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A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Three.
“Only lest any one should presume so to deny freedom of will, from a desire to excuse sin.” Augustine.
“Of our own we have nothing but sin.” Augustine.
Calvinism can make your head hurt. You get into all of the confusing little nooks and crannies of the Christian faith just to […]

A Presuppa-what? (Comments on an ageing Presuppositionalism.)
If I had a’ dollar for every time somebody asked me why I’m a presuppositionalist, I’d have a lot of dollars.  But why is it all so confusing?  I think that the most basic task of an apologist is the examination, analysis, and promotion or refutation of a person’s […]

A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Two.
Sometimes when people read Aquinas they can get an inflated sense of his theological skill from the fact that they focus on ten percent of his work, being, his formulation of the Classical arguments for the existence of God, and tend to ignore the massive infusion of pagan philosophy […]

A recent spate of Calvinism.  Part One.
Calvinism… oooo… spooky.  If half of the things that people say about Calvinism were even half true I could never be a Calvinist.  It’s not so much that people disagree about these things, Christians have always disagreed about these things, but the zeal for misrepresentation that should cause us […]

On Religious Experience: Part Two, A response to a friend.
As to “proof”, it doesn’t seem to be that I am using the word in an erroneous fashion as much as that you are defining the term with an erroneous restriction that does not take into account, not only the common use of the term according […]

On Religious Experience: The use of it as Proof for the existence of God.
Part 1.
Religious experience is, I think, the basis for a very powerful argument, but only powerful upon people that have had such an experience.  (This is a complicated claim that I will expand upon a little later.) With my theological background flowing […]