“We will begin, then, with the creation of the world and with God its Maker, for the first fact that you must grasp is this: the renewal of creation has been wrought by the Self-same Word Who made it in the beginning. There is thus no inconsistency between creation and salvation; for the One Father [...]
Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category
Subdue It and Have Dominion
Posted in Church, Eschatology, History, Kingdom, Postmillenialism, Theology on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Irreconcilable Paradoxes
Posted in Epistemology, God, Heresy, Logic, Theology, Trinity, Van Til on July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So in this clip, at 1:00, Pastor Mark Kielar stresses that Pastors and Teachers who claim that in Scripture there are Paradoxes that are not reconcilable “even by the human regenerate mind!”, are just tip toeing around the blatantly obvious conundrum that they want to so desperately avoid, and that is saying the Bible has [...]
Always Learning and Never Able to Arrive at a Knowledge of the Truth
Posted in Epistemology, God, Jesus Christ, Theology, Trinity, Unbelievers on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some people claim, mostly Deists, that we just simply cannot know the Truth about God because of who He is. He is Infinite, and we are finite; He is Pure, and we are sinful. Our fallen sinful human minds cannot understand the truth about God, and even if we could, even to the smallest degree, [...]
The Imago Dei and Homosexuality
Posted in Homosexuality, Imago Dei, Theology on May 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“The Imago Dei and Homosexuality”
by Michael Shover
Outline
Introduction
Authority of Scripture
Common Ground – God is Creator and Definer
Total Depravity
The Ever-Continuing Relevance and Binding Nature of the Law of God as Revealed in the Older and Newer Testaments.
The Imago Dei
Male and Female
Family, Dominion, and Society
The Fall and Redemption
Christ and His Church
Homosexuality in [...]
Reformed Catholicity
Posted in Calvinism, Church, Theology on April 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When we say we are “Reformed”, what does that mean? What is being ”Reformed”? The Reformers understood the word as an adjective describing their catholicity. They were “Reformed Catholics.” Since then it has become a noun, we are “Reformed.” That needs to change. Moves toward ecumenism is not a bad thing, and understanding that Jesus wanted [...]
The Restoration of the Image of God in Man and the Implications it has on the Hip Hop Culture
Posted in Imago Dei, Kingdom, Postmillenialism, Theology, Unbelievers, Worship on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Man was created in the image of God. Man was endowed with creative abilities just like God. Being creative is just one way in which man reflects the image of God in himself. Hip Hop is a cultural phenomenon that expresses itself in creative ways. Hip Hop provides a way for unheard, neglected people to just [...]
Thirty-four Theses on Justification in Relation to Faith, Repentance, and Good Works
Posted in Good Works, Justification, Theology on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Rev. Norman Shepherd
Presented to the Presbytery of Philadelphia of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
November 18, 1978.
By nature all men are sinners and are under the wrath and condemnation of God.
There is nothing that any man can do to save himself from condemnation or to contribute to his salvation in any sense or at any point, [...]
The New Covenant & Covenantal Faithfulness
Posted in Covenant, Theology on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“For it is not the hears of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.” Romans 2:13
It seems to me that alot of people are so weary of joining faith and works that they say crazy things that aren’t Biblical, and are yet hidden under the guise of [...]
95 Theses Against Dispensationalism
Posted in Theology on July 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am forbidden to publish this AMAZING theses which totally rips dispensationalism to shreads without express permission from Nicene Council. So, I’ll just link to it instead, and let you read it. Enjoy.
95 Theses Against Dispensationalism
Theology of The Lion King
Posted in Film, Kingdom, Theology on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So Mufasa is the king right. But he dies. Then there is a period of time when the king’s Son is thought to be dead. Nala, when she finds out that Simba is alive, she says it is like he is “back from the dead.” Simba then has a vision from heaven and hears [...]
