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About Jay F Guin

My name is Jay Guin, and I’m a retired elder. I wrote The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace about 18 years ago. I’ve spoken at the Pepperdine, Lipscomb, ACU, Harding, and Tulsa lectureships and at ElderLink. My wife’s name is Denise, and I have four sons, Chris, Jonathan, Tyler, and Philip. I have two grandchildren. And I practice law.

Salvation 2.0: Part 3.19 The Principalities and Powers

David Bentley Hart’s argument insists that a good God making a good Creation from  nothing (ex nihilo) must bring his Creation to a good end. Perpetual conscious torment (PCT) of  rational beings — humans — is not a good end. … Continue reading

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Salvation 2.0: Part 3.18: David Bentley Hart’s “God, Creation, and Evil,” Part 11

So, to wrap up, I don’t buy the Universal Reconciliation Argument. Neither do I agree with the traditional Perpetual Conscious Torment of the damned position. Rather, I’m sold that Edward Fudge is right in teaching Conditionalism, that is, that the … Continue reading

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Salvation 2.0: Part 3.17: David Bentley Hart’s “God, Creation, and Evil,” Part 10

Available Light So this inevitably brings up the question of “available light” — the theory that God saves those who’ve never heard of Jesus, at least, those who are good people. I debated this question with Al Maxey back in … Continue reading

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Salvation 2.0: Part 3.16: David Bentley Hart’s “God, Creation, and Evil,” Part 9

Pre-resurrection Gentiles, again If I’m right that the sinned-against deserve justice from God, then we have to admit that, so far as the scriptures reveal, there is no justice pre-Jesus. If the evil people of the pre-Jesus Gentile world simply … Continue reading

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The Role of Women at Wineskins; The rest of the posts

The last two posts of my series on the role of women are now posted. The first two dealt with 1 Cor 14:33b-35. The second two deal with the Holy Spirit and what authority comes from the giftedness that comes … Continue reading

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Salvation 2.0: Part 3.15: David Bentley Hart’s “God, Creation, and Evil,” Part 8

Has Paul prophesied that the Jews will eventually be saved? The hard question is whether God has promised that the Jews will enter the Kingdom sometime  in the future. N.T. Wright says no — It is at this point, of … Continue reading

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The Role of Women at Wineskins

I’ve begun a brief series at Wineskins responding to Matthew Morine’s article in the September issue of the Gospel Advocate available at  “The Feminist Agenda Within the Churches of Christ.” The gist of Matthew’s argument is that the giftedness of … Continue reading

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Salvation 2.0: Part 3.14: David Bentley Hart’s “God, Creation, and Evil,” Part 7

The fate of the Jews Now, I suppose I should address whether the Jews are a special case. And the great theologians differ. But I think we can lay a few principles down pretty clearly, even if we can’t answer … Continue reading

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Salvation 2.0: Part 3.13: David Bentley Hart’s “God, Creation, and Evil,” Part 6

Justice vs. forgiveness Ah, but there is a problem with Wright’s thesis. The saved — Christians — will have the opportunity to forgive those who’ve sinned against them, thereby releasing themselves from the hold that the sin of others has … Continue reading

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Email Issues

I have over 1400 email subscribers, and I’ve received four or five messages that emails aren’t getting through and about that many confirming that email is working. Of course, people who gave up on the site due to email failure … Continue reading

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