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Rebuttal to Hubner’s Response to DeYoung
Jamin Hubner has posted a response to Kevin DeYoung on the topic Baptism and the covenant. Jamin quote KDY as stating: “If circumcision was for Abraham a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith, then we cannot say the cutting away of the flesh was simply an ethnic identity marker or a sign…
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Ratzinger the Scotian Pantheist?
In the comment box of the Greenbaggins blog, John Bugay has provided some material from Ratzinger/Benedict XVI that seems rather pantheistic. Naturally, some of the CtC crowd have taken offense at this, and have responded. While there is something amusing about watching the defense of Ratzinger by those who serve him, the matter is not…
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Properly Loving One's Neighbor
Douglas Wilson (there, I’ve now lost half my reading audience) has posted some shots at Horton’s piece on “gay marriage.” (link to Wilson) Wilson was struck by something Horton said, something that also struck me: “The challenge there is that two Christians who hold the same beliefs about marriage as Christians may appeal to neighbor-love…
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Properly Loving One’s Neighbor
Douglas Wilson (there, I’ve now lost half my reading audience) has posted some shots at Horton’s piece on “gay marriage.” (link to Wilson) Wilson was struck by something Horton said, something that also struck me: “The challenge there is that two Christians who hold the same beliefs about marriage as Christians may appeal to neighbor-love…
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"So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful?"
Another graphic that is floating around the social media sites is one titled “So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful?” and subtitled “And therefore gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry?” (Example) That’s not actually the reason that “gay marriage” shouldn’t be allowed. The reason is that such a thing is an oxymoron. Marriage is a…
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"So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful?"
Another graphic that is floating around the social media sites is one titled “So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful?” and subtitled “And therefore gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry?” (Example) That’s not actually the reason that “gay marriage” shouldn’t be allowed. The reason is that such a thing is an oxymoron. Marriage is a…
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How the Bible Defines Marriage
There is a graphic that has made its way around various social media sites (example) that purports to describe “How the Bible Defines Marriage.” The graphic manages to oversimplify things, get things wrong, and needlessly complicate things. Let’s address the needless complications first. The Bible is pretty clear on the definition of marriage. Marriage is…
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Are Nations Supposed to be Concerned About Righteousness?
Some people seem to think that nations have no business in promoting morality in general or sexual morality in particular. There’s not always a cogent reason for this objection, but often the presupposition behind the objection is that there is supposed to be separation of church and state, and that this separation should entail the…
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Authority Granted to Judge what Paul Wrote …
We are sometimes asked who gave us the authority to “interpret” Scripture. This is phrased in various ways – sometimes like that, sometimes in the following way: But since God wrote the Bible for the Church, I believe that we lose our ability to rightly interpret the Bible in its own authentic sense when we…
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Patrick's Pejoratives vs. Rhology's Writing
Patrick Madrid tweets: “Yet another example of the misguided, myopic #Protestant bluster about #SolaScriptura & #sects. Wow. http://t.co/tkoX1PMw #blind #clueless “ His link takes you to this comment by the redoubtable Rhology. Responding to this: The fact that there are thousands is enough to show sola Scriptura’s fruits: the individual as ultimate interpretive authority of…