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Free Will, Frankfurt, and the Force
When Kenobi waves his hand and convinces the stormtrooper that these aren't the droids he is looking for who was responsible - a look at moral responsibility & free will... Continue reading →
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Why doesn’t God present the Gospel so all will believe?
Came across an old post (2006) by Sam Storms today as I was drinking my coffee. Storms, a Calvinist and contributor to Parchment & Pen, notes that the two traditions – Calvinism and Arminianism –...
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Life is like a …
On one of the Society of Evangelical Arminian (SEA) forums, we were exploring illustrations on how we might describe the world, specifically how can we describe the interactions between God’s...
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What is the Full Gospel according to Calvinism?
In an interview, posted in October on the Desiring God site, John Piper was asked: Can an Arminian preach the gospel effectively — Christ and him crucified? This question was prompted by Charles...
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I could make a decision not bound by decreed precision I’m certain to fulfill. Nor would I be a puppet, strings pulled like Jim Henson’s muppet if I only had free will I’d unravel just whose to blame,...
View ArticleBook Review: Free Will Revisited by Robert Picirilli
Opening my inbox, I saw an email that caused me to pause. The subject line was Arminian Theology and the author was Robert Picirilli. Expecting anything but an email from the noted theologian of that...
View ArticleJustin Martyr the Calvinist? (part 2)
Michael Horton on Justin Martyr Michael Horton, in his book Putting Amazing Back into Grace, writes the following in the appendix (link): Not only does Scripture speak definitively in proclaiming God’s...
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C. Matthew McMahon of A Puritan’s Mind on Justin Martyr Another author, C. Matthew McMahon, makes it quite clear that any article or post suggesting that the early church did not hold to the Reformed...
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Another quote, used to assert Justin held to unconditional election, is take from chapter 131 (link). through whom we are called to the salvation prepared beforehand by the Father, are more faithful to...
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Summary This post was not an attempt to examine the Reformed doctrines of grace in detail, nor to argue for or against them. It was written to share some research that was done examining whether the...
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