Have you seen the car tag, “I’m spending my children’s inheritance.” Comforting thought. Right? There is one inheritance most children wish had been spent by their parents. The inheritance of a sinful nature. Charles Ryrie calls this sinful state “inherited sin” because it came from our parents. Reformed or Covenant brothers believe this sinful [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Our Sinful Inheritance
Posted: January 24, 2009 in SinTags: Charles Hodges, Charles Ryrie, John Calvin, Mark Driscoll, Total Depravity, Wayne Grudem
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Is the Earth “Young” or “Old?”
Posted: January 17, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", CreationTags: "Young Earth" "Old Earth" Henry Morris, Creation, Davis A. Young, evangelicals, God, Hermeneutics, Praise, science, Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem
THERE is a debate today among evangelicals concerning the age of earth. One view is more sympathetic to scientific evidence than the other. I think the reason for different conclusions about the age of the earth, is the inclusion of the so-called evidence from science into the hermeneutics of Genesis one and two. Both “Old [...]
Review of Chapter Six “Science Has Disproved Christianity” in The Reason For God.
Posted: January 10, 2009 in Book Reviews, CreationTags: A. H. Strong, Answers in Genesis, Atheism, Copernicus, creationism, evolution, Galileo, Gleason Archer, Ken Ham, Millard Erickson, Richard Dawkins, science, Tim Keller, Wayne Grudem
Tim Keller rejects the view of Richard Dawkins who “argues that you cannot be an intelligent scientific thinker and still hold religious beliefs.” But Keller believes the view of a six twenty-four-hour day creation is “fortunately…losing credibility with a growing number of scholars.” In both Dawkins’ and Keller’s view, science has undermined the interpretation of Scripture. [...]
Have you ever been witnessing or just discussing religion with someone who responded with these objections to your view that salvation is exclusively through Christ? (These objections are from part one on chapter one in Keller). “All major religions are equally valid and basically teach the same thing.” “Each religion sees part of spiritual truth, [...]
Emerging Church and Inclusivism
Posted: January 1, 2009 in Emerging ChurchTags: Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Hell, inclusivism, Spencer Burke
The truth of salvation which determines a person’s eternal destiny is too serious to get wrong. Yet many in the Emerging church are wrong on the doctrine of salvation. People in the Emerging church are all over the map when it comes to soteriology (the doctine of salvation), as the following two examples show: Spencer Burke [...]
Is the “Day of the Lord” before or after the Tribulation?
Posted: January 1, 2009 in End Time EventsTags: Day of the Lord, Posttribulational Rapture, pretribulationistist
The Church will be raptured before the Day of the Lord according to the pretribulationalist view and after by the posttribulationalist view. Which is correct? The “Day of the Lord” is a huge OT concept that describes times when God intervenes in history. In Zephaniah 1:14, the day of the Lord refers to the Babylonian [...]
