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Leadership: Electronic Giving in a Church of Christ

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Jay F Guin

We live in an age when most middle or upper class people pay bills by computer, electronically, and everyone else uses cash. Checks are very nearly obsolete. Ask most people in your church how many checks they write a month, and … Continue reading →

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Leadership: Communications

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Jay F Guin

I’m taking a one-week pause from the Salvation 2.0 series. I thought we might instead talk about church leadership. Somewhere near the top of the work of a church leader is communication. I like to think of elders and church … Continue reading →

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Salvation 2.0: Part 3.19 The Principalities and Powers

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Jay F Guin

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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