April 6, 2006

We had been hearing about the arrival of Roger Olson’s book, Against Calvinism, for quite some time. It happened to arrive just before I left for Australia, so I did not have time to do much more than review his comments on 1 Timothy 2:4 (here). I have now returned home, so I got his book recorded to mp3 and

While I was flying to Atlanta on Thursday the hosts of the Pastor’s Perspective radio program, featuring Chuck Smith, received a phone call about election. One of the hosts mentioned yours truly by name, making reference to the following video posted in response to his claim that Calvinism is Christianity without Jesus. He attempts to elucidate his thoughts. Today on

I can’t even start listing the topics. I had 8-10 tabs loaded up and I think we threw a few other topics in for the fun of it. And, given a cold and hence some real difficulty speaking, I didn’t talk quite as fast as normal! But hopefully some useful information anyway.

I started off with a half hour monologue on being of two minds as a Christian, specifically, the conflict that many of us experience in possessing knowledge of “natural science” and the like, and yet seeking to have a Christian worldview that honors God’s revelation and is whole and complete and pleasing to Him. Some folks will find the discussion

Couldn’t exactly avoid the topic of “Marriage Equality” today (a phrase that is so utterly absurd in its meaning that one is left stuttering at its prevalence in society), so we started off there, looking at Ted Olson’s vain attempts to disassociate polygamy (and any number of other perversions of marriage) from his defense of the redefinition of marriage. Then