Actually, Jesus Did Ask Someone to Write a Book
About 43 minutes into episode #6838 of Catholic Answers Live, Patrick Coffin, the host of the show, stated: “Jesus never wrote a book, didn’t ask anybody to write a book, or you know – put on kind of memo on the fridges of Nazareth, but he did found a church.” I’ve previously addressed this “Jesus…
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Christ is what's Better about the New Covenant
What’s better about the New Covenant? Christ. That’s the point of Hebrews. My beloved Reformed Baptist brothers seem to have missed this. Baptism is not better than circumcision – the Lord’s Supper is not better than the Passover. Instead, Christ’s blood is better than the things that point forward or backward to it. There is…
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Christ is what’s Better about the New Covenant
What’s better about the New Covenant? Christ. That’s the point of Hebrews. My beloved Reformed Baptist brothers seem to have missed this.Baptism is not better than circumcision – the Lord’s Supper is not better than the Passover. Instead, Christ’s blood is better than the things that point forward or backward to it.There is a distinction…