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Here are my short thoughts on Mr. Rob Bell and what is going on with his upcoming book, Love Wins.1) The guy knows that if he is going to sell his book he had best get it controversial and so he and his publishers are out there pushing his strange (and unbiblical) views about hell and God and love with his videos and excerpts designed to make evangelicals mad.  And it is working.  Justin Taylor and John Piper both have bought into his m...

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I saw the following quote on Facebook from John Ankerberg:For the Christian, the single most important endeavor in life is to glorify God. We are convinced that God can be trusted, loved, enjoyed, & served to the fullest if we are aware that from the point of salvation a place in heaven has been guaranteed us forever. The doctrine of eternal security glorifies God, far more than the logical outworking of the doctrine that a Christian can lose...

In an essay entitled "What is an Arminian?" John Wesley raised this question, "How can any man know what Arminius held, who has never read one page of his writings?" Wesley proceeded to offer this advice, "Let no man bawl against Arminians, till he knows what the term means."Wesley said Arminianism was usually charged with five errors:1.  they deny original sin2.  they deny justification by faith3.  they deny absolute predestinatio...

It seems to me that many of the churches that I am familiar with are more and more using the Scriptures as a book to proof-text their counseling of human problems.  Entire series' of talks now are being given by "lead pastors" that are focused on problems such as marriage, family, failures, passion, etc.  Instead of teaching the Scriptures and taking people deeper in their understanding of the Word of God, too often the "sermons" are co...

1. Arminius is misrepresented concerning total depravityLars Qualben in A History of the Christian Church states that Jacob Arminius and his followers taught "Man was not totally depraved and could therefore co-operate with God in the spiritual regeneration"[p. 351].  Louis Berkhof wrote, "Man has by nature an irresistible bias for evil. He is not able to apprehend and love spiritual excellence, to seek and do spiritual things, the things of...

John Wesley observed that "to say, 'this man is an Arminian,' has the same effect on many hearers, as to say, 'This is a mad dog'" [Works, 10:358]. Richard Watson wrote that Arminius is accused of introducing corruptions into the Christian church, which he probably never thought of and which certainly have no place in his works [Theological Dictionary, p. 41].Christopher Ness in An Antidote Against Arminianism, first published in 1700, called Arm...

IX. Because we say that the wages of every sin is death," we do not, on this account, with the Stoics, make them all equal. For, beside the refutation of such an opinion by many passages of Scripture, it is likewise opposed to the diversity of objects against which sin is perpetrated, to the causes from which it arises, and to the law against which the offense is committed. Besides, the disparity of punishments in the death that is eternal, prove...

DISPUTATION 8ON ACTUAL SINSRESPONDENT, CASPER WILTENSI. As divines and philosophers are often compelled, on account of a penury of words, to distinguish those which are synonymous, and to receive others in a stricter or more ample signification than their nature and etymology will allow; so in this matter of actual sin, although the term applies also to the first sin of Adam, yet, for the sake of a more accurate distinction, they commonly take it...

"I sin everyday."  This is the motto of so many people who call Jesus Lord.  Some of them mean that they sin by not obeying Jesus perfectly in that they don't read their Bible enough or they don't honor God enough or they pray as much as they should (1 Samuel 12:23).  But others do mean that they sin outright against God every day.  They lie.  They cheat others.  They hate others.  They despise others.  The...