Flynn on May 30th, 2008

I am reading Rudolph Gualther and he is speaking about the sin of curiosity, and then I realised: Lapsarianism is the sin of curiosity.
Its the Reformed equivalent of curiosity about dates, years and times when Christ will return.
David

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Josh on June 17th, 2007

City of God, Book 16 Chapter 27
 

 ”When it is said, “The male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he has broken my covenant,” Genesis 17:14 some may be troubled how that ought to be understood, since it can be no fault [...]

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Josh on March 25th, 2007

 
 

 
     The sermon today at my church was about thorns. It was a particularly moving sermon, one of those sermons where you think the Pastor has a hidden camera that follows you around all week. We opened with the curse of the ground in Genesis 3:18.
 
?17? Then to Adam He said, ?“Because you [...]

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Greenbaggins on November 13th, 2006

After a few mistrials, I am finally here. Josh asked me to post a bit for him when I have the time. I thought I would post a bit on Genesis 3:22. All major translations have mistranslated it, in my opinion. I do not say that lightly, and I say it extremely rarely. However, this [...]

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