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Hart’s Responses to Frame
Darryl Hart has offered several responses to Frame’s book. The first response I’ll consider is one Hart titled, “More Than You Bargained For?” in which Hart responds to Frame’s comment: “They are also motivated by a desire to oppose what they regard as theological corruptions of the Reformation doctrine, particularly the views of N.T. Wright,…
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Thomas Adam on Idols and Idolatry
The following is an excerpt from a sermon by Thomas Adam: Idols.—Idol, in Greek, signifies a resemblance or representation, and differs not from image in Latin; both at first taken in a good sense, but the corruption of times hath bred a corruption of words, and idol is now only taken for the image of…
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It's not Personal … therefore not Moral (from Zrim)
Zrim proposed the following interesting argument: The only thing I can imagine is that you think to behave politically is to behave personally. But when I vote for or against something, or even abstain from any political involvement, I’m not behaving personally morally but politically (or apolitically as the case may be). This is the…
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It’s not Personal … therefore not Moral (from Zrim)
Zrim proposed the following interesting argument: The only thing I can imagine is that you think to behave politically is to behave personally. But when I vote for or against something, or even abstain from any political involvement, I’m not behaving personally morally but politically (or apolitically as the case may be). This is the…
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Negative Constructive
Prologue If you try to put a square peg in a round hole, you’re asking for trouble. Those two are not compatible shapes. Their incompatibility can be seen just by looking at their shapes. The incompatibility of things we can’t see is often more difficult to determine. For example, if we have a square peg…
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Some Verses Regarding Compatible Free Will
The Bible teaches compatible, not so-called “libertarian,” free will. That means that men choose what God has foreordained or determined that they will choose. It’s the kind of free will that Calvinists speak about, and it is the kind of free will that is referred to when the Scriptures speak about “Freewill offerings.” (See, for…
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Response to Todd Bordow on Capital Punishment for Blasphemy
Over at Greenbaggins, Todd Bordow provided an interesting comment. He wrote: I think I was fairly clear earlier: the Biblical answer to the injustices of the world and injustice of governments is the Second Coming, not a return to the punishments of the Mosaic Law (theonomy), or enforcing true religion by the sword (theocracy). And…
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The Escondido Principle of Separation of Christianity and State – Reviewed
I was recently directed to this interesting review of Darryl Hart’s book (The book is titled: “A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State”): Hart thinks the root error of Christians who try to bring their faith into the arena of politics is the failure to understand that it just doesn’t…
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Darryl Hart's Affirmations and Denials, Escondido Theology, and the Two Kingdoms
Darryl G. Hart has posted (well, Reed has posted for Darryl) some affirmations and denials on issues related to DGH’s view of the Two Kingdoms, a view Darryl misleading refers to as “the two kingdoms view” but which departs significantly from the two kingdoms views of Calvin and the Westminster divines. I had originally drafted…
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Darryl Hart’s Affirmations and Denials, Escondido Theology, and the Two Kingdoms
Darryl G. Hart has posted (well, Reed has posted for Darryl) some affirmations and denials on issues related to DGH’s view of the Two Kingdoms, a view Darryl misleading refers to as “the two kingdoms view” but which departs significantly from the two kingdoms views of Calvin and the Westminster divines. I had originally drafted…