Category Archives: Theology

The beauty of penal substitutionary atonement

Posted on May 3, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

“…where the idea of the wrath of God is ignored, there also will there be no understanding of the central conception of the Gospel: the uniqueness of the revelation in the Mediator.” Emil Brunner The Mediator p.152 I had not intended to … Continue reading →

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The gobbledygook of John Piper’s Calvinism

Posted on March 29, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

In today’s podcast John Piper has responded to the important question: ‘If our will is not free, are we accountable?’ The podcast can be found here (Episode 308). Piper first suggests that what makes us responsible for our actions is that all … Continue reading →

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‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ Part 5.2: Foundationalism and Faith

Posted on March 11, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

I am roughly (according to my kindle) one quarter of the way though this book and it’s taken a long time in coming but Boghossian begins talking about which epistemological school of thought he wants his Street Epistemologists (SEs) to … Continue reading →

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Christians defining faith

Posted on March 9, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

It has become a hallmark of modern atheism that it often attempts to redefine ‘faith’ to mean something Christians simply do not mean by the term. In contrast to those attempts, here are some Christian thinkers being permitted to say … Continue reading →

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A reply to Philochristos regarding theistic determinism

Posted on March 1, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

“Even though we stress ever so strongly that God’s authority is finally at issue, the idea of a rigid causality arises. But this may not be. We are dealing with God’s address to people. But people as such cannot be … Continue reading →

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William Lane Craig vs Paul Helm (Molinism vs Calvinism) – A brief commentary

Posted on January 5, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

This debate was aired yesterday on the show called ‘Unbelievable’ on the British Christian radio station ‘Premier Radio’. Here is the internet home page of the show but you can also subscribe to the show on itunes. This is not an … Continue reading →

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Where is God?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

I followed a link to the ‘The Official Blog of University of Missouri Sceptics, Atheists, Secular Humanists and Agnostics’ today. The article which had been recommended was called: ‘Are Christian Apologists Evidence Against Christianity?’ Since the only reply underneath the … Continue reading →

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An analysis of Richard Carrier’s ‘Why I am not a Christian’ (Parts 1 and 2)

Posted on August 7, 2013 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

PART 1 This book fails to deliver on its promise. While it most certainly does describe why Richard Carrier is not a Christian it fails to give any “conclusive reasons” for rejecting the Christian faith, let alone four of them! … Continue reading →

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A response to the problem of an ‘evil god’ as raised by Stephen Law

Posted on August 6, 2013 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

Stephen Law has suggested that arguments such as the cosmological and teleological arguments could serve equally well to support an evil god hypothesis. He says: “The challenge is to explain why the hypothesis that there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and … Continue reading →

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