This subject of biblical swearing provides yet another example of the necessity of systematic study in the Scriptures. It is impossible to subject to the authority of just one text as we are reading it, because submission occurs at the point of obedience in real life. And when it comes time to swear, or not …
Discrimination
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 36 Discrimination used to be a good word, and it is still possible to use it that way in some settings (e.g. “He is a man of discriminating taste.”) But for the most part, our modern thought police have seen …
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Weeping for Tammuz
“Not even God knows what is true. Remember that for postevangelicals, God is out of it and pretty groggy. True postmoderns know that He is dead, and that is why He does not view objective truth from His Nowhere House. But we in the postev milieu are still sensitively struggling away in the church, and …
Credenda Deadenda
“But in brief, there are only three possible types of responses to Kenneson. One could say that his statement that truth is irrelevant to Christians is true, thus demonstrating that he doesn’t get it. Or he could say that it is false, demonstrating that he still thinks the other side of the coin (truth) is …
Sharing
“Rather, Kenneson wants to speak of truth for us. We hammer out the truth on the anvil of shared experience, we walk it out in the paths of communal trust, we flip the burgers of truth on the griddle of sharing” (Contours of Post Maturity, p. 63).
Nouns and Stories
One of the most baffling things about the postmodern drift in Reformed and evangelical circles is the idea that certainty is entirely and completely dependent on foundationalism. And, if foundationalism goes, then there goes our ability to know anything for certain. Now foundationalism is the philosophical view that certitude must be based on certain “basic” …
More Shroud Stuff
Since the Shroud of Turin web site went up last week, the response has been really remarkable, with lots of interest and respect from all around the world. But some of our local critics have been beside themselves, and have behaved like a nine-year-old boy throwing rocks at a train . . . ten minutes …
A Critical Spirit
“And when folks don’t want your religion the way it is, then change it! If totalizing metanarratives don’t cut it, then give them partializing mininarratives. If they don’t want to hear that Jesus died for sinners, then we are called, in a postmodern milieu, to tell them that He didn’t. Those who have a problem …
The Ice Cream Shop of Truth
“This book actually does provide us with a veritable Baskins & Robbins of apologetic methods. We have the standard old Arminian vanilla supplied by Craig, and the more reformational Rocky Road supplied by James Sire. But both these gentlemen, for all their strengths, are unduly attached to the traditional flavors, with their undue dependence upon …