“...what if doing work is part of what it means to be human?”
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“There are people made in the image of God whose vocational gifts tend toward manual labor and craftsmanship. It is unhealthy to devalue those gifts in comparison to others.” - The Universal Basic Income and the Theology of Work
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The Cost of the Kingdom
Reposted from The Cripplegate.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his famous Canterbury Tales in the 14th century. One of the stories in this narrative is the Knight’s Tale. As a group of pilgrims is on its way to Canterbury, the knight tells his tale about two rival knights, Arcite and Palamon, both vying for the hand in marriage of a fair maiden, Emily. The knights face each other in a public tournament for her hand. Both seem to want victory, but…
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A Few Good Men
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“But in fact there are people whom God has deemed to call good because His salvation has made them good. His Word records a number of examples…” - GARBC
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David Bentley Hart’s Lonely, Last Stand for Christian Universalism
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In his new book, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, “Hart is no longer countering unbelief—as in Atheist Delusions (2010)—but is now in all-out war with fellow Christians believers who hold to traditional views on heaven and hell.” - TGC
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Is Middle Knowledge Biblical? An Explanation
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“Among the more academic and influential contemporary advocates of Molinism are Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig (who has proposed that Molinism is the key to a Calvinist-Arminian rapprochement)….If you have not yet encountered it, there is a good chance that either you or one of the members of your church will. ” - Ref21
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A Biblical Teleological Argument for Identity, Sex, and Sexuality, Part 3
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Moral Prohibitive View (Legality Theology)
For the Roman Catholic thinker, the Moral Prohibitive View is a good fit. Historical tradition is clear about the moral illegality of homosexual activity:
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From the Archives: Fulfilling God's Law by Walking in the Spirit
The God of the Bible is presented without apology as a law-issuing God who expects us to be law-keeping people. God does not ask permission to assert Himself as the arbiter of human ethics (Gen. 2:15-17). He determines for His creatures the standard of right and wrong and we are duty-bound to know His commandments and honor them.
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Does the Gospel Depend on a Young Earth?
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“Scripture plainly teaches that salvation is conditioned upon faith in Christ, with no requirement for what one believes about the age of the earth or universe. … people sometimes assume then that it does not matter what a Christian believes concerning the supposed millions-of-years age for the earth and universe.” - Ken Ham
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