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Click here to enter. [Note: For some reason, I ended up with the two fingers above Dr. White's head] Dr. White is very gracious to allow me to be a part of this team (not sure why) and I’ve neglected my duties (frankly I’m not sure I have any real substance to add). Lord willing, I will begin posting more.
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Well, it is about time that I shut down posting on this blog. I’m coming up on the end of my second semester (first year) of seminary in which exams are in a few weeks. This semester has been a blast as I’ve struggled my way through Hebrew (but enjoy it very much), I’ve pulled off A’s on mid-terms for both NT Introduction and Apologetics. I am also taking logic but was able to bring in credits from another institution and so I’m only required to audit it. Well, I also have to participate in a debate, in which I have to take the evidential apologetic side (aa... [read more]
add to discussionDr. C.N. Willborn is one of my professors at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Lord willing I will have Ancient Church with him during the fall 2008 semester. Dr. Willborn expresses some of the same thoughts that I have had over the years regarding the issue of training for the ministry. The difference is, he is professor at a theological seminary. Read his article titled Thoughts on Ministerial Education and Preparation. Here is a taste: This, of course, will require pastors to become manly again—men who take their calling seriously and exercise it fully. Committing what ... [read more]
add to discussionListen to the two Castle Church broadcast on Van Til. The first addresses Van Til and his apologetic click here to listen. The second addresses Van Til and his critique of Karl Barth. Click here to listen. Visit the Castle Church by going here. There are many other programs worth listening to.
add to discussionRegarding the creation of mankind, the Westminster Shorter Catechism (Q10) asks “How did God create man?” And it answers the question by stating “God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures” (emphasis mine). And because we are made in the image of God, we are to image Him (as only man can), in all of our being. We tend to look at this section of Genesis (1-3) as man either obeying and disobeying God strictly in their ethic (how they live their lives). But as God’s creatures,... [read more]
add to discussionPastor Howard Sloan has been putting scripture to Hymns. Here are three so far: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Ephesians 1: 3-14 and Philippians 2:5-11. Stay tuned to this site for further updates. Howard is the pastor of St. Paul’s Reformed Church in Bedford, PA. I would love to go back to PA after seminary and minister in this area.
add to discussionPaul Manata is at in again. This time he has produced a major review of James Anderson’s Paradox in Christianity Theology (Paternoster, 2007; ISBN#: 9-78184-22746-20), 328p). Click here for the review.
add to discussionAll hermeneutic theories which play down the natue of God as communicator, and which move the focus to either the autonomous text or the autonomous reader, are expressions of hermeneutical atheism. –Graeme Goldsworthy. Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evengelical Biblical Interpretation, Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2006, 53 Fn. 22.
add to discussionWhat (or perhaps it would be better to ask, who) is Paul referring to in Acts 17 when he states “In him we live and move and have our being”? As you know Paul was quoting a pagan poet at this point. If the a Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness or any other member of the various cults or world religions made such a statement, “In him we live move and have our being,” could we join with them and say yes, you are correct? Or, is something else going on (in Paul’s mind) throughout Acts 17 and particularly in this verse?
add to discussionPaul Manata reviews the new biography of Van Til. Well done, Paul. Click here to read. NOTE: Paul even mentions that the book smells good.
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