Pulished on October 8, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
“You have given us a good explanation, one that many opponents of Calvinism don’t understand. It still doesn’t explain why God chooses some and not others, or rather why he would choose some for destruction. That is left to the inscrutable, hidden, mysterious will of God. Barth pointed out the problem with that, is that […]
Pulished on September 20, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
The Five points of Calvinism.
You know the whole ‘5 points’ thing is kind of funny. John Calvin never had five points. While I really think he would have agreed with them, his was mainly an exegetical way of looking at what he thought Scripture was saying about some very important things. I think that if […]
Pulished on August 1, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
To a Friend,
As much as I disagree with much of what Van Til said and wrote, saying that General Revelation, God’s revelation of Himself in creation, is of equal authority with Special Revelation, meaning the Scriptures themselves, seems to be true.
It’s good that you are careful on these distinctions because many under value their necessity, […]
Pulished on July 24, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Five.
http://neiswonger.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/a-recent-spate-of-calvinism-part-four/”>Continued from Part Four.
“Now since one and the same grace may in one instance be efficacious, and in another inefficacious, it follows that the so-called gratia efficax must be conceived according to its essence as efficax ab extrinsico. In this conception there is no lessening of the dignity and […]
Pulished on July 2, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Four.
When you hear somebody that says they are a Calvinist say that man has no freewill, it’s hard to take that seriously. We all know that man has a will. The question is generally as to what man desires, not whether or not he does so. There has been […]
Pulished on June 26, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
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 […]
Pulished on June 14, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
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 […]
Pulished on June 12, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
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 […]
Pulished on June 11, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
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 […]