In a recent podcast, Dr. Owen Strachan unloaded a volley of texts in favor of eternal subordination of the Son (to the Father). Using John 3:16 as an example, I want to show Strachan's use of it subtly identifies God with God's works.
What does the Bible say about consuming alcohol?
Traditionalism is today's fad. It should be subjected to careful scrutiny. A final analysis will reveal that traditionalism is nothing but the same zeal without knowledge with which Paul charges the Jews in Romans 10.
How does Scripture itself think of philosophy and its relationship to our theology?
There is a very qualified way in which theologians have used the term "motion" in relation to God we should all be aware of.
From James White to Jeff Johnson, the assertion that each Person of the Trinity possess their own distinct self-consciousness, or self-awareness, is being taken for granted. We should deny this with all vehemence.
Hopefully, I can make some clarifications here and help my interlocutors understand where the classical theists are coming from.
There are some theological assumptions we must make and readily accept in the biblical interpretational enterprise, e.g. a doctrine of God.
The fourth (and final) part of my YouTube response to James White.
The third part of my YouTube response to James White.
The second part of my YouTube response to James White.
Part one of my YouTube response to James White's comments on my Facebook post.
Exegeting James 1:17 , contra process theists.
Lately, it has been the fad to out Thomism as another step toward Romanism. But such a fad is leading many not to differ with Thomas so much as it's leading them to deny Augustinian theology proper, which has always been understood to be nothing short of apostolic doctrine.
Why must we maintain strong theology proper in terms of immutability and simplicity? Because the rejection of it is also the rejection of all objective meaning.
Jettisoning truth because of its association with a person is a fatal mistake for any theologian to make, as is hopefully made obvious here.
Why does it seem like the doctrine of God is being relegated to a secondary or even tertiary issue?
William Lane Craig's article on the historical Adam is set to make a splash, even before his book on the matter publishes. While he affirms a historical Adam, he gets there through the natural sciences rather than the text of Holy Writ—choosing instead to mythologize most of Genesis 1-11.
Lots has been said about what the historically Reformed believed concerning man's reason and its use of natural theology. Hear from Francis Turretin how the Reformed of his day viewed natural theology and its relationship to supernatural theology. Also, Turretin gives (5) present uses for natural theology in this life.
An article by Dr. Jeffrey Johnson denies the doctrine of immutability.
Dr. Owen Strachan has shot more than one canon ball over the bow of those who have departed from theistic personalism and presuppositionalism. These shots over the bow have been quite embarrassing from a scholarly perspective, to say the least. In this video, I will once more labor to demonstrate the natural theology of the Reformers and the post-Reformed, much of which is in continuity with Thomas and other medieval thinkers.
In this last part of my two-part mini series on natural theology, I will look at natural theology as it appears in the Savoy Declaration, the 2nd London Baptist Confession & Keach's Catechism.
In this first installment of a two-part special, I will look at natural theology as it appears in confessional Reformed orthodoxy. In the next part, I will look at the natural theology of Particular Baptist confessional orthodoxy.
The new birth is obviously redemptively significant, but it is also thematically significant tying, as it were, all of Scripture together. How can we begin to think of the new birth along these lines? Website: joshsommer.org Affiliate: reformedpodcasts.com
Why do we not ask, "Why is the government behaving the way it currently behaves? What is its motive?" We ask this question in everyday scenarios, but why leave the greatest earthly institution untouched by the question of motive?
Slavery is not an intrinsically sinful concept, but how it has appeared throughout history at various times has indeed been sinful.
Defending limited atonement from the New Covenant (covenant of grace).
In what sense(s) is earth and heaven distinguished in Scripture? Is it always a material separation?
Is it right to say we should make the gospel look good? Isn't the gospel good in itself? Isn't this seeker-sensitive, Arminian language?
This episode is in response to a great question from Jacob on YouTube. What do we do if a "recovering" Lutheran wants to join a Baptist church? Do they need to be baptized if they've been sprinkled?
