Tag: Sin
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Andrew Walker penned an insightful article here entitled “Criticism isn’t cancellation”. He argues that American pluralism doesn’t require Christians to celebrate sin. “In French’s view, Christians shouldn’t object to this because American evangelicals need to take the log out of their eye and leave judgment to those inside the church.…
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Mankind was created sinless by God in his image (Gen 1) but fell into sin and rebelled against God (Gen 3). Sin infects everyone and separates us from God (Rom 3:23), leaving us completely unable to earn merit in God’s sight by good works of our own (Gal 2:16). Jesus…
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James Wood wrote a powerful essay here on a disturbing online subculture. He argues that the great 4th century theologian Augustine would not have been surprised and that his ancient theology articulates the solution. “The phenomenon itself should not be described in detail. In brief, “gooning” refers to a hyper-extended…
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RC Sproul wrestles with degrees of sin here. Many Christians hold a faulty view of this topic.
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(This is drawn from the excellent discussion on Theopedia) Important – We cannot be dogmatic on this issue; disagreements should not separate Christians (i.e, exercise theological triage) The Age of Accountability is that time in the development of a person when he or she can and invariably does sin against God and…
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While the gospel can be condensed to John 3:16, a good apologist must be able to defend the gospel in all of its glorious fullness. It is extremely difficult to execute theological triage and know when to fall on one’s sword if we hold only an abbreviated form of the…
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Evil is the consequence of sin (Rom 1:30 – “they invent ways of doing evil.) While evil must always be countered, we need to recognize that is always only a stop-gap measure at best, akin to pulling up the top half of a weed but leeaving the root for it…
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