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May 15 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Apr 16 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Aug 28 |
answered | From whom does faith come? |
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Aug 23 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Aug 6 |
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Dying for Christ spelling |
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Jul 31 |
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How can a Wholly Good God Deliberately Create Evil? Also, the language of second(ary) causes comes from WCF V.IV: "He orders them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently." |
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Jul 31 |
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How can a Wholly Good God Deliberately Create Evil? But, it sounds I misinterpreted the analogy--it is not between Macbeth and a pre-fall Adam (through whom evil came into the world), but between Macbeth and an unredeemed sinner today |
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Jul 31 |
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How can a Wholly Good God Deliberately Create Evil? I had in mind, e.g., WCF IX, imagining him, if the analogy between Macbeth and Adam is to hold, in a pre-fall state "had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it." |
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Jul 31 |
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How can a Wholly Good God Deliberately Create Evil? is Macbeth really a moral agent, though? Does he, in any sense, have a "free" will to chose to sin or not to sin? WCF refers to secondary causes through which God acts such that sin is never directly attributable to him; Shakespeare, on the other hand, directly writes Macbeth's thoughts and deeds with his own pen. |
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Jul 31 |
asked | What is synthetic theology? |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? Don't take any of that to denigrate your answer or reasoning. I quite agree with you, but I'm just looking to strengthen the support for the position. |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? Running the risk of the moderators kicking us over to chat for extended commenting.... Perhaps synthetic theology doesn't mean what I thought it meant. Actually, I know of a good forum to ask such a question! As far as interpretation being informed by doctrine... I see your point. We're certainly influenced by it, but it begs the question on where your systematics comes from. I argue that it should be biblically based itself, whence arises the question "is there scriptural support for regeneration preceding conversion", which may bring us right back where we started! |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? added 11 characters in body |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? Actually, I shouldn't say yes and no. It does answer it... it's just not the answer I was hoping for :). But I appreciate your commitment to what the scripture is intending, and not trying to read into it something just to support your position. |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? Yes and no. Actually, the thing I liked about your answer is that it's the only one citing scriptural evidence rather than just theological positions. But it sounds from your comment that you need the synthetics to inform your position. |
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Jul 31 |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? Also, I hope you don't mind my edits... I'm just a little OCD with separating out the quotations--it just makes it easier for me to read. Feel free to reverse my edit if you disagree. |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? Adrian, +1 and thanks for the response--I'm most interested in the Ephesians passage. I assume your position is that the "it" refers to faith, right? I can see this also explained as though "it" refers to salvation, i.e., "...salvation is the gift of God, not a result of works..." Would you consider expanding on that? |
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Jul 31 |
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From whom does faith come? added formatting to set apart the scriptural quotations |
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Jul 30 |
asked | From whom does faith come? |
