tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post7494110098496168812..comments2024-03-17T08:25:33.806+00:00Comments on Thoughts of Francis Turretin: Ponter's Last StandTurretinfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-32065974405262542232008-09-18T23:39:00.000+01:002008-09-18T23:39:00.000+01:00Ponter next asserts, "2) However, we do know the t...<I><BR/>Ponter next asserts, "2) However, we do know the topic of limited atonement was debated in Bullinger’s time. It was clarified by Prosper in the 5thC. It was debated again by Gottschalk in the 9thC. It was settled and clarified again by Lombard in the 12thC. Lombard’s synthesis was reaffirmed by Thomas in the 13thC. We know that Bucer debated it in the 16thC, in some form or another. We GeneMBridgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10504383610477532374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-33823794313888196832008-09-18T21:57:00.000+01:002008-09-18T21:57:00.000+01:00Oh yeah, another thing comes to me as I reread Pon...Oh yeah, another thing comes to me as I reread Ponter's words. It occurs to me that most mindsets of these eras of debate cited by Ponter thought of the earth as a saucer and not as a globe! We do find in Scripture several warranted thoughts of the earth to be what we now know the earth to be, a globe, and in light of eternity, not an overly "old" globe at that!<BR/><BR/>Especially here:[[...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-31487849055883941372008-09-18T18:04:00.000+01:002008-09-18T18:04:00.000+01:00Man, TF, you are very very insightful and playful ...Man, TF, you are very very insightful and playful at best!<BR/><BR/>I do find it somewhat of an offense with the degree these blokes go in their pejoratives by way of the hypocrisy in their staged pretense in this debate with you.<BR/><BR/>One must be "born again" from death, to be alive with and in Christ.<BR/><BR/>There must be a cessation of that Adamic affect effecting the outcomes Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-85515358590211724232008-09-18T17:20:00.000+01:002008-09-18T17:20:00.000+01:00"How does any one "dead" have an attitude of willf..."How does any one "dead" have an attitude of willful defiance?"<BR/><BR/>It is an interesting question, but more for Mr. Ponter than myself, I think.Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-19079820443659236242008-09-18T17:17:00.000+01:002008-09-18T17:17:00.000+01:00TF,at it again, I read?This very first thought jum...TF,<BR/><BR/>at it again, I read?<BR/><BR/>This very first thought jumped off the page as I read Ponter's response:<BR/><BR/>[Its not meant as a pejorative term, but as a way to describing an attitude of willful defiance.]<BR/><BR/>I have one question for you and Ponter after posting, pasting some verses and thoughts:<BR/><BR/>Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com