Started off with a discussion of the rise of secular totalitarianism and its inevitable failure, and then moved on to Dr. Paige Patterson’s comments in the SWBTS chapel from last week. Hopefully helpful for all!
Here is the YouTube link:
Started off with a discussion of the rise of secular totalitarianism and its inevitable failure, and then moved on to Dr. Paige Patterson’s comments in the SWBTS chapel from last week. Hopefully helpful for all!
Here is the YouTube link:
Spent some time talking about 1 Corinthians 1:18 and what “being saved” means in like a KJVOist Nathan Rager’s NIV-tossing comments on the passage, discussed more about Marxism, and finished up looking at comments by Graeme Codrington on John Piper’s affirmation of God’s sovereignty over the CV-19 virus.
I really wanted to provide a useful apologetic discussion on the program today, so we started half an hour earlier. I went through some key theological foundations to apologetics from Van Til for the first twenty minutes, then reviewed key elements of the D’Souza/Barker debate. I then finished up with some discussion of Barker’s claims in his book, godless, especially
The abandonment of the belief of Inerrancy in Christian Academia. A discussion on N.T. Wright’s New Perspective on Paul, and an exegesis of 2nd Corinthians 5.
A new book that will be worth your time: For Us and for Our Salvation: The Doctrine of Christ in the Early Church , by Stephen J. Nichols (Crossway, Aug. 2007). Table of Contents: Introduction “Who Do People Say That I Am?”: Christ’s Crucial Question 1 – In the Beginning Was the Word: Christ in the Early Centuries 2 –
Today on the DL I launched into Bart Ehrman’s statement that if the Bible had truly been inspired, there would be no textual variants in manuscripts. Then we handled a few questions on…various subjects, then listened to a little John Shelby Spong. Here’s the program. By the way, who is this guy at the end of this promo clip?
A few years back I posted an article explaining the weak textual evidence of Luke 23:34a, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” This week is Good Friday and many sermons will be using this verse, so I think it is appropriate to bring awareness of its textual nature. Whether you agree with me or
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