One thing is for sure Calvinists don’t have the exclusive on doubt about their salvation. An Arminian might well believe he could loose his salvation and therefore worry about how to be sure he didn’t. A Calvinist might worry that he never had it in the first place! In this next series of posts I intend to look at reasons for assurance of salvation- What makes someone a Christian? How can I know I am saved? Can I know I... Read more
Dont ask me why I feel like laying down this gauntlet, but I would love to here significant dissent out there. You know who you are pssing through thinking “thats not right”. You see I want to move onto answering the question “so what” about all this doctrine and I will soon, but it bothers me that in all my arminian readers not one of them has really taken direct issue with any of my defininitions of the TULIP. Is... Read more
Many people represent this point of Calvinism as “once saved always saved”, or that you cannot loose your salvation. Now of course, if by salvation you mean walking forward at a crusade LOADS of people seem to loose that. But, by now, you should realise that Calvinists do not believe that a superficial “decision for Christ” is what constitutes a Christian. If being born again is something done to you, how can you be unborn? Really this doctrine was always... Read more
Several sermons from my church preached by me and my pastor Tope have just been posted. These are part of a series on acts entitled Changing the world one person at a time There is one in particular which I would to draw your attention to- entitled the Normal Christian Birth it explains what I believe should happen to people who want to become Christians. Read more
As more and more people are talking about euthanasian, this lady is more concerned that she might loose the right to live Read more
Here we are coming almost to the coup de grace of these five points. I g you have understood all of the others and can accept them then this will be as sweet to you as reaching the very sight of the top of the mountain you are climbing. It is not quite the peak for the believer, as that comes in the last point. Of course, if you find that the system makes you angry at the thought that... Read more
In a startling new development in my longstanding tag-blogging relationship with Jollyblogger, he and I have posted on the same subject within a minute of each other!!! Admittadly the posts were both part of a series, but it is somewhat amusing to me that without planning it we were quite this synchronised. L – Limited atonement (Five Points of Calvinism, Part 3) Dr Adrian Warnock’s UK Blog Nov 30 19:34 Before we can ask what is “limited atonment” in todays’... Read more
A big thank you and well done to the following blogs. They have all linked to our Blogdom of God / Truth Laid Bear fundraising effort. We are in a challenge and it would be great to see some more folks signing up to send some resource to help Iraqis 11/26/2004 Blogdom of God Friends of Iraq Challenge (from: 21st Century Reformation) 11/27/2004 Blogging for Iraq (from: Mark A. Kilmer’s Political Annotation) 11/27/2004 An Invitation To The Blogdom of God... Read more
Before we can ask what is “limited atonment” in todays’ climate of doubt regarding our theories of the atonement, including accusing people like me of propounding a theory of cosmic child abuse we need to start by defining the very idea of the atonement before moving to whether it is limited or not. The atonement is simply another word for Christs death, bit it is a word that links his death to the removal of sin in the way that... Read more
Gmail never took off for me so far, but we will see I may get to it at some point (I was offered a Gmail address due to my blogging, but have never really tried it out) Some other things have been quietly happening, however, over at google that is possibly of even greated significance than their foray into email (after all there are other web-based email systems!). In fact, the tools described here are probably every bloggers dream, and... Read more
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