Category: Bible

  • Wrestling with the TULIP

    Today I am looking at the baptism of John and the TULIP of the Calvinists. These verses seem problematic to the Calvinistic position with respect to the I in the TULIP: Luke 7:29-30 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees…

  • Stanley Hauerwas

    Interesting blog on Hauerwas and the Bible Gestapo. After reading Hauerwas in seminary and in the process acquiring a critical dislike for the contents of his writing, this critique comes as a breath of fresh air. The inconsistencies of Hauerwas are equally invisible to his disciples and obvious to his critics. Hauerwas is an advocate…

  • Unilateral or Bilateral Forgiveness

    Is forgiveness contingent upon repentance? If God forgives based on repentance, should we also forgive based on repentance? Or should we forgive even where the other person refuses to repent? On first thought, the idea that we need to always forgive regardless of whether the other person repents seems right but does it stand up…

  • Love Between Members of the Trinity

    How about a discussion of the love that the members of the Trinity have for each other?

  • Resurrection of the Flesh

    I just read the first half of N. T. Wright’s book, The Resurrection of the Son of God which is a defense of the historical view of the resurrection of Christ. The book also defends the historical view of the resurrection of the believer. Wright makes a compelling case for the physicality of the resurrection…