Sometimes I think guys like John Piper and Ray Comfort just like to split hairs. This video smacks of a bit of hair-splitting as well.
If predestination is true, which it is, then Christ did not receive God's wrath on the cross because those who were called from before the foundation of the world were never appointed unto wrath in the first place.
The trinity is not three individual separated persons of God. Rather, it is three parts of God.
What about the verse that says God couldn't look upon sin?
Jesus had to have spent part of the three days he was dead in Hell because the Bible says he took the keys of death and Hell from Satan.
Friday, May 31, 2013
KERRIGAN SKELLY OBJECTIONS TO BIBLICAL PERFECTION ADDRESSED
As I said below, I believe Biblical moral perfection is not literally never sinning but living, in action and attitude, in obedience to Christ with all the knowledge of how to obey Him that you have.
As far as unintentional sin, I would like to phrase this issue more as unknown sin. We are finite beings. We work on a sin and overcome it, and oftentimes after this God reveals another sin in our lives we didn't fully realize we had a problem with. If we are living with an attitude of wanting God to reveal the sins in our lives we don't yet know we have a problem with, then I think we are on the correct path in Christ and are headed toward that moral perfection.
I don't think every true Christian will obtain full moral perfection in this life, but as long as when we die we are still sincerely walking on that path, making that journey, we will spend eternity with our Lord.
God's law was always in place from the beginning of time; it was just codified at Mount Sinai.
As far as Malachi's accountability, I personally think eight is too young to be truly able to come to Christ. To truly begin your own relationship with Christ, you need to understand and have the level of responsibility where you can grasp that Christianity is for life. You can't just practice it for a few days and forget about it, not like that dog you begged your parents to get you for Christmas. You also have to be able to truly grasp the idea of turning your life around, able to truly recognize the difference between the way most people live and the way Jesus commands us to live. I doubt at eight Malachi has these concepts down.
It strikes me the hypercalvinist objection to the perfection the Bible commands goes back to the Catholic church. We know the whore of Babylon is a giant fallen woman with many faces. The Catholic church is the main face, but she also has thousands of Protestant or Evangelical faces. These faces claim to be different, but they are really all reflective of the Catholic face.
In the Catholic church, one never obtains Biblical perfection. You are taught that you will sin every day all your life, and that if you just confess those sins to a priest and say 50 million "Hail Marys", you are good to go. You may even have to spend time in interim Hell, i.e. purgatory, before you are deemed acceptible to enter Heaven. Strip away the more extreme elements of the confession booth and purgatory, and you have the same bare bones doctrine permeating the church world.
As far as unintentional sin, I would like to phrase this issue more as unknown sin. We are finite beings. We work on a sin and overcome it, and oftentimes after this God reveals another sin in our lives we didn't fully realize we had a problem with. If we are living with an attitude of wanting God to reveal the sins in our lives we don't yet know we have a problem with, then I think we are on the correct path in Christ and are headed toward that moral perfection.
I don't think every true Christian will obtain full moral perfection in this life, but as long as when we die we are still sincerely walking on that path, making that journey, we will spend eternity with our Lord.
God's law was always in place from the beginning of time; it was just codified at Mount Sinai.
As far as Malachi's accountability, I personally think eight is too young to be truly able to come to Christ. To truly begin your own relationship with Christ, you need to understand and have the level of responsibility where you can grasp that Christianity is for life. You can't just practice it for a few days and forget about it, not like that dog you begged your parents to get you for Christmas. You also have to be able to truly grasp the idea of turning your life around, able to truly recognize the difference between the way most people live and the way Jesus commands us to live. I doubt at eight Malachi has these concepts down.
It strikes me the hypercalvinist objection to the perfection the Bible commands goes back to the Catholic church. We know the whore of Babylon is a giant fallen woman with many faces. The Catholic church is the main face, but she also has thousands of Protestant or Evangelical faces. These faces claim to be different, but they are really all reflective of the Catholic face.
In the Catholic church, one never obtains Biblical perfection. You are taught that you will sin every day all your life, and that if you just confess those sins to a priest and say 50 million "Hail Marys", you are good to go. You may even have to spend time in interim Hell, i.e. purgatory, before you are deemed acceptible to enter Heaven. Strip away the more extreme elements of the confession booth and purgatory, and you have the same bare bones doctrine permeating the church world.
KERRIGAN SKELLY WHO ARE THE REAL HERETICS AND PHARESIES
When Jesus told His disciples to obey the Pharesies, He was being sarcastic.
Our salvation is a works-based salvation. I am not speaking about our initial salvation, which is by grace through faith, but after this initial salvation we have to fight the daily fight of faith and endure unto the end in order to make it into Heaven.
To me, living holy does not mean literally never sinning. It means going forth with the attitude that you're going to live in obedience to God's commandments. It also means putting away all the sins in your life that you know of. This is the opposite of going out every day with the attitude that you are going to sin because you're just a miserable worm who can't help it.
Jesus Christ did not die for literally everyone. He died for the people whom God had predestined to come to Him.
I have not personally obtained this moral perfection which Skelly aludes to in this video. However, I know some of the big sins in my life and I have been praying that they would be overcome. I am going on toward the goal of moral perfection in this life. Even if I don't for whatever reason end up overcoming these big sins in my life and/or obtaining said moral perfection, I am confident that if I died right now, I would go to Heaven. I have this confidence because there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ and because I am on the path, living a sincere life of obedience to Jesus Christ, surrendering more of myself and opening up more of my heart to Him all the time.
