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Living Out Part 4 – A Call to Immediate Action

Tom Buck, March 28, 2019, Homosexuality

Living Out and a Call to Immediate Action When Paul wrote young pastor Timothy in the church at Ephesus, he reminded him of this sobering reality of ministry: “Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:16). As pastors, we must

Living Out Part 3 – Unbiblical Counsel

Tom Buck, March 27, 2019, Homosexuality

The Unbiblical Counsel of Living Out Paul tells the Colossians that they have been saved for the purpose of being presented “holy and blameless and above reproach” before Christ (Col 1:22). This requires, he says, that they “continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in

Living Out Part 2 – A Closer Examination

Tom Buck, March 26, 2019, Homosexuality

A Closer Examination of Living Out In my past experience, many Christians have not demonstrated compassion towards homosexuals and those struggling with same-sex attraction. As I shared in my first article, I found it common for Christians, even pastors, to express ridicule and contempt towards homosexuals rather than love and compassion for them. Therefore, some of the shifts occurring among

Living Out Part 1 – The Shift

Tom Buck, March 25, 2019, Homosexuality

The Church’s Shift in Addressing Homosexuality In my seminary days, Dr. Howard Hendricks warned us that the church tends to drift from one extreme to another. He declared that the church tends to be balanced only for a brief moment when it is swinging from one end of the pendulum to the other. I am reminded of this assessment as

John Owen’s Usage of Thomas Aquinas, Part 2

Chris Whisonant, February 12, 2024, Church History, John Owen

This is a follow up to Part 1 in this blog series where I will go through the works of John Owen detailing where he has mentioned Thomas Aquinas. I hope that this series is helpful. In this second part, I would like to look at a couple of different types of usage that we find. First will be some

Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 2 – Augustine, 412, and Original Sin

Chris Whisonant, May 9, 2020, Church Fathers, Ken Wilson

Upon hearing that infants should be baptized not to remit original sin but simply to sanctify them, Augustine realized that this was not part of what he understood as the Christian faith handed down through the ages. He understood that the Church “guarded with utmost constancy” the doctrine that children were sinners due to their inheriting original sin from Adam. Therefore, his immediate argument was that the Church was against this novel doctrine of Pelagius and that infants should have always been baptized to cleanse them of their sin. If there was a side that Augustine would have understood as “traditional”, it was that side guarded by the Church that believed the transmission of original sin from Adam needed to be washed away in infants so that they could be clean and free from sin until such a time as they committed their own personal sin.

Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 1 – Clement and Free Will

Chris Whisonant, May 8, 2020, Church Fathers, Ken Wilson

Dr. Wilson argues that when Clement stirred up the believers in Corinth to good works that the implicit logical consequence must only be libertarian free will. If this is clear through implication, what of the explicit statements relating God’s will to our calling, justification, and opening of the eyes of our hearts that Clement understood believers are predestined and elected by God? By simply looking at the actual writing of Clement, there would be more data demonstrating that he was on the “traditional” belief in election as it relates to God’s purpose of salvation.

Living Out – A Follow-Up and Call to Further Action

Tom Buck, June 6, 2019, Homosexuality

Living Out – A Follow-Up and Call to Further Action On March 25, I began a series of articles that addressed concerns with the ministry of Living Out ( part 1, part 2, part 3 part 4). Over the course of four days, I revealed multiple resources at the Living Out website that were deeply troubling and profoundly unbiblical. I

Camping Rained Out by Flood

TurretinFan, May 17, 2011, Theology Matters

One of the key items in Harold Camping’s interpretation that leads him to conclude that 2011 is the last year is that the flood was in 4990 B.C. and that A.D. 2011 is “exactly” 7000 years later. That 7000 years number is important to Camping, because at one point God said to Noah, “For yet seven days, … and every

Guessing About God: Mormonism’s Inability to Resist the Onslaught of Modernistic Skepticism (Part 8)

James White, May 4, 2011, Mormonism

I here continue my response to Daniel McClellan’s April 8th article. I’ll now turn to his actual argument. I’m going to largely avoid addressing specific claims about Mormon beliefs that are brought up by James with varying degrees of accuracy only for shock value. Such rhetoric really doesn’t make a real point and doesn’t merit a response. Mr. McClellan’s words

