Introduction In a previous post I argued that Norman Geisler’s inclusion of the Grammatical-Historical Method [GHM] of interpretation in his “Logical Method” for discovering Christian orthodoxy was problematic. Here I will expand on this issue, for it is often at this stage that related debates get hung up. This is not a critique of the GHM itself.…
Introduction I have been reading a bit about Martin Luther lately, and I did not realize what a brawler this guy was! All I remembered from classes and movies was this pious guy crying out that, “there he stood and could do no other.” I knew he cussed and drank etc., and I had a vague notion…
Introduction A friend told me about a short article that appeared recently concerning God’s impassibility titled Is God an Android? by Norman L. Geisler. In this article Geisler makes the claim that people “sometimes object to the classical view of God by claiming that if God is impassible then He cannot experience feelings like love and…
Introduction The doctrine of sola scriptura (“Scripture alone”) began its life as a concern for proper authority in religious matters. By “authority” here I mean something like “that which has the right to compel agreement.” A religious authority would be one which has the right to compel faith (orthodoxy) and actions (orthopraxy). This does not…
Here is an outline and exposition of what is often called the “Vertical Cosomological Argument” based on Thomas Aquinas’ thoughts in On Being and Essence. Outline A contingent being exists. Say, me – or the one who says nothing exists. 🙂 This contingent being must have a cause of its existence that is something other than the…
Having struggled with this issue for some time, I thought I would attempt to get a final answer as to how Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiæ* is to be cited in academic writing. What I discovered is that there seems to be no authoritative answer. This does not mean, however, that there are no wrong ways…
Introduction And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (John 17:3) I recently ran across an argument against the Jehovah’s Witness explanation of John 17:3, which is one of their primary proof texts used to attack the doctrine of the Trinity. Here the JW’s…
Introduction Many do not realize where the concept of a future 7 year “Great Tribulation” comes from. It is assumed by most that it is somewhere in Revelation (though there is no reference to a 7 year anything in Revelation), when in fact it is derived from a passage in Daniel (although the Great Tribulation…
Introduction Do we need to fear the Great Tribulation in our lifetime? Preterists today say No. Preterists believe that Jesus’ Olivet Discourse Prophecy found in Matthew 24 (cf. Mk. 13) & Luke 21 was fulfilled with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. In fact, they teach that almost the entirety of biblical eschatology…
Douglas Beaumont 