I don't have a problem with Calvinism as such. I believe in predestination. However, I have a problem with hypercalvinists who use the truth of predestination as an excuse for complacency in the hyuman sphere and as an excuse for not doing what God has told them to do.
Our salvation is a works-based salvation. I am not speaking about our initial salvation, which is by grace through faith, but after this initial salvation we have to fight the daily fight of faith and endure unto the end in order to make it into Heaven.
To me, living holy does not mean literally never sinning. It means going forth with the attitude that you're going to live in obedience to God's commandments. It also means putting away all the sins in your life that you know of. This is the opposite of going out every day with the attitude that you are going to sin because you're just a miserable worm who can't help it.
Jesus Christ did not die for literally everyone. He died for the people whom God had predestined to come to Him.
I have not personally obtained this moral perfection which Skelly aludes to in this video. However, I know some of the big sins in my life and I have been praying that they would be overcome. I am going on toward the goal of moral perfection in this life. Even if I don't for whatever reason end up overcoming these big sins in my life and/or obtaining said moral perfection, I am confident that if I died right now, I would go to Heaven. I have this confidence because there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ and because I am on the path, living a sincere life of obedience to Jesus Christ, surrendering more of myself and opening up more of my heart to Him all the time.
I don't have a problem with Calvinism as such. I believe in predestination. However, I have a problem with hypercalvinists who use the truth of predestination as an excuse for complacency in the hyuman sphere and as an excuse for not doing what God has told them to do.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
RADIO-RELATED STUFF: A COUPLE ALT ROCK THINGS
Is Indie 88.1 testing now?
989 The Drive was really bleeding into the CBC Peterborough signal Saturday night.
It's a shame CJMB was never able to be what it wanted to be.
989 The Drive was really bleeding into the CBC Peterborough signal Saturday night.
It's a shame CJMB was never able to be what it wanted to be.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
REPLY AWL
The April issue of Readers Digest contains a reprint of an article from 1933 in which Helen Keller talks about what she would do if she had the ability to see for three days. To quote Talibam!:
It's fun to think about what might have been,
But that's a bad idea
Cause you'll reach for the gin.
The book choice in the same issue is the story of how a Toronto food bank started offering fresh vegetables and doing other neat things to improve what it's patrons were receiving. It was a good read. I think I'll pick up a copy of the book.
The April 22 issue of Maclean's has an article about the inconvenience to municipalities of students leaving items on the side of the road for passersby to haul away. I don't know why such a thing should be illegal or why governments would have a problem with it. Better to give a TV or piece of furniture a new home than to have it end up in the dump.
Update 5/31: The actual Talibam! lyric I was referring to is:
It's nice to hypothesize
What might have been,
But that's a bad idea
'cause you'll reach for the gin.
It's fun to think about what might have been,
But that's a bad idea
Cause you'll reach for the gin.
The book choice in the same issue is the story of how a Toronto food bank started offering fresh vegetables and doing other neat things to improve what it's patrons were receiving. It was a good read. I think I'll pick up a copy of the book.
The April 22 issue of Maclean's has an article about the inconvenience to municipalities of students leaving items on the side of the road for passersby to haul away. I don't know why such a thing should be illegal or why governments would have a problem with it. Better to give a TV or piece of furniture a new home than to have it end up in the dump.
Update 5/31: The actual Talibam! lyric I was referring to is:
It's nice to hypothesize
What might have been,
But that's a bad idea
'cause you'll reach for the gin.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
RADIO-RELATED STUFF
Good to hear Carlos who calls into "Ground Zero" call into "Coast To Coast" a few weeks ago.
Good to hear Thomas in Ohio who calls into "The Conspiracy Show" with Richard Syrett call into "Ground Zero" last night.
Heard some cool RTTY signals today.
Good to hear Thomas in Ohio who calls into "The Conspiracy Show" with Richard Syrett call into "Ground Zero" last night.
Heard some cool RTTY signals today.
Friday, May 24, 2013
KENNETH COPELAND FAITH IN GOD'S WORD MAKES YOU WHOLE
Regarding the story about the guy giving Copeland the cheque at the motel pool, I wouldn't tempt the devil.
We shouldn't go around constantly telling people to go to Hell, but there are times when it is correct to do so. Peter told the man who was trying to buy the gifts of God this when he said "your money perish with you." Paul does this in 1 Corinthians 16 22 when he says "if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be anathema."
Paul wasn't completely born again on the road to Damascus. Rather, he had to go into the city where he was instructed what he had to do to be saved.
As far as the person who was in need of "serious deliverance", I suspect there might have been a few people in that section suffering from stomach troubles.
Near the end, Copeland gets the audience to repeat a prayer three times. What about the verse where Jesus said, "and when ye pray do not use vain repititions as the heathen do for they think that they will be heard for their many words?"
We shouldn't go around constantly telling people to go to Hell, but there are times when it is correct to do so. Peter told the man who was trying to buy the gifts of God this when he said "your money perish with you." Paul does this in 1 Corinthians 16 22 when he says "if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be anathema."
Paul wasn't completely born again on the road to Damascus. Rather, he had to go into the city where he was instructed what he had to do to be saved.
As far as the person who was in need of "serious deliverance", I suspect there might have been a few people in that section suffering from stomach troubles.
Near the end, Copeland gets the audience to repeat a prayer three times. What about the verse where Jesus said, "and when ye pray do not use vain repititions as the heathen do for they think that they will be heard for their many words?"
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