As is well established by now, I have struggled with reading Karl Barth because of his unrepentant lifestyle. But the reality, which is also well noted by many, is many of our most cherished Protestant and otherwise theologians from the past were also sinners; even to the point of dying in unrepentance. For me what’s […]
If you’re on theological Twitter you will have noticed an uptick in discussion surrounding a doctrine known as preterism. Gary DeMar, a thought leader who has always been on the fringe of the fringe of Theonomic (or reconstructionist) Postmillennial theology has apparently ‘converted’ to a heresy known as full preterism (which the kids nowadays are […]
The Gospel, the Incarnation is a miracle not of this world. This is why abstract philosophical constructs cannot handle the weight of the Gospel, they end up distorting it. The Gospel comes with its own rationality, one that is funded by the miracle of the Incarnation. The rationality of this world, of the type that the ancient […]
Non-Christians often fail to recognize that for the genuine Christian being a Christian isn’t a political posture, it isn’t a societal construct, but instead, it is the very essence and fabric of who we are in Christ as human beings. You can’t deconstruct something that is grounded in the indestructible life of the risen God […]
The following is a blog post I first posted in September 18th, 2009. I posted this at another blog of mine from back in the day. I think what is really important to understand is that if the student doesn’t understand the entailments of classical Federal or Covenantal theology, they won’t grasp the weight of […]
Εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων, καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν κύριον, Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord . . . Hebrews 12:14 ὄψεται (lexeme: ὁράω), translated in the NKJV above as ‘will see’ is in the future tense third person middle indicative. I have a theological-exegetical […]
I was planning on writing a blog post on what death is; what Incarnation Anyway entails; and life everlasting. But for lack of energy, and time at the moment, I am going to simply post three separate Facebook/Twitter posts I just posted; as you’ll see they are thematically related. It was really prompted by a video I […]
Being a genuine Christian theologian starts at the point that we become Christians. The same confession made to become a Christian, is the same confession that remains as the ground of our theological witnesses as Christians. The fact of our sin never leaves us. We are constantly sinning, and the person who says otherwise “is […]
I’ve been having an exchange on Facebook with a Lutheran orthodox interlocutor. We remain friendly, and have over the years, but clearly we’re going to disagree over Barth. What remains of issue for many (including myself) is the continuous infidelity of Barth’s life with Charlotte Von Kirschbaum. If I hadn’t so ingested the theological themes […]
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