Does God Have Emotions? What Impassibility Really Claims
Does God Have Emotions? What Impassibility Really Claims Does God have emotions? Yes. He loves, delights, grieves and sets Himself against evil, and Scripture reports all…
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Articles in Christian philosophy
Christian philosophy, worked out in public.
Two tracks. The philosophy pieces take one dilemma at a time and index the term that generates it — argument rather than survey. The church pieces are for pastors with a growth problem and no patience for abstraction. Both are free, and both are complete in themselves.
Does God Know the Future? What Each Answer Costs
Does God Know the Future? What Each Answer Costs Does God know the future? Yes, exhaustively and infallibly, and the live question in analytic theology is…
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Does God Change His Mind? The Relenting Texts Explained
Does God Change His Mind? The Relenting Texts Explained Does God change his mind? No, and the passages in which he relents are still true reports…
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Is God a Person? Classical Theism vs Theistic Personalism
Is God a Person? Classical Theism vs Theistic Personalism Is God a person? The answer depends on which of two unrelated senses of the word is…
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Aseity: God’s Self-Existence and the Platonist Challenge
Aseity: God's Self-Existence and the Platonist Challenge Aseity is the property by which a being exists of and from itself, and in Christian theology it names…
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Why Does God Allow Suffering? The Real Argument
Why Does God Allow Suffering? The Real Argument Why does God allow suffering? The direct answer is that He permits finite, temporal suffering within a world…
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Apophatic Theology: Where the Negation Belongs
Apophatic Theology: Where the Negation Belongs Apophatic theology, also called negative theology or the via negativa, speaks about God by denial: it says what God is…
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Annihilationism: What It Gets Right and What It Costs
Annihilationism: What It Gets Right and What It Costs Annihilationism is the view that the finally impenitent are destroyed at the last judgment rather than kept…
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Double Predestination: Calvin, Reprobation and the Critics
Double Predestination: Calvin, Reprobation and the Critics Double predestination is the teaching that God's eternal decree concerns both the saved and the lost: He elects some…
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Limited Atonement: For Whom Did Christ Die?
Limited Atonement: For Whom Did Christ Die? Limited atonement is the Reformed doctrine that God intended Christ's death to secure the salvation of the elect, so…
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Unconditional Election: Who the Elect Are and Why God Chose
Unconditional Election: Who the Elect Are and Why God Chose Unconditional election is the Reformed doctrine that God, before He made the world, chose particular people…
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Irresistible Grace: Effectual Calling and Its Critics
Irresistible Grace: Effectual Calling and Its Critics Irresistible grace is the Reformed doctrine, the I in TULIP, that the saving grace God gives to the elect…
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