Vice and the Viceroy

Vice and the Viceroy. My brother and I duke it out over covenant theology.

No, Mr. President. Killing Is Killing No Matter What We Call It.

No, Mr. President. Killing Is Killing No Matter What We Call It..

Let’s support life

For God So Loved the World

Christ’s own heart and ministry, in this respect, are our pattern. We are to point the lost to the sufficiency of Christ to save them. In addition to Christ’s express evangelistic commands and God’s will that all be saved, Christ’s actual sufficiency to save all men should also form the basis of our evangelism. Knowledge of God’s revealed will should drive our evangelism, not our ignorance of His secret will. (Allen, Whosoever Will: A Biblical-Theological Critique of Five-Point Calvinism, pg. 97)

Guilty as Charged?

Arminians are often accused of defending man in relation to God. They are charged with elevating man’s importance and defending his justice. What of the justice of God they say? Is He not free? Certainly; but look at the evidence. In almost every Arminian writing (including moderate Calvinists) its the nature of God they are defending. God is just and free. His nature determines his actions. I’m wondering if this isn’t a zero sum fallacy playing out because of a system rather than honest Bible study.

On Tweeting and Theology

After a long time of holding out, I now have a twitter account. I have to say: I love it. Its pretty cool. Now I can tweet on theology.

Science, Faith, and the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy | The BioLogos Forum

Science, Faith, and the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy | The BioLogos Forum.

Starting this series by Peter Enns – looks promising for my research on the Hidden Schism project.

The Hidden Schism – Introduction

My mind is an organizer. I have this constant propensity to classify things. Whether this is a good or bad thing remains to be seen. Either way, it serves to provide contrast between paradigms that are often larger than people think. For example, what of the doctrine of transubstantiation? Are the elements transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ? Certainly, the question can and should be answered exegetically; but is there not something deeper? The question could be posed another way. And perhaps the answer given reveals a fault-line, a hidden schism, that we only feel but can’t see. What if what was at stake was supernaturalism itself? I want to explore this further. So over the next few weeks I’m going to concentrate on whether certain people, their views, and our beliefs about them constitute a kind of capitulation to “modernity” or an affirmation of the supernatural and theism.