Careful Attention Should be Paid to Sermon Titles Also
The Systemic Shuffle
I wanted to make just a few bullet points about Eric Mason’s second chapter. I already addressed one of the difficulties from this chapter in my first post on all this, but there are a few other things that need to be mentioned. First, he says a number of true, just, and orthodox things. Much …
Because God Didn’t Use Focus Groups
“One of the reasons we want millions of years to process everything is that we don’t want to deal with the raw sovereignty on display when God simply creates a male peacock—in a display not only of divine sovereignty but also of dubious taste. Completely overdone” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 31).
You Write the Letters and Then I Post Them
The Microsoft Thou Gavest Me: I believe that some afghans would make a room more comfortable, but for most people, Afghans, unless carefully chosen, would not. Jane Jane, I need to tell you I did it right the first time, but Microsoft gave me a red, squiggly line, and there were no other alternatives offered …
In Other Words, Way Ridonkulous
“There is no way to have law without a lawgiver, design without a designer, engineering without an engineer, creation without a Creator. And so they opt for the incredible hypothesis that the immense complexity that we call organic life managed to fall up the stairs, assembling itself as it went. The whole thing is beyond …
Higher Than Scripture, Holier Than God
Introduction: Sovereign Grace Churches recently issued a statement explaining why they could not agree to a third-party investigation of the allegations that have been raised against them. That statement ...
And Then Some
“The only problem with the phrase intelligent design is that it is one of history’s most grotesque understatements” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26).
Just Between Us
The Real Issue
“But if [God]—approximately six thousand years ago, give or take a couple of weeks—made the aardvarks and anteaters, and little yellow canaries, and giraffes, and koala bears, pretty much as we see them today, then we have to come to grips [with the fact] that we are living in a place designed for us, and …
Because Boots Are Intelligently Designed
“But it is He that has made us and not we ourselves. We did not, and could not have, fetched ourselves out of the primordial slime by lifting ourselves by our own bootstraps. Amoebae don’t have boots, for starters. Moreover, they never did” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26).