Started off with a brief discussion of the constant problem with Islamic apologetics—the necessary double standard it has to employ to defend the Qur’an on one hand, and attack the Bible on the other. Then we moved back to the Russell Moore/Andy Stanley discussion, once again noting fundamental issues of ecclesiology and Scriptural authority lying at the root of the topic.
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Remember the recent Dividing Line featuring Gerry Matatics and Eric Svendsen? (For those who do not, the blog archive has some notes on it, and you can listen and get the background by clicking here). Given Gerry’s world-famous sense of humor, evidenced by his telling the joke about the day they were going to stone the woman taken in adultery,
Greenville Seminary is hosting a class on Islam the week of September 6-10. The instructor is Anees Zaka is founder and senior missionary of Church Without Wall, based in Philadelphia, PA. He is authored numerous books including this one, reviewed here and this book both published by P&R. You can listen to Zaka preach on “All Hail the Power of
Covered some important topics today. Started with this article on the human genome and the fact that life…really is life! Great stuff. Then discussed the amazing response an evil-saturated society produces to anyone who says something moral (related to this story), then we discussed a story about Muhammad and his wives, then took quite a while to respond to Roger
Today I was joined by Alan Conner, author of Covenant Children Today: Physical or Spiritual? (2007, Reformed Baptist Academic Press). We took many calls on a wide variety of aspects of the subject of baptism.
I took the first portion of the program to analyze the comments made by Minnesota Representative Steve Simon that have become widely distributed over the last few days. Then I began playing some portions of the recent debate between Dr. Smaw and Dr. Michael Brown. Here, also, is the video of the first portion of the program:
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,
An interesting program today where I spent a good deal of time on John 11 in P45, discussing its meaning and the context. Then I moved to Surah 3 in the Qur’an looking at what it says about Jesus. With that as the background, I made some comments regarding the current controversy and the slanderous attacks being leveled at me
Albert Mohler played a clip from Larry King on his Friday broadcast (click here: go 12 minutes in). I will play it on the DL in the morning, but you might want to listen now. Bill Maher openly admits his deep prejudice (if he were a conservative, he’d be a bigot, but we all know liberals cannot be bigots). Oh,
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Well done, James. It was irritating to hear Stanley continually harp on the fact that sinful people will attack the Scriptures as if that, of itself, is something that should cause us fear and trembling. The problem with his approach, as you noted, is that these same folks attack his own premises and reject whatever evidence he provides them.
There is a relevant quote from Bavinck that I think is worth sharing:
“Science, accordingly, has nothing to fear from the supernatural. But every science must remain within the bounds of its own area and not arrogate to itself the right to pose the law of another science. It is the right and duty of natural science to search within its area for the natural causes of phenomena. But, it should not attempt to rule over philosophy when the latter investigates the origin and destiny of things. It should also recognize the right and independence of religion and theology and not attempt to undermine the foundation on which they rest. For at stake here are religious motives for belief in a revelation about which natural science as such cannot make any judgment.”
–Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics 1:371
Stanley seems to think that Natural Sciences has any real voice in the validity of miracles and revelation. It is this failing that, I fear, will lead some to rationalism.
Mike