Theology That Bites Back
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Introduction: Eric Mason has recently released a book entitled Woke Church, and he has done this at a time when a season of uncommon racial silliness has descended upon us all. And as a sage once observed, if there are twelve clowns in a circus ring cavorting about, you can jump down there and start …
“According to His human nature, Jesus was a Davidson. He would have been found in the phone book under the D’s” (Mere Fundamentalism, pp. 19-20).
“Another way of thinking of this, a way suggested to us in the Scriptures, though not as common, is to think of God the Speaker, God the Spoken, and God the Interpretation” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 19).
“The life of Jesus on earth was not an instance of God temporarily slumming on earth. No, when Christ took on human nature, He did so permanently. And the resurrection was the seal on that permanence” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 18).
“If a homely illustration may be permitted, the Father is where we need to go, the Son is the way we take to get there, and the Holy Spirit is what enables us to travel. The Father is the city we are driving to, the Son is the road, and the Spirit is the car. …
Introduction: Let’s begin by juxtaposing a few things, shall we? I have been arguing of late that Christians who are in the process of folding (like that cheap card table bought at a yard sale) use the word woke as a good word, representing either a good thing, or a thing that Christians can retrieve …
This week Pastor Wilson talks about jury nullification and gives us his personal account of being jury duty himself. Then he plods on to review Justin Dyer and Micah Watson’s book, “C.S. Lewis On Politics and Natural Law”. Then Pastor Wilson wraps things up by taking a look at the Greek word anosios. Happy Plods! …
“Our rulers murdered Him because we didn’t want to be shown the way back to God, and yet through that murder, we were shown the way back to God” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 14).
Wokery: Thank you for this. Would you mind explaining briefly what “woke” is, in laymen terms, and would you mind giving a brief explanation of why it’s sin? I agree that it is sin, but there are these contrary mind daggers competing for the moral high ground. Therefore, if I had a concise statement on …
