“There is also a deep theological problem with the view that death antedated mankind. The Bible teaches that Adam produced death. The opposing view has to say that in some manner death produced Adam.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 20
Letters in the Dregs of July
Letter to the Editor: Great write-up of 5GW.I was struck a few years back by the insight that since both spiritual warfare and fifth generation warfare are a fight over truth, the Venn diagram ...
On the Age of the Earth
“Everyone in the debate would willing to affirm a Flannelgraph version of the Flood, giraffe and all, if that is what the Bible taught, and everyone in the debate would be willing to affirm a planet creaky with age if that is what the Bible taught.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 18.
Covered in Crimson
“In Jesus Christ, we received the fullness of the wrath of God, and in Jesus Christ we receive the fullness of God’s pleasure in His well-beloved Son. This exchange, this glorious transaction, occurred on the Mercy Seat in the Great Heaven between the cherubim, and it is a mercy entirely covered in blood. Trying to clean the blood off does us no favors at all.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 15
Keeping Standards Up
Scandal Is the Point
“God made it [penal substitution] scandalous on purpose in order to keep our number of refined theologians to a minimum.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 14
The Axis of Salvation
“We are saved from the wrath of God by the love of God as these two attributes of God collided in the agony of Jesus Christ.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 13
Why I Don’t Mind Talking About the 19th Amendment
Introduction: Over the last year or so, from time to time you may have wondered to yourself why I have taken it into my head to go around talking about the 19th Amendment so much. This, along with my supposed interest in repealing the right of women to vote. Why on earth would I ever …
And Actually Is Not Supposed To
“No translation means exactly the same thing.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 11
Hot July Letters
Letter to the Editor: God isn't a cosmic sadist who loves to withhold blessing from His children. Fair. However—how do we speak about what looks very much like a pattern of intolerable ...