[Continuing from Part 1]
In this post, my aim is to document some recent historical claims made regarding John Gill’s hypercalvinism. I will first cite Tom Nettle’s original attempted defense of Gill, and then post a critical rebuttal by Robert Oliver. After this I will post a small comment from Nettles from another [...]
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I thought I would steal this from Theological Meditations. It is very apt given our recent “conversations” here on Theology Online.
Vos:
There is, however, still a third sense, in which Jesus leads us to ascribe universality to the divine love. This is done not so much in explicit form as by the implications of His attitude [...]
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What if I said:
1) “God commands all men to repent and believe, and so forth.”
2) “God ‘wants’ men to comply to his commands.”
3) “Some of God’s commands are ‘unfulfilled.’”
But:
4) “Nonetheless God never has any unfulfilled ‘wants’!”
You would say:
“Hey Dave, you are being incoherent… you are babbling man!
I would reply, “you’re right… go here!” [...]
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I was looking at some Bunyan this morning, just for the fun of it. I came again across this excellent quotation. Bunyan was one of those very very–did I say very and very enough times ;-)– few Puritans who held to unlimited expiation. But should someone not take my word for this, one might care [...]
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Invincible Ignorance:
Years ago when I was in post-grad philosophy, a few of us were in a tutorial, and the term “Invincible Ignorance” was tabled. Its not meant as a pejorative term, but as a way to describing an attitude of willful defiance. You’ve all heard the story, for example, of the man who thought he [...]
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