A message to the if-I-could-just-see-a-miracle crowd
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“…all these examples showcase people who directly observed astounding miracles and were unfazed by them. How could that happen?” - Robin Schumacher
The “Active Obedience of Christ”: An Intrusion into Baptist Life?
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“Occasionally, some well-meaning Baptists have asserted that belief in both the active and passive obedience of Christ as the ground of our justification is something foreign to Baptist life… is this understanding of the active obedience of Christ something new to Baptist life or is it rather something that many Baptists have affirmed from the early decades of Baptist history?” - DBTS Bl
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Incompatible Trajectories (Creation vs. Evolution)
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“Most old-earth creationists begin with the authority of science. Then they proceed to evaluate the interpretive conclusions of the Bible made by believers.” - P&D
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KJV Defenders Turn Against the Septuagint: A Response to the Reformation Bible Society
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“Leading proponents of Confessional Bibliology have taken another step that the IFB KJV defenders have not… insistence that the Hebrew Masoretic Text has been kept pure in all ages like the New Testament and that therefore modern English and other Bible translations are wrong to use Septuagint readings.” - Mark Ward
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Disingenuousness and “Expansion” Language
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A Plea for Plain Speaking
I am considering this matter of plain speaking in theological discourse, and have noted my dislike of those views which put something in a such way that it is easy to mistake the intentions. We are used to being given the run-around by the cults—for they deal in duplicity—but evangelical brothers and sisters can do this sort of thing too. I only wish to issue a plea for plain-speaking.
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Want to Be a Better Theologian? Realize Your Idiocy.
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“If we want to be better theologians, we must take ourselves less seriously to take God more seriously. When it comes to our knowledge of God, we need to realize we’re all idiots.” - TGC
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Overcoming Our Ahistoric Age: “. . . most people today simply ignore the past.”
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A conversation with the author of Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age (Zondervan Reflective). - TGC
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Podcast: Is Active Obedience anti-Dispensational?
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“Phil Cecil talks with Dr Mark Snoeberger and Dr Ryan Meyer about the Active Obedience of Christ. Some today hold that such a doctrine is unbiblical. They might even say that true Dispensationalists cannot be for the Active Obedience of Christ as imputed righteousness to the redeemed.” - DBTS Podcast
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Disingenuousness and the Problem of the Obvious
I’m going to repost a group of articles I wrote years ago about the God of Supersessionism. I have been having fun lately on ‘X’ with people who want to correct me on my view of the covenants with the usual fodder of ‘the NT reinterprets the OT.’ One of these individuals informed me the “the Covenant” in Genesis 1-3 was plainly in view. When I asked him (repeatedly) to show me this “covenant” he implied I needed to receive the Spirit! Another gentleman who claimed the NT is required to understand the OT was challenged with the five covenants God mentions in Jer. 33.
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Wesleyan Theological Revival?
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“There appears to be a growing number of young people drawn to Wesleyanism and Wesleyan-Arminian theology. Nearly 20 years after the rise of New Calvinism—when ‘Young, Restless, Reformed’ Christians embraced … Calvin” - Juicy Ecumenism
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