Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Introduction: One of the mistakes people make in their consideration of full preterism is the mistake of thinking that it is a matter of simple chronological placement. You know, like how the dispensationalists ...
“Once they have the law in place, they will grant your reductio—on the age of consent, on polygamy, and on the bisexual thing. On everything. The terminus is sexual anarchy.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 67
“A Christian civil order will grant them liberties that they have no intention of granting to us.”
“Under the new tyranny of the raw act of choosing, nothing would prevent two people from marrying, one in Massachusetts and one in Washington, whose one thing they share ‘in common’ is the fact that they have never met each other, never want to, and are resolved never to exchange any email whatsoever.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 62
[Regarding Acts 17:2 and 24:25] “And so what is free speech? It is not a means toward theocratic tyranny. Neither is it a secular end in itself. No. It is gospel fruit, and Jesus is the Lord of it.”
I had dinner with Charlie Kirk just a few weeks ago. He was a good man, full of life, full of questions, full of zeal. He was a patriot who was doing a lot of good for a lot of people. His instruments for accomplishing this were his ability to organize, and his talent for …
“The problem is that as soon as they abandon the understanding of marriage as a covenanted conjugal relationship of a man and a woman, they have no consistent stopping point. Some of them don’t want a consistent stopping point, and others of them do—but they still can’t have one.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 60
“Our understanding of this will never be advanced by denying the essential goodness of the Old Testament law, dead teens and all, slavery and all, stoning for adultery and all.”
Introduction: In this next chapter, some of the Caleb Campbell's motivations became a lot more apparent to me, and it actually had the effect of generating some sympathy for him. I will get to that ...
