Just caught this in the combox of a recent post:
Gentle_Savior,
For the record, I don’t claim to know if Mormons are saved or not. I don’t know enough, and am not an authority on the subject. I love and respect my Mormon friends, even though I think they are seriously mistaken on many issues. My Mormon [...]
My youngest just announced that she was going to be Bob Ross, and she was going to paint on her carcass.
I think she meant “canvas.” At least, I hope that’s what she meant.
Take eleven minutes and watch this. This man is giving us a dramatic reading of Hebrews 9-10 from memory. Talk about bringing Scripture to life!
From Paul in Romans:
Romans 5:12-21 Listen
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned [...]
[Music here.]
Jesus, merciful and mild, lead me as a helpless child:
On no other arm but Thine would my weary soul recline.
Thou art ready to forgive, Thou canst bid the sinner live;
Guide the wanderer, day by day, in the straight and narrow way.
Thou canst fit me by Thy grace for the heav’nly dwelling place;
All Thy promises [...]
From Touchstone:
Just to set the record straight, I affirm the full historicity of Adam and the Fall. It’s as real and historical and event as ever was, but it’s related to us through symbols and allegory in Genesis, according to my reading.
In regard to this, as discussed and debated in the various posts and comboxes [...]
The following is an email response (lightly revised) to a friend who does not live in the USA. He asked whether I thought America was becoming a police state and cited a recent incident as perhaps an indication of this trend.
Oh yeah, yikes, the UCLA taser incident was kinda big news here, too. [...]
Thanks again for your thorough response.
I’ll just make a few brief points:
1. After reading your comments, it appears you’re working with a false or erroneous definition regarding allegory and symbolism (or typology). More often than not, you seem to use the terms “symbolism” and “allegory” interchangeably. By definition, an allegory is not literal [...]
Thanks for the response.
Sorry I’m a bit rushed as it’s Thanksgiving. But please don’t mistake my curtness for rudeness. I’m just in a hurry.
I should also state at the outset that I see you’ve responded to Gene. But I’ve unfortunately not (yet) read your response to him. So, if you’ve already [...]
[The following is the latest post in an ongoing discussion with the Evangelutionist aka Touchstone over at Triablogue. I began commenting here, then here, then here, and finally here. But it'd probably be best to start here and work your way to the latest discussion.]
Hi Touchstone,
Thanks again for the comment. I appreciate [...]
Today is the 43rd anniversary of CSL’s death. Prof. Michael Haykin shares his thoughts.
Much to our surprise… well, check out our profiles, and look under “Blogs.”
Charlie
Patrick
(For those who can’t figure out what this means… it means we’ve both been added to Triablogue. Good gravy, we’re actually T-bloggers.)
I (Charlie) don’t plan to post much over there unless I really feel like I have something huge to say. [...]
For what it’s worth, I’ve been interacting (however feebly) with the Evangelutionist over at Triablogue. Ed.: and Steve Hays called Patrick stylish, intellectually agile, and clear-minded to boot.
Update: Whoa! That is awesome that Steve wrote that. I think he is far more gracious in his words about me than is warranted by [...]
Here’s something I’d like to throw out for discussion (with due trepidation, remember past discussions):
What does this verse mean?
Deuteronomy 12:32
32 [1] “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. (ESV)
Footnotes
[1] 12:32 Ch 13:1 in Hebrew
Does this mean:
Do not add to God’s commandment, [...]
I am sometimes surprised by the company in which I find myself on people’s blogrolls. (If you followed the dead horse post and its comments you may remember Gojira.)
Here’s a good quick overview of how Christians should vote.
Not what my hands have done
Can save my guilty soul;
Not what my toiling flesh has borne
Can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do
Can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers,
And sighs and tears
Can bear my awful load.
Thy work alone, O Christ,
Can ease this weight of sin
Thy blood alone O Lamb of God,
Can [...]
More often than not I find Amazon reviews to be nearly useless. And sometimes I find them to be even worse than useless.
Take the following case. In a review of the book Darwin Strikes Back, one reader comments:
Considering that the ID movement pretends to be science-based and unconcerned with religion, their propensity for [...]
To the Jew first. Converted Israel, he declared, will give life to the dead world … just as we have found, among the parched hills of Judah, that the evening dew, coming silently down, gave life to every plant, making the grass to spring and the flowers to put forth their sweetest fragrance, so shall [...]
Phil Johnson called my T-blog fix “brilliant.” I think I’d better start working on something for IE soon, and then maybe we can make this part of the T-blog template and everybody can use it.
Just thought I’d point out a forum known as the RSQUBF LiveJournal Community (which also has a main website) for those interested in the truth about the University Bible Fellowship (UBF). I’m not entirely sanguine about some of the remarks made there, and how they’re made, but perhaps the remarks I have in mind [...]
A thoughtful article on depression (PDF). HT: Justin Taylor.
OK, I have finally done what I’ve been threatening to for a while, and created a bare-bones Greasemonkey script to clean up Steve Hays’ lack of HTML prowess on Triablogue.
Install Greasemonkey (I tested this in Firefox 2.0, it may very well work in and 1.5.x), then install triablogue.user.js, then see if you like it.
It makes [...]
From the “somebody else who doesn’t get it” files: “the Word has stagnated into words about Jesus.“
The following paragraph is excerpted from J.C. Ryle’s book Holiness:
I admit fully that man has many grand and noble faculties left about him, and that in arts and sciences and literature he shows immense capacity. But the fact still remains that in spiritual things he is utterly “dead,” and has no natural knowledge, or [...]
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