Inerrancy: Recent Overview and a Review
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Among other things, a look at the importance of Westminster Theological Seminary and Vern Poythress’ Inerrancy and the Gospels in the defense of the doctrine of inerrancy. - Ref21
Phil Cooke on his and Jonathan Bock's book: The Way Back: How Christians Blew Our Credibility and How We Get It Back
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“Study after study comes back with roughly the same numbers. Most adults in this country say they believe in God (89%). Only slightly fewer call themselves Christians (70%). But what we say and what we do are two different things.” - Cooke
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Which Plato? Whose Platonism? Summarizing the Christian Platonism Symposium
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“Given these various definitions, some of which explicitly contradict any semblance of a unified definition, Christian Platonism is nearly impossible to define since its commitments have shifted over time. Yet there appears to be a core conceptual agreement of transcendence.” - London Lyceum
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Will We Use Our Creativity in Heaven?
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“God gave people creativity in their unfallen state, which remained but was twisted when we fell. He will surely not give us less creativity in Heaven but more, unmarred by sin, unlimited by mortality.” - Randy Alcorn
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 18)
Read the series.
Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology (3)
3. CT relies upon covenants found nowhere in Holy Writ.
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The Tale of the Two Builders
Recently, our family drove from Washington State to Tennessee, to drop our oldest son off at college. One day, in the wilderness of western Colorado, I spied a shiny new Corvette ahead of me. It was plodding along at about 65 mph on a stretch of interstate where the speed limit was 80 mph. Yet, there he stayed—at 65 mph.
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Winner Announcement: TGC’s Essay Contest for Young Adults
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“I had the privilege of reading the submissions to TGC’s 2022 Essay Contest for Young Adults. Nearly 200 young writers submitted original essays, and the editorial team reviewed them.” - TGC
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Heaven Was Listening
The nation was desperate for leadership.
His improbable but swift ascent to fill the vacuum was as dramatic as it was unlikely. Humanly speaking, it was propelled solely at the behest of a praying mother.
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From the Archives – Church Discipline: The Correction of a Believer or the Excommunication of an Unbeliever? (Part 3)
Harmonizing Matthew 18:15–17, 1 Corinthians 5:1–13, and 2 Thessalonians 3:6–15
(From Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal (DBSJ), Volume 20: 2015. Used with permission. Read the series.)
2 Thessalonians 3:6–15
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the Intersection of Original Writing
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Quillbot “suggests its main use would be for someone to improve their own writing…. Instead of the difficult work of understanding and then putting an author’s words into your own words, this tool allows students to automate the process.” - DBTS Blog
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