Tag: traditional
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Applying Paul
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Prov 1:7 (ESV)Recognizing God for who He is and giving Him due reverence as Lord is the beginning of knowledge, not the end of it. This is very different from what most people think today. Even some Christians think that if we just start with what we already know without God, we can show people that God really does exist. From there, we can tell people about who God is. This does not match the verse though. A knowledge of God does not come …
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Sacrificing the Gospel on the Altar of Unbiblical Apologetics
Often so-called objections to the presuppositionalist methodology are downright frightening. Take the article “Always Ready to Give an Answer” written by Caleb Colley.
Under the section on presuppositionalism, Caleb writes the following:
“While the presuppositionalist is right that worldview is important, the presuppositional approach is in conflict with Paul’s prescription of the cosmological argument”
Um…I am sorry?
“the presuppositional approach is in conflict with Paul’s prescription of the cosmological argument”
Now I do not know about other people, but I am left wondering how people prior to Paul came to know that God exists without Paul being alive to present …
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In the Church but not of it…
Sometimes it is as if no matter where I go, I cannot cease to be in the world.
Duh.
Where else would I be? Now, certainly I could lock myself up in my house or my closet…maybe move to Phoenix, Arizona and be an ascetic (oh wait, people actually LIVE out there!), but for the most part I am going to be in the world. That is not the difficult part of the little cliche, “We are to be in the world, but not of it”.
Being in the world does not mean living ungodly, saying stupid things, mutilating your …