Guessing About God: Mormonism’s Inability to Resist the Onslaught of Modernistic Skepticism (Part 7)

James White, May 2, 2011, Mormonism

I continue my response to Daniel McClellan’s blog post, found here. Please note that with this article I am breaking from the order of Mr. McClellan’s article. I will seek to respond to the material skipped in the next installment. I sincerely apologize for the sheer length of this single segment, but I am truly attempting to transcend the normal

Guessing About God: Mormonism’s Inability to Resist the Onslaught of Modernistic Skepticism (Part 5)

James White, April 27, 2011, Mormonism

I am continuing with my response to LDS writer Daniel McClellan’s blog article from April 8, 2011, found here. I note as well that Mr. McClellan has already begun replying to me, resulting in a very, and I mean very, large amount of text. My intention is to finish this initial response, comment briefly on anything I find helpful or

Guessing About God: Mormonism’s Inability to Resist the Onslaught of Modernistic Skepticism (Part 4)

James White, April 25, 2011, Mormonism

Additionally, given that Christianity must be allowed to define itself (as James asserts), in any objective approach to the question, Mormonism must be allowed to participate in that process of definition. To preclude Mormonism from Christianity’s self-definition is, again, begging the question. It assumes the conclusion in setting up the premise. Would it be begging the

Advice for Living a Godly Life

Jeff Downs, July 7, 2010, Exegesis

Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary is offering A Summer Course on The Epistle of Paul to Titus with Dr. George Knight, III. Who is George Knight? Dr. Knight is adjunct professor of New Testament at Greenville Seminary. He is an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, serving as teaching elder at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina. He has taught

Of Joseph Smith and Ergun Caner (Part 2)

James White, July 3, 2010, Misc

The Charge that He Could Speak Arabic When He Can’t.—He only claims to be able to speak Arabic the way most non-Arabic Muslims do. Although he was raised in Sweden by a Swedish mother, Ergun learned enough Arabic (as most Muslims do) to read the Qur’an and speak it in prayer. Please compare this excuse with the reality of each

Of Joseph Smith and Ergun Caner (Part 1)

James White, July 3, 2010, Misc

Norman Geisler has posted a lengthy defense of Ergun Caner on his website. It is a collection of all of the attempts to explain Caner’s myths over the past few months, but it ignores major portions of the data that exists relating to Caner’s claims. It is a sad spectacle to see the man best known for the defense of

Ergun Caner’s New Cleaned-Up, Without Apologies Bio

James White, April 14, 2010, Misc

Well, Mr. Burleson was right. Yesterday the bio that had included the claim that Caner came to the US in 1979 (you can still see that date in the search data found here, currently the third entry, which reads, “… homeLIFE Ergun was born in Stockholm, Sweden to turkish parents and in 1979 immigrated to the United States with his

What About King Saul?

TurretinFan, September 11, 2009, Roman Catholicism

Previously, I had written regarding the one true shepherd (Christ) as contrasted with the Roman bishop who seeks essentially to usurp that role (link to my post). In response, I have received some rather typical comments. Rather than beginning by characterizing the response, let me provide it to you: In my reading of Catholic literature, I have never came across

Response to Jay Dyer on Calvinism (Part 5 of 13)

TurretinFan, February 3, 2009, Roman Catholicism

This is part 5 of the thirteen part series in response to Jay Dyer. The previous part may be found here (link). Jay Dyer says: 4) “ A tri-theist, because God the Father cuts off His own Son in the crucifixion (and maybe the Holy Spirit as well?): but Jesus, in all orthodox Trinitarianism, shares the

“Upon this Rock.” – Jesus Is Speaking TO Peter ABOUT the “Rock”

James White, May 30, 2008, Roman Catholicism

Robert Sungenis and evpi. tau,th The book, Jesus, Peter & the Keys, attempts to provide responses to some of the arguments that have been put forward against the unique, and sometimes very strained, exegetical claims of Rome. In particular, this book often cites Robert Sungenis, a Westminster Seminary graduate, as their primary source of Greek scholar. While we are unaware

This Isn’t Your Father’s Mormonism: The LDS Church is Embarrassed By Its Own Theology (Part 1)

