Summer Vacation (Sort of…)

Regretfully, today will be the last day that I will have daily access to the internet.  Unless things change in the near future I will not be able to contribute much to this blog or any interactions.  Hopefully, I will still be able to post every now and then but will probably not allow comments on those posts [...]

Strong Patristic Agreement With the Standard Arminian Approach to Rom. 7:14-25

Read the article at The Arminian magazine on-line: The Patristic Interpretation Of Rom. 7:14-25 Part 1, The Early Christian Witness to the Arminian Interpretation Note:  While this represents the typical Arminian interpretation of Rom. 7 going back to Arminius, not all Arminians subscribe to this basic interpretation.  Robert Picirilli, for example, is one Arminian exception and takes [...]

John Calvin Goes to Berkeley (Book Review)

James G. McCarthy’s John Calvin Goes to Berkeley is an enjoyable book that deals with an important contemporary issue: the growth of Calvinism, especially among young people.  The setting is the famed University of California where some Calvinist members of a campus ministry are starting to make their presence known by putting pressure on the [...]

John Wesley’s “A Dialogue Between a Predestinarian and his Friend”

Be sure to check it out at SEA.  Wesley had a knack for concisely cutting to the heart of a matter.  I also highly recommend his “Predestination Calmly Considered”, another excellent Arminian Polemic against the fundamental teachings of Calvinism.

John 6 Link Fixed

I noticed that several people were visiting this post on John six which directs the reader to Robert Hamilton’s excellent essay on election in John 6.  Unfortunately, Hamilton’s site has gone down (as have all geocities websites).  Thankfully, SEA has saved most of Hamilton’s essays, including his essay on election in John’s gospel.  In time, we [...]

The Transfer of Nonsense Principle

A concept that’s gained some popularity among Determinists is that God’s foreknowledge is incompatible with libertarian free will. One proponent of this idea is Dr. Linda Zagzebski, who has published works arguing this concept based upon the ‘Transfer of Necessity Principle’ (TNP) Necessarily Non-Transferrable The basic argument can be understood from a determinist dilemma by [...]

A Disturbing Article on the Possible Effects of Some Versions of Eternal Security Doctrine

This article by Jeff Patton is truly disturbing.  It reminds me of a tape I listened to once of a young woman who called the Bible Answer Man show and said she was contemplating suicide.  She had concerns about Scriptures like Hebrews 6 and 10.  It seemed that those passages were the only things keeping her [...]