Perhaps someone can diagnose the fallacy, but I simply describe what happens.
If we take the legendary (though younger than often realized) “TULIP” of “the five points of calvinism,” the fallacy deals with the fourth point.
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Writing to persuade readers to act is not pure logic. Sometimes this raises suspicions. What are those manipulative writers up to? Why not just make the case and be done without all that emotional rhetoric and red type? (I’m just being hypothetical without implying anything good or bad about red type.)
So here is a true [...]
There is a story told of C. S. Lewis, as a small boy — about six or seven, I think. One day he announced to his father,
“Daddy, I have a prejudice against the French.”
“Why?” asked his father, not unreasonably.”
“If I knew that,” replied the precocious youngster triumphantly, “it wouldn’t be a prejudice.”
He was quite right, [...]
So “capitalism” in America largely means corporate welfare and other government favors for corporations. But don’t these groups hide what they are doing behind the capitalism banner. It seems to me that opposing the fascist state in the name of capitialism still makes sense. We want capital to be privatized. We want this raving beast [...]
Is it really any less utopian to work for better government than to work for a better society in general? Would it take any less of a miracle for the Federal Government to serve the good of the commonwealth than it would to get everyone in your neighborhood loving each other and looking out for [...]
Doug Wilson’s quick and obvious response to the RPCNA’s official shamelessness brings to mind how their deliverance is similar to the Libertarian case against war: police shooting into a crowd to get the bad guy. Here is the same principle into our ecclesiastical condemnations. “Kill’em all; let God sort’em out”
Thing is: God will sort this [...]
OK, as much as I was impressed with how Jandy used the wordpress template, I’m even more impressed now when I realized I didn’t have time to figure it out. Instead I sat down at my keyboard with the free tacohtml app and spat out this web “business card” with the help of a few [...]
Been awhile since I addressed the topic of preaching on this blog. But if a picture is worth a thousand words, I think this video is more efficient than anything I could write on the subject.
You’ve been warned!
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Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “There is no religious denomination in which the misuse of metaphysical expressions has been responsible for so much sin as it has in mathematics” (Culture and Value). But has anyone committed as much sin against grammar as the professional “anti-FV” theologians?
The latest work of real genius is that one can be called [...]
If you read the literature in books or on the net, you know that people claim there are all sorts of tricks to sales writing.
But a recent visit to Branson, MO on the part of some friends of mine reminded me that it depends on how you define “trick.”
When you are a writer, you have [...]
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There is an evident confusion here between faith as a psychological act, that is, something that you do (in this case, “closing with Christ” as the Puritans used to put it), and faith as a meritorious work, that is, a means of earning God’s favor and inducing his acceptance. When it is argued that [...]
No time to deal with it (Is there any way to deal with the rising tide of darkness? The Reformed ghetto has apparently simply been Pompeii, living on the side of Mt. Vesuvius all along.), but I am linking this post from September 2006 because my sophistry detection meter is spiking into the red [...]
I suppose I should explain why I posted this in an attempt to head off speculation or even assertion on that issue.
I’m worried that some might get the impression that the PCA’s Book of Church Order is supposed to function as an authoritative interpretation of the Scripture. Or that the Presbyterian understanding of Pastors, [...]
At the end of that same article (“Rights of Ruling Elders, Princeton Review, 1843), Charles Hodge notes an interesting facet of American Presbyterian history:
At the time of the formation of our present constitution, there were one or two prominent men in our Church who held the same doctrine, but they were opposed to our [...]
First, in the aftermath of the General Assembly perhaps it would be good to point out this post from a few months ago quoting from the Princetonian Samuel Miller’s classic work, The Ruling Elder.
Then there was Charles Hodge’s article in the 1843 Princeton Review, in which he began cataloging what we knew and (for his [...]
As I’ve reviewed this book, I’ve expressed some frustrations with it. I should point out that the spirit of discussion between opposing views is quite al depravi. The four contributors have modeled Christian dialog. For that I am extremely grateful.
Due to recent discussions, I found it somewhat humorous that the “Classic Arminian,” [...]
I was reading a book on business by one of the more famous freelance writers (while the book was on starting a writing business, the section could apply to any small business start up). The author was giving guidance for how to network at meetings and generate leads. One of his first points [...]
I can’t say much about the accuracy of the whole review, other than that I have found John Frame to be reliable in the past. Since I never read all of Enns’ book, there’s no way I can give any more testimony about it. I did, however, read the first part (which was [...]
(Note: While this entry was still in draft mode, Steve Wedgeworth blogged about a similar tension. It might be helpful to read his post.)
Q. 152. What doth every sin deserve at the hands of God?A. Every sin, even the least, being against the sovereignty,[James 2:10-11] goodness,[Exodus 20:1-2] and holiness of God,[Habakkuk 1:13; Leviticus 11:44-45] and [...]
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