James White, December 19, 2007, Mormonism

Back when I first started studying Mormonism I encountered a lot of believingMormons. Men and women who actually believed Joseph Smith was a prophet–a real prophet, and that the Book of Mormon was really true, and that the LDS Church had something called Latter-day Revelation which was, well, actually revelation. Evidently, those Mormons are now long gone, at least as

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing: Part Two

Colin Smith, December 12, 2007, Misc

We continue our Christmas meditation, based on Charles Wesley’s hymn Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. Verse Two Christ, by highest heaven adored; Christ, the everlasting Lord; late in time behold him come, offspring of a virgin’s womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; hail th’ incarnate Deity, pleased as man with man to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel. Hark! the herald

Harry Potter meets Cornelius Van Til: Part One

Colin Smith, July 20, 2007, Christian Worldview

This weekend, the publishing phenomenon that is Harry Potter reaches its conclusion with the official release of the final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Outside of the millions of people, young and old, who have invested money and hours of online time to these books, there are those, especially within the Christian community who will

Evangelical Apostasy (Part 1)

James White, June 1, 2007, Mormonism

Folks, please read this series, even if you live out East where Mormonism is not that big an “issue.” The complicit cooperation of alleged “evangelicals” in deceiving Christians about the nature of Mormonism represents a trend relevant to all sorts of apologetics issues today. Read on! I have been presenting the statements of LDS leaders (not current BYU academics, but

Bill Webster Responds to Gary Michuta Part I

James White, March 28, 2007, Roman Catholicism

A few days ago I played a clip of my cross-examination of Gary Michuta on the issue of the canon of Scripture. I had noted that Gary had commented elsewhere that he felt “embarrassed” for me at this point in our debate. I personally think the cross-examination went very well, and exposed some very weak replies. In any case, Michuta

Christmas Thoughts on Matthew 1:21-23 (Part 2)

James White, December 23, 2005, Godly Disciplines

Matthew 1:22-23 22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: 23 “BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BEAR A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL,” which translated means, “GOD WITH US.” Modern men, chained so tightly to this earth, to this material realm, with their implicit

An Exegetical Refutation of Art Sippo, Catholic Apologist, on the Subject of the Divine Freedom of God in Salvation as Found in Romans 9 (Part III)

James White, July 22, 2005, Roman Catholicism

I continue with my response to Art Sippo regarding Romans 9. Sippo then cited two very lengthy passages of Scripture, Ezekiel 33:8-20, and the entirety of Romans 2. Unfortunately, he offered not a word of exegesis, and not the slightest interaction with the texts themselves, outside of a grand and sweeping conclusion, In both of these excerpts, the Bible teaches

A Calvinist Responds to Michael Spencer, Internet Monk (Part I)

James White, April 15, 2005, Reformed Apologetics

Michael Spencer, aka “Internet Monk,” wrote an article that has been linked to by a number of folks today, so I felt compelled to respond. Just to do something different, my responses are in blue. I’m Not Like You: An Apologia to My Readers (Calvinists especially) Michael: No, you aren’t. Though we have never spoken, at least to my knowledge,

They Went Out From Us

James White, April 7, 2005, Reformed Apologetics

Evidently there is no “tolerance” amongst the uber-tolerant “Reformed Catholics” for believing that the gospel is what defines the Christian faith. One of their number, who has moved a very, very long way away from where he once stood and from what he once professed, taught, and even preached, recently wrote an article titled “Noisy Gongs and Clanging Cymbals.” In

Further Response to TGE (Part II)

James White, April 5, 2005, Reformed Apologetics

1) Did Hebrews 8 have a meaning when it was penned originally under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God? Yes. (But that meaning isn’t necessarily identifiable with the assured results of the distinctly Modern and scientific type of hermeneutics that Dr. White practices.) What is “modern” about the examination of the text in its original context? Isn’t the

The Catholic Verses: Matthew 23:1-3 (Part VIII–Finale!)

James White, February 18, 2005, Roman Catholicism

But let us hurry to the real issue: Armstrong wrote, “…Christians were, therefore, bound to elements of Pharisaical teaching that were not only nonscriptural, but based on oral tradition, for this is what the Pharisees believed.” Armstrong assumes no distinction between practice, interpretation, or doctrine, regarding the teaching of the Pharisees, ignoring the function of the seat of Moses in