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Can You Prove Calvinism to be True Apart from Pauline Scriptures?

by Roger Servin 11.19.2009

Les Lanphere has decided to try and prove Calvinism without using scriptures written by the Apostle Paul.  I like this and think it’s a good challenge since he brings out scriptures found in the gospels and non-Pauline epistles.  So if you’re one of those who say that we only get our theology from Paul, then [...]

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Thinking Deeply With Kevin DeYoung: Can God Know Everything and Still Give Us Free Will?

by Roger Servin 11.07.2009

One thing that I like to do is challenge you, the reader of this blog to think deeply about God.  One of the reasons for this is because I feel as though I was not challenged in this area the first 8 years or so in my Christian walk.  I believe that I’ve been deprived [...]

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Dr. James White Refutes Middle Knowledge

by Roger Servin 10.24.2009

Last night Dr. James White spoke at Trinity Reformed Baptist Church and he gave two talks, one on God’s providence and the other was an explanation and refutation of Middle Knowledge (Molinism) which is apparently being advocated by none other than William Lane Craig himself.
I was there last night, and so I thought it only [...]

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Roger Olson Challenges Calvinists

by Roger Servin 10.13.2009

As I read Mark Talbot’s chapter on God and suffering in Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor) a thought occurred to me:
Since most Calvinists are harshly critical of the novel The Shack (which takes a similar approach to theodicy as Greg Boyd in Is God to Blame?) because [...]

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Based on His Sovereign Choice or Ours?

by Roger Servin 07.23.2009

There’s always alot of talk going around the blogosphere on unconditional election and free will. It doesn’t seem like it will ever end… and rightly so, its a very important topic and there are many differing opinions on it. Calvinists hold to God’s sovereignty, in order to attribute all the glory to Him, and Arminians [...]

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