Theology That Bites Back
“The first stair step of knowing anything rightly is to know God rightly, and to fear Him. To hate knowledge is the same thing as not choosing the fear of the Lord. And knowledge of the holy is the foundation of all understanding.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 12
Letter to the Editor: I hope you're doing well in this lovely Christmas season. Speaking of which, I know you usually receive and respond to perhaps more scholarly/heavier questions, or some ...
“This tells us that the fundamental law/gospel divide is not to found in the text of Scripture. It is found in the difference between regenerate and unregenerate man. For the regenerate, everything from God is sweeter than the honeycomb. All of it is grace. For the unregenerate, the whole thing is the stench of death, including the good news of Christ on the cross. All of it is law and condemnation.”
Introduction: So let us turn our attention to a most fascinating question, one that will challenge and/or vex the usefulness of “Christian worldview thinking.” Our president has ordered the blowing of narco boats out of the water, that water being of the international kind, and this directive is being implemented by Pete Hegseth, our Secretary …
“The world’s approach to sex is demented, but it is a demented caricature of certain creational realities. Men and women are convex and concave in their desires. Men want to possess and women want to be possessed. Men want to want and women want to be wanted. We reject the world’s approach to sex by embracing God’s approach.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 5
“In other words, while there is real legalism out there, we want to make sure that we don’t define a legalist as someone who loves Jesus more than we do.”
“The law of God is like math. It doesn’t care about anybody’s hurt feelings. It is straight, and hard, and cold, and altogether righteous. But at the same time, when this cold, very cold law is resurrected in the body of Christ back from the darkness of the tomb, it comes to us as burning love. And this is why the message must be cold law and hot gospel.”
Introduction: I will begin by noting that today's installment is going to be more autobiographical than normal, and will consequently be a bit more personal. There is a reason for this, as I hope will ...
“We must believe in His sacrificial death, and accept our justification in His resurrection, and then acknowledge that He, and He alone, is Lord. This means that every black tribe is ruled by a man who is not black, and every white tribe is ruled by a Jew. It is time for everybody to deal with it.”
