Flynn on October 4th, 2007

Defender’s strategy:
I believe A.
A is (seemingly) undeniable.
B apparently contradicts A.
But A has to be true, given arguments 1, 2 and 3.
Therefore B has to be interpreted in such a way that fits with A.
So with a given verse, the method is more often like this:
List all possible “exegetical” alternatives for [...]

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Flynn on May 17th, 2007

Here is something interesting.
Now I am no fan of Warfield. I don’t like his writings generally speaking. But this I did enjoy.
We will ask, however, an American divine to explain to us the sacerdotal system as it has come to be taught in the Protestant Episcopal Churches.60 “Man,” we read in Dr. A. G. Mortimer’s [...]

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Flynn on April 24th, 2007

Firstly, I don’t know if anyone else is gonna post here today. If they intend to post they can have my spot tomorrow.
So with the humble contrite thing out of the way… ;-) [cheeky hobbit grin]
Okay, I was scoping out some discussion boards as I am wont to do on occasion. I came across this [...]

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Seth McBee on March 16th, 2007

I think this is the kind of post that Josh and David really wanted me to start posting when they asked me to join; a post on my dispensational thoughts.   As I take a look at Revelation 20 I take a literal interpretation of the thoughts and words of the apostle John.  I understand that [...]

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    A paradigm is a thought pattern. A thought pattern is a mold you have been trained to think in. Paradigms have invisible “walls”,  or mental blocks that direct our flow of thinking based on things like instinct, experience, and trust.
 
     Not to long ago, my ship was practicing setting fire and flooding boundaries. We [...]

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