"Thomas told me to do so": Another Young Protestant Crosses the Tiber

Filings

“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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God’s Limits Are a Sign of His Power

Filings

“1. God cannot contradict His own character…. 2. God cannot lie…. 3. God cannot change…. 4. God cannot be tempted and cannot sin…. 5. God cannot be unjust.” - Randy Alcorn

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The Beauty of Divine Simplicity

Filings

“When God revealed Himself to Moses at the burning bush He identified Himself as being—the ‘I am’ (Ex. 3:14). Unlike everyone else, He is not from somewhere or the fruit of ancestors. He is not even a species within a genus.” - Credo

Related: I AM: Simplicity - P&D

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Does God Repent, or Doesn’t He? Part 2: Toward an Answer

DOlinger

What do we make of the fact that the Bible says both that God repents and that he doesn’t?

I think the key to what’s going on here comes from the passage about God’s rejection of King Saul. I don’t know whether you noticed this in the previous post, but this event appears in both the list of statements that God doesn’t repent and the list of examples of his repenting.

In other words, the passage says both that God doesn’t repent and that he does.

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Does God Repent, or Doesn’t He? Part 1: The Question

DOlinger

In a previous post I meditated a bit on the prophets’ repeated description of God as “one who relents concerning calamity” (Jonah 4.2). And as I noted at the time, that assertion introduces what appears to be a significant theological problem.

The Scripture says repeatedly that God does not repent:

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Hymns for the Attributes of God

Filings

“Church Works Media has a helpful resource for pastors and those who plan worship services: a topical list of hymns. In a similar spirit, I wanted to share a list of hymns that we either sang or considered singing in connection to a series I preached on the attributes of God.” - DBTS Blog

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In Awe of God’s Omnipresence (Part 3)

Paul J. Scharf

Read Part 1 and Part 2.

Will the Holy Spirit Leave During the Tribulation?

Sometimes 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 is used to teach that the Holy Spirit will be removed from the world before the tribulation begins. But how can this be true in light of the doctrine of omnipresence?

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In Awe of God’s Omnipresence (Part 1)

Paul J. Scharf

Orthodox Christians have confessed throughout the centuries of church history that God exists eternally in three co-equal Persons—each possessing one glorious nature, essence, substance, being or “form” (Phil. 2:6). Each of the three, while distinct from the other two, fully possesses all of the attributes (sometimes called perfections) of the “Godhead” (Rom. 1:20).

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