(1/2) "The so-called 'problem' of the male Savior is a problem fabricated by minds held captive to the spirit of the age. The male Savior can most certainly save all men and women who believe in him, as the Scriptures testify. The only obstacle to experiencing the saving benefits

Early Irish Baptist, Christopher Blackwood, defining evil works against the light of nature and reason: "The setting up of Muhammad, or any other God besides him that is the creator of heaven and earth; Atheism, when any man shall boldly affirm there is no God, Polytheism, when

Me processing the latest developments eschatologically this week...

The goal in theology is not to approach the Bible without presuppositions or working systems of thought, for this is both impossible and impractical. The aim in theology is that the Bible rules our rules/dogma, so that our theological method is sound.

Ditto. I can remember sitting on my front porch reading these verses about 13 or so years ago now and sensing the weight of Paul's argument and the theological entailment that the church is the eschatological Israel.

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My favorite and most listened to playlist on Spotify is this recording of Johnny Cash reading the NT in NKJV. As someone raised on the NKJV and Johnny Cash, it makes me feel at home. open.spotify.com/playlist/4ReO9…

Christopher Blackwood defining evil works against the light of faith: "The denial of Christ, walking contrary to a mans' own principles, presenting ourselves at false worship, pride, covetousness, unbelief, impenitence, rotten communication, heresy, schism; these I suppose, and

"Subsequent revelation often makes explicit what was only implicit in antecedent revelation." ~Richard Barcellos Things that make you go, hmmm... youtube.com/watch?v=8nKucY…

Put together a mind-map to track with Petty France's helpful distinctions from the OP below. Keeping these categories in place is crucial for a proper hermeneutic and theological method so as to not merely/wrongly infer natural principles have necessary covenantal conclusions.

I loved the connection Pastor Gabe made during his sermon Kenwood Baptist today, that the reason Abraham was willing to offer up Isaac, “concluding God could raise Him from the dead” (Heb 11:18), was because God had already brought about life from his own body which was “as good as

FWIW, Tolkien’s Middle Earth was predicated on gender essentialism. If you need more reasons to likewise hold to GE, see Kyle Claunch and my essay below. ⬇️

Sam Waldron on the messianic parables and the millennium: "In both postmillennialism and premillennialism the negative and positive perspectives about the prospects of the church have often been divided and set at odds with one another. Generally, postmillennialism has

"We contend that being either man or woman is a case of the particularization of an essential property. The essential property being gendered as either male or female can only be particularized as male or female (not both, and not neither)." ⬇️

🎯 Sometimes "I need to read another book to do_______" is code for delayed obedience.

Bullinger on the natural law being the substance of the moral law before Sinai “Let no man think, that before Moses' time there was no law, and that the law was by Moses first of all published. For the self-same especial points of the moral law, which Moses setteth down in the

12. Day. War. If the ceasefire holds, it is a (maybe even the) defining moment of Trump's presidency.

“The Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good