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Notes on Mark 1:1-8 https://particularbaptism.blogspot.com/2025/01/notes-on-mark-1-8.html?m=1

One problem with certain 'progressive' interpretations of mercy is that it puts the state in the position of granting forgiveness. The state may show clemency for various reasons, but mercy is in the hands of he who was offended, not the state. This is also a reason why civil penalties don't...

One thing I noticed about TV evangelism that started to make my antennae twitch was how they usually talk about David and Solomon entirely in glowing terms. Remember that David ended up a murderer and adulterer. Solomon committed idolatry and ended his days a forgotten wretch. No amount of 'good...

Men do evil of their own will, but it is all foreordained at the will of God, for his own glory. God is sovereign over everything, including Sin, and no act can occur without his eternal decree.

I acknowledge that in Old Testament Israel, God prescribed the death penalty for certain offenses. I also affirm that civil authorities have the right and duty to impose penalties, even on faithful Christians, for criminal acts. However, I find it a stretch to assert that God universally...

In my view, no, that's impossible. God saves whom He wills, nothing can stop Him, not even the executioner.

I found this article, I'll read it, but tell me if this seems accurate. It's not very friendly to modern Fundamentalism, but this article isn't recent, either. I have heard dispensationalism is in decline and Fundamentalist camps are becoming more intellectual and Seminary friendly...

I've met people who call themselves 'Fundamentalists' and they take the Bible very seriously. We often agree on things like eternal security, God's complete control, and His greatness. We even agree on some things where I disagree with most Reformed people, like believer's baptism. I'm not sure...

I want to bring Martin Luther's other views into this: God has chosen for His own glory his Elect, and He has also willed the sin and destruction of the sinners. Lutherans will often deny that Luther taught double predestination, but it's gymnastics to do so. From the Bondage of the Will...

Before the (false) incorporation doctrine states could have theirs own state church and all manner of things. Likewise, things like freedom of speech apply to congress, not the local mayor. The Civil Rights Act is not Constitutional. The USA should be vastly more decentralized than it actually is.

I employ a pair of LLMs to organize notes and construct lesson plans. These tools exhibit what would be a profound intellectual deficiency in a human being. They speak in vague generalities, offering (sometimes) correct answers in a manner that suggests the parroting of another's opinion rather...

Concerning Preterism, I cannot subscribe explicitly to its tenets in full, but partial Preterism has to be correct in my reading of Scripture and history. My exegesis of prophetic texts, such as Matthew 24, Daniel, and Revelation, proceeds primarily through the framework of redemptive-historical...

I think it's murder and seems socially dangerous, just on pragmatic tribal grounds. But for pagan eugenics you might argue for special cases of it.

The PCA has been a mixed bag for decades - they had R. C. Sproul but also some very PCUSA-like liberals. There are still good PCA churches, but the ones near me had simply collapsed on catechism and discipline. I did not want to change churches in the first place, but since I went to the OPC a...

I don't disagree, but Seattle isn't exactly a bastion of traditionalism. In some ways it's a weirder version of progressivism than is typical in the East, which is more establishment than radical. On the other hand, the West has always had a part of the population that adheres to frontier...

Two reasons, one is being inducted into our crony economy and consumerist culture. Another is related, because most people cannot afford to pay rent. My husband has a good job, and I have some money from my father. We're probably not going to be living in the car any time soon. But plenty of...

I believe in capital punishment for abortion, but we're so far from that being possible that it's pointless to discuss outside individual outreach, theory, and theology. At present, most of America is joyfully riding towards Hell and the only way we will get anything our way is decentralization...

Theologically liberal and mainline churches are experiencing long term and serious decline. What's not as well known is that fundamentalist, Evangelical and stricter Confessional churches are actually growing. Not only that, but it's not even: in the Northeast it seems nothing replaced the...

Opposing abortion is fine, but don't be ideological. Power is about friends and enemies, not ethics. Politics is war, not reason. If your options are between the pro-slavery emperor who tolerates Christians and the pro-slavery emperor who doesn't, you always pick the former. Otherwise, just stay...

He meant to say, "unless he's a really cool guy"