Theology That Bites Back
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This last Lord’s Day, I had the very great privilege of preaching at our Christ Church DC church plant. The folks there are wonderful, hard working, and highly organized. This promises to be a very fruitful work indeed. This venture was plainly prompted by the Lord, and was clearly an answer to the prayers of …
“The free speech rights of the average nonbeliever would be far more secure in a Christian republic than they currently are in this epistemic fun house of ours. If you want free speech protected, not absolutely, but fairly and generally, in a way consistent with decency and good order, then you should ask the Christians. They know how to do it. Secular pagans don’t know how to do it and, moreover, have no desire to do it. It is not one of their values.”
“We respect man because we adore God. We honor man because we worship God. When we go the humanist route and honor man because we honor man, we find at the end of the day that our paltry sense of honor, suspended from its own sky hook, bolted up there to nothing whatever, is not all that distinct from dishonor. The entire human race is nothing more than the foam on the surface of an infinite ocean of chaos.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 50-51
“Without the pervasive influence of the gospel in society, freedom will collapse into form only, or form will deteriorate into anarchy only and you will have the free speech equivalent of a failed state.”
Introduction: This next chapter of Disarming Leviathan continues to complain that Christian nationalists are all about picking up the sword in order to attain ungodly power and advance their ...
“An essential part of natural revelation or natural law is found within us. God does not just place His letters out there in the natural world, He also places His literacy in our hearts. His letters are out there, His literacy is in here.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 50
Letter to the Editor: Interesting argument; but maybe a bit sophist?I’m not a full preterist because of passages like you use to make a standard argument against preterism under the solipsism ...
I am not actually selecting the New Testament for my book of the month, which would be patronizing and bad. What I am doing is selecting a particular translation as a translation of the month, which makes better sense. If you took any college classes on the Iliad and the Odyssey, the chances are pretty …
“If religious liberty were an app, secularism is not a platform that supports it. They respect our right to speak our minds in the same way that kidnappers respect their victims’ attempts to make themselves heard outside the car trunk.”
