Today I read some more from Reymond, this time the section on a biblical theodicy, before addressing about two minutes of Paige Patterson’s sermon on Calvinism from 2/2004. Then the phone calls started. Had one call on compatibilism and another on the Mouw situation up in Utah.
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 net has been an inferno of late with everyone choosing sides, circling wagons, loading guns, and opening fire, all, it seems to me, to no avail. I basically spent today exhorting folks to step back, think, breathe, maybe even think about relaxing a bit and listening to viewpoints other than your own. I am sure that advice will be
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Three topics today: first, a clear, unambiguous statement (again) that I do not, and never have, held to any form of EFS/ERAS theology, and if anyone tells you otherwise, they don’t know what they are talking about. Second, is it “every Scripture is God-breathed” or “every God-breathed Scripture is profitable”? And why does it matter? And third, are present tense
Almost made it through, but not quite. Spent the hour listening to, and commenting on, the exchange from Unbelievable. I will finish it up on Tuesday.
James White and Fr. Mitchell Pacwa debate the validity of the Roman Priesthood.
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