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After making the eisegetical comments noted in our previous entry, Hunt writes, Read the entire text again carefully (John 6:35–65). Christ does not say that all whom the Father draws, but all whom He gives to the Son, will come to Him,and He will lose none of them whom the Father gives Him; they will all be raised at the

One way you can detect unfounded tradition masquerading as “biblical beliefs” is to note the prevalence of “this passage can’t be saying this” combined with little or no positive “the text clearly says this” followed by meaningful exegesis. When someone can only tell you what the Bible doesn’t say, but can’t tell you positively what it does, they have a

Last week I replied, briefly, to Eric Svendsen’s comments on particular redemption/limited atonement. My 1000 word response garnered a pretty quick response over three times that length that ended with, “I did not address every point in those articles since my intent for the blog entry was merely to clarify my own position, not take on Alpha and Omega Ministries

So I’m thinking about trying to find some way of wrapping up the What Love is This? series of blog entries, and so I ask myself, “Given that Hunt accused Calvinists of misusing the subjunctive in Debating Calvinism, I wonder if he inserted something relevant to that allegation in this new edition?” A quick search for “subjunctive” in the e-text

I can’t tell you how many of our channel regulars have been asking me, “So, are you going to respond to Eric Svendsen’s comments on limited atonement?” Obviously, Dr. Svendsen’s audience and my own overlap to a large degree, so when Eric makes comments about why he can’t be a full 5-pt. Calvinist (and in the process makes comments about

In examining the “serious exegesis” offered by Osborne in Grace Unlimted of key texts in John we have noted that when Arminians seek to interact with such strong statements of God’s sovereignty they impress an external grid down upon the text that limits its voice and mutes its testimony. We have seen Osborne skim across the top of the text,

Is it really that hard to say, “Wow, man, how did that get in there? That paragraph is just so wrong. Dave had not been feeling well that night, and, wow, we apologize, retract, and in general do penance for having pawned such tripe off on the Christian community as a whole.” But no, evidently, the powers that be at

I simply could not resist responding to some more of the “serious Arminian exegesis” offered by Osborne in the Pinnock edited work, Grace Unlimited (BHP, 1975). Right after the section on John 6 comes a section on John 10:14, 14-18, 27-30. One is once again impressed with the fact that Arminian “exegesis” skims over the top of the text, spending

The source The Berean Call utilized to attempt substantiation of the wild claims about a Hebrew original of Acts 13:48 that is meant to cast doubt upon the actual translation of the passage (all in the service of anti-Calvinism) turns out to be anti-Trinitarian as well. Their statement of faith includes this line: “The Holy Spirit is likened to the

The irony found in these exegetical notes is that the actual wording of the text is always subjugated by the author to an outside interpretational grid that itself would have to be derived from exegesis of other passages, etc. Osborne begins by stating “While there is some truth to the above statements, they for the most part neglect John’s other

This morning I was noting the words of a “I’m such a soft and warm and ecumenical and Catholic Calvinist that I believe in baptismal regeneration and temporary justification and loss of true salvation” attempting to dig himself out of yet another hole he dug himself into by going way beyond the bounds in trying to take shots at yours

It was simply out of place. When I ran into the “Acts 1-15 was written in Hebrew” paragraph in the second edition of What Love is This? it just seemed strange. And now I’m starting to figure out why. It is not that Hunt hadn’t already demonstrated a very sad willingness to not only pontificate upon topics he does not

More on this later this evening, I hope, but the Berean Call has started to send out an e-mail to those asking for the sources for Hunt’s outrageous “redacted Hebrew text prophecied by the Dead Sea Scrolls which just happens, when translated by unnamed scholars, to not teach Calvinism” stuff. As I started looking over the list I immediately recognized