It is interesting reading this article to find that Gaffin agrees with Wright that those who are truly justified will never ever lose that status. I agree with both of them, but in the case of Wright I think his understanding leads him astray when dealing with the frank warning passages in Romans 11. [...]
I may be guilty of over-characterizing the hubris of the TR report-makers, but if I am, it’s not by much. They are etching lines in the pavement and they are doing it with their Bibles on the shelf.
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Sort of continued from this.
I heard the name, “Mark Laidlaw” in correlation with some sci-fi short stories, perhaps during cyberpunk’s quarter-hour of fame.
Now I realize I have experienced more of his work than I knew:
Mark Laidlaw, it turns out, was the major force behind Half-Life, the best first-person shooter, period. (bios: wikipedia; moby games).
So what [...]
Dr. Clark has done a service for us “fv boys”–as he refers to us in his touching paternal affection. Unfortunately, I can’t own any of the things he lists as they relate to motives, nor even to many of the actual acts he lists. But rather than see all that wonderful ministry go [...]
Most Latino students spurn college loans
Educators fear that a tendency to work their way through school can hurt them academically.
By Francisco Vara-Orta, Times Staff Writer
January 31, 2007
“My parents have always said, ‘If you don’t have the money to pay for it, then work for it,’ ” Fernandez said.
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Educators and financial aid experts said the cultural [...]
This sounds like fun. Here’s an audio interview. She writes stories for games.
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Well new work (sort of; keep praying) has led into interesting areas.
One of those has been the discovery of Scrivener, through 43 folders. Scrivener is a virtual writing studio and looks really good so far. Click on the 43 folders link for Merlin Mann’s review. I downloaded the demo and am enjoying [...]
do you think anything can make him realize the bitter irony in this post?
Incidentally, I think Justin’s blog is really good at keeping up with items of interest to Reformed Evangelicals, and I appreciate many of his insights.
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Lots of conservative Protestants want to answer “no” to this question.
The problem with this position is that conservative Protestants are bound to believe what the Bible teaches. And the Bible says inconvenient things, like “baptism now saves you” (1 Peter 3.21), or “all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. [...]
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1. a. We affirm that justifying faith receives and rests upon Christ and his righteousness held forth in the Gospel for pardon of sin and for the accepting and account of his person righteous in the sight of God for salvation (L 72).
1. b. We deny that justifying faith justifies a sinner [...]
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1. a. We affirm that justification is an act of God’s grace whereby God pardons the sins of those he calls, and imputes the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ unto them (C 11.1 and L 70).
1. b. We deny that God imputes faith itself, the act of believing, [...]
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1. We affirm that all those whom God has predestined unto life, and those only, He calls effectually out of the state of sin and death unto grace and salvation by Jesus Christ (C 10.1).
2. a. We affirm that the reprobate may experience some common operations of the Spirit with the [...]
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1. a. We affirm that God’s eternal purpose was to give a people to Christ as His seed who would be by him in time redeemed, effectually called, justified, and glorified (C 8.1).
2. b.We deny that Christ purchased any temporal saving benefits for the reprobate, even those that are members of the [...]
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1. We affirm that in addition to the covenant of works made with Adam, God made a covenant of grace with Christ as the second Adam and all the elect in him as his seed in order to deliver the elect out of a state of misery and bring them into an estate [...]
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1. We affirm that for man to enjoy God as his blessedness and reward requires a voluntary condescension on God’s part.
2. We affirm that God did make such a voluntary condescension in the covenant of works (C 7, L 20, 22, S 12, 16).
True though some (Meredith Kline for example) don’t [...]
To propound “two-kingdom” public ethics and try to get everyone to follow them is a theocratic activity. It doesn’t matter if it is secularism; if the rationale for secularism is because the Bible teaches it and God is pleased with it then it is theocracy. You are demanding that everyone organize their public [...]
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1. We affirm that every sin both original and actual is a transgression of the righteous law of God and makes him liable to temporal and eternal death (C 6.6).
2. We affirm that the law of God is useful for unbelievers and believers to show them the corruption [...]
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1. a. We affirm that God has appointed the elect unto glory, and that all those who are elect unto glory, and those only, will be redeemed, justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by His power through faith unto salvation (C 3.6).
This is absolutely true and beyond question. But it is also tautological. The only [...]
This post by Jandy about one of the hymn writers in the denominational hymnbook of the PCA is just amazing.
So the question is, was Cowper anomalous?
Possibly yes. If his depression was caused by other factors it might as wrong to blame Calvinism on his despair as it would be to blame Nietszche’s insanity on [...]
Ephesians 2.19 refers to Gentiles but I accidentally stumbled on this, which seems quite interesting.
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