As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“The tactic is definitional before it is theological. By establishing progressive sanctification as the exclusive and defining goal of counseling and by embedding “under the authority of the local church” as a structural requirement, Adkins has already determined the outcome of every subsequent argument.” - Worldview Matters
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There’s an argument among conservative Christians over whether we should translate the Bible “literally”—by which the proponent usually means “word for word, so much as is possible in translating from one language to another”—or “loosely”—by which the proponent means “concept for concept.” The technical term for the latter is “dynamic equivalence.”
“Many Christians seem to think that hell is where an unsaved person goes immediately after dying, but it’s not. The church has always affirmed that one day all the dead will be resurrected. Only then will the lost be sentenced to hell as final punishment.5 So, hell is where the unsaved are sent after being raised back to life from the dead.” - Word by Word
“We are not in control of time, so it is vital in life to understand how we must live in the time we’ve been given. God is beyond time. He is eternal, but ‘at the right time Christ died for the ungodly’ (Rom. 5:6).” - Ligonier
“Did the Council of Nicaea invent the divinity of Jesus? Did a group of bishops in the fourth century determine which books belonged in the Bible? These are questions that apologists Wesley Huff and Andy Steiger addressed in the latest episode of their series ‘Can I Trust the Bible?’” - C.Leaders
“Scripture songs will endure, but other music from Earth may also be preserved. If we sing songs in Heaven that were once sung on earth, perhaps we’ll also sing the hymns of people like Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and John Newton.” - Randy Alcorn
“Brewer outlines five views on natural theology in two chapters each: natural theology as (1) informed by natural religion, (2) as proof or argument for God, (3) as signal of transcendence, (4) as Christian natural theology, and (5) as a theology of nature.” - CToday
In my latest blog post, Slavery, Partiality, and Sinful Worship and Entertainment, I present important insights about the current relevance and application of a highly disputed biblical account: the Golden Calf Incident in Exodus 32.
“Few Christians in the eighteenth century wore as many vocational hats, and accomplished as much in so many different fields, as John Witherspoon. The question is whether all these hats held together. I think they did, perhaps just barely, but they did.” - Kevin DeYoung
“many evangelicals do not have the faintest clue what Thomas wrote or taught, and Thomas’s views are in actuality markedly different than those of many born-again believers. Most of us believe that when Scripture teaches us that God is merciful, then we may understand God as such.” - Owen Strachan
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