What Really Happened at Plymouth
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“Rather than falsely maligning that first Thanksgiving, we should look at it as a model of how things should have been and by God’s grace one day will be.” - Breakpoint
Unstable World, Stable God, Part 3: No Need to Grow
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“…we’re incomplete, undeveloped, short of our potential. We have things to learn. We can always get better at something…. One reason that God doesn’t change is that he doesn’t need any of what we’ve just described. He doesn’t need to grow; he doesn’t need to mature; he doesn’t need to get better at anything.” - Olinger
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Does the Bible teach in Revelation 10:6 that time will cease?
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“First, in Revelation 10:6, “time” (KJV) should be translated “delay.” …Second, in the context of the eternal state, Revelation 22:2 says that the tree of life which bears 12 fruits, will yield its fruit every month….” - Matt Postiff
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Why C.S. Lewis Remains Compelling
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“This week marks the anniversary of both the birth (Nov. 29) and the death (Nov. 22) of C.S. Lewis, one of the most remarkable Christians of the last century.” - Breakpoint
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Ungodly Communication and Unacceptable Worship: What Does Scripture Reveal?
In one manner or another, at least 4 passages in the NT instruct us about ungodly communication:
Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 23)
Read the series.
Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology
9. Though they would consciously deny the charge, it is undeniable that CT ‘s way of reading the Bible (as above) creates a major problem philosophically in that it strongly implies that God equivocates. More seriously still, the manner of equivocation means that equivocation belongs to the essential nature of the Godhead.
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In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration (Book Review)
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“As a theistic evolutionist, Craig accepts without critique the evolutionary consensus, believing that God used the process of evolution to bring about biological diversity. However, unlike many theistic evolutionists, he affirms the actual historical existence of an original human pair” - Eikon
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“The Christian Church in America has seen a renewed interest in modified versions of theonomy”
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“Theonomy is utterly dependent upon the embrace of a postmillennialism that inevitably demands the implementation of a Christian theistic ethic into the fabric of every society. This makes nearly every form of theonomy a present non-reality that is dependent on a misconstrued eschatological hope.” - Nicholas Batzig
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American Church, Don't Listen to Eric Metaxas - A Review of ‘Letter to the American Church’
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“While Metaxas often acknowledges the influence of the ‘great Charles Colson’ (6, 43), he seems to reject the counsel of Colson, who wrote, ‘If we have learned anything in recent decades, it is that we should not roll out heavy-handed political movements that recklessly toss around God-and-country clichés and scare off our secular neighbors.’” - TGC
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Baptists, Slavery, and the Road to Civil War
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“Just as Baptists disagreed on seemingly everything else, they did not view slavery in precisely the same way — even in South Carolina.” - London Lyceum
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