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“.
. . The trouble with Arminianism is that it is illogical. It retains parts of the Biblical message, but
because of its unscriptural theory of free will rejects other parts.”
Dr.
Gordon H. Clark. What Do
Presbyterians Believe? The Westminster
Confession Yesterday and Today. (Unicoi: Trinity Foundation, 2001),
p. 174.
For
as the oe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and
when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
(Matthew 23:15 KJV)
Now the serpent was more subtil
than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (Genesis nbsp;
2.
And not for ours only. He added this for the sake of amplifying, in order that
the faithful might be assured that the expiation made by Christ, extends to all
who by faith embrace the gospel.
Here
a question may be raised, how have the sins of the whole world been expiated? I
pass by the dotages of the fanatics, who under this pretence extend salvation
to all the reprobate, and .
. . By 1936 the signers of the Auburn Affirmation showed that they had
captured the church by reorganizing Princeton Seminary and placing one of the
signers on its governing board, by electing one of their number Moderator of
the General Assembly [of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America], and, what was decisive, by excommunicating those ministers who had “The question very really concerns the attitude of God with respect to the reprobate. We may limit the controversy to this question: what must the preacher of the gospel say of God’s intention with respect to the reprobate? And these, too, may be called by different names, such as: the impenitent, the wicked, the unbelievers, etc., etc.” The answer to this question defines the difference he principle of the greatest good for the greatest number is one by which dictators can justify their cruelty. When the communists starved to death millions of Ukrainians, massacred thousands of Polish officers, murdered possibly twenty million Chinese, and slaughtered the Tibetans, they could justify themselves on the ground that the pleasure of future generations of communists would The
critique of secular views continues to ethics. Here too, Clark contends,
secular philosophy fails. He briefly dispatches Kantianism before addressing
utilitarianism. As he has written elsewhere, a major problem is that the
calculations required by utilitarianism are impossible. The ‘still greater
difficulty’ in calculating the greatest good of the greatest number is
establishing the The first and basic point in a
Christian philosophy of education, or a Christian philosophy of anything, is
Biblical authority. Just as Platonism is
defined by what Plato wrote, and not by the decadent skeptical Academy of later
years, so the ultimate definition of Christianit not the decadent confusion of
the liberal churches, not the pronouncements of the Pope, not the inconsistent Some suggest that North American Pentecostalism
represents an anti-cultural posture arising from
an experience of deprivation or marginalization from
mainstream culture.1 One response to cultural marginalization is the adoption of conservative politics and
the materialistic values of consumer culture. A sense of
disenfranchisement often leads to withdrawal from society or to a The Bible and the Bible alone is the word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16I'm not an expert in making and uploading videos. However, this is my first video uploaded to the Reasonable Christian channel in YouTube: Reasonable Christian Apologetics channel.