Gisbertus Voetius, a Dutch delegate to Dordt and a student of Franciscus Gomarus (1563–1641), Arminius’s leading opponent, referred to the Dominicans as among the “genuine Thomists” who defended “God’s cause against the Jesuits and other recent Pelagians.”

“Part of the problem with Van Til's critique of Aquinas is the rarity of his citations of primary sources.” -John Frame 😬

"There [i.e., in the canonical Scriptures] if anything strikes me as absurd, it is not lawful to say the author of this book held not the truth; but either the Codex is faulty or the interpreter has erred or you do not understand. But in the productions of those who lived

John Owen: Frequent success against any lust is another part and evidence of mortification. By success I understand not a mere disappointment of sin, that it be not brought forth nor accomplished, but a victory over it and pursuit of it to a complete conquest. For instance, when

I love how Brakel subtly defines divine simplicity in it’s purest definition “The decree of God, being an intrinsic act of His will, is not incidental to God, but is the decreeing God Himself.” CRS pg. 196

Apparently Wilhelmus A Brakel and Francis Turretin were closet Molinists

Evil is not a created thing

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What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? A common epistemological principle. St. Paul quite clearly shares the gospel revelation with a PREMISE of natural theology: “for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are

Twofold righteousness was defended as the catholic, patristic and truth Scriptural view of justification by Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians alike. Here beautifully described by the Roman Catholic Cardinal Contarini six years prior to Trent's condemnation of the concept

"For among the things that are plainly laid down in Scripture are to be found all matters that concern faith and the manner of life,—to wit, hope and love, of which I have spoken in the previous book. After this, when we have made ourselves to a certain extent familiar with the

“It is absurd and ridiculous that a mere man who has died, should raise himself from the dead. But that the God-man should raise up his humanity by virtue of his divine power is so far from being absurd that to deny it is blasphemous and wicked.” (Q. XVIII.VIII)

Does anyone find Louis Le Blanc's belief that there is in God a certain knowledge of what would be freely and contingently future under a certain condition before a conception any actual decree in God about future things problematic?

“First, our actions have no intrinsic necessity. Willing is of its own nature (as God created it), mutable and flexible to either side.” —Peter Martyr Vermigli Predestination and Justification

Your own words bite you back Brandon

"although it may be truly said that God concurs to an evil action not effectively but permissively, namely if it is considered formally as evil, or if you precisely consider the viciousness adhering to the act, nevertheless it is also truly said that God concurs effectively to

You hear this as a Protestant and it’s so over 😳😳😳

Netanyahu started this war by attacking Iran. He assassinated Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator, deliberately sabotaging US-Iran nuclear negotiations. The US must not be dragged into another illegal Netanyahu war – either militarily or financially.