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Calvinism, Arminianism, & Vocabulary
We are going through Christian Theology in Sunday school, and this week we were covering both the similarities and differences between Calvinism and Arminianism. We focused on two passages in Ephesians...
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The Death of John Owen’s Argument
In the Death of Death in the Death of Christ (1647), Dr. John Owen offers a famous argument for a limited atonement. This argument appears at the end of Book I, chapter 3 (link) and seems to force the...
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The Death of John Owen’s Argument: a General Atonement means God failed to...
In the Death of Death in the Death of Christ (1647), Dr. John Owen offers a famous argument for a limited atonement. That was explored in another post. In chapter 1 of Book I there is another challenge...
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The Death of John Owen’s Argument: a General Atonement means God failed to...
It's been awhile, but here is part 2 addressing the Death of John Owen's Argument for a limited atonement Continue reading →
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The Death of John Owen’s Argument: a General Atonement means God failed to...
In part 1, we examined Owen’s contention: Christ’s death does not make salvation possible. It actually and infallibly applies the benefits of the cross to everyone that Christ died for. This is true,...
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The Death of John Owen’s Argument: a General Atonement means God failed to...
This is part 4 of a series of blog posts examining the arguments John Owen makes for and against a limited/particular atonement in his extensive work on the subject: The Death of Death in the Death of...
View ArticleIf I only had free will (parody)
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?
Regular readers of this blog will know I am an advocate of the Vincentian Canon. This principle, advocated by Vincent of Lérins, during the early to mid fifth century, in the Commonitorium, was given...
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...
View ArticleJustin Martyr the Calvinist? (part 4)
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...
View ArticleJustin Martyr the Calvinist? (part 5)
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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