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Category Archives: Theology
Searching for The Third Way: Baptism, Part 4
Let’s now consider what we’ve learned regarding predestination earlier in this series and apply it to salvation and baptism. Perhaps this will give us a deeper Third Way interpretation. When considering predestination, we noted that the New Testament is quite … Continue reading
Searching for The Third Way: Baptism, Part 3
Although I think the baptism verses are powerful and persuasive, the “faith only” verses are powerful and persuasive, too. There are just a lot of verses that promise salvation to all who have faith. Before we get into these, I … Continue reading
Searching for The Third Way: Baptism, Part 2
The case for baptism as the moment of salvation Okay. I’m sure this sounds like odd phrasing, but I’m trying to make a point. No one — no Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant — believes that the saving power is in … Continue reading
Posted in Baptism, Searching for a Third Way, Uncategorized
Tagged All, arminianism, Baptism, calvinism, God outside time
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Searching for The Third Way: Baptism, Part 1
Well, I wasn’t really intending to pick on the Calvinist-Arminian controversies for the entire series, but here’s another place where the two traditions disagree — and another place that needs a Third Way solution. Background The traditional view, going back … Continue reading
Posted in Baptism, Searching for a Third Way, Uncategorized
Tagged All, arminianism, Baptism, calvinism, God outside time
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The Transforming Word: What Were They Thinking?
Maybe I’m wrong, and I’m certainly willing to be corrected, but I’m very unhappy that the ACU Press published The Transforming Word One-Volume Bible Commentary. What were they thinking? I’ve just read the two reviews in the October issue of … Continue reading
Surprised by Hell: Evangelism
I think the disproportionality of the traditional teaching of hell unconsciously hurts our evangelistic efforts. To teach Jesus, we feel the need to teach the need to be saved. From what? Well, from hell. But an everlasting hell of conscious … Continue reading
Posted in Hell, Uncategorized
Tagged All, annihilationism, conditionalism, Ed Fudge, eschatology, evangelism, The Fire that Consumes
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Surprised by Hell: Thinking About Justice
The Mosaic idea of civil justice, that is, justice as administered by the government, was that the punishment should fit the crime — (Lev 24:19-21) If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: 20 … Continue reading
Posted in Hell, Uncategorized
Tagged All, annihilationism, conditionalism, Ed Fudge, eschatology, The Fire that Consumes
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Surprised by Hell: Evaluating the Evidence (extended)
It helps, I think, to take a step back and try to absorb the evidence in the context of the scriptures and Christianity. We have two views: * The traditional view, at least as old as Tertullian (writing from 197 … Continue reading
Posted in Hell, Uncategorized
Tagged All, annihilationism, conditionalism, Ed Fudge, eschatology, N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope, The Fire that Consumes
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Surprised by Hell: Plato and the New Testament
Fudge points out that the question of immortality was a favorite of Greek philosophers. The seminal work on the subject was Plato’s Phaedo, a dialogue on the question that was well-known among First Century Hellenistic people. The debate Plato writes … Continue reading
Posted in Hell, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Cebes, Edward W. Fudge, eschatology, Eschaton, eternal punishment, gehenna, hell, Phaedo, Plato, Socrates, The Fire that Consumes
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Surprised by Hell: Substitionary Atonement
[I’m filling in some gaps in my own research by reading through Fudge’s The Fire that Consumes. I’m posting multiple posts today, as I want to get finished and move to the next topic.] One of the fundamental doctrines of … Continue reading
Posted in Hell, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Edward W. Fudge, eschatology, Eschaton, eternal punishment, gehenna, hell, substitutionary atonement, The Fire that Consumes
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