Thoughts of Francis Turretin
Friday, April 12, 2013

The Works of John Witherspoon

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John Witherspoon is one signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was a minister and president of Princeton Seminary. I'm not a b...

Miscellaneous Free Translations

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Some of these works may be of greater interest to some of my audience than to others, but I'm thankful that each of the following curren...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Limits on Patriarchy - Deborah and other Prophetesses

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Apparently all but one of the judges that judged Israel were male. The one exception was Deborah. She provides us with an example of a lim...

Free Debates Featuring James White

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I was reluctant to post this list, because I'm concerned that people who might otherwise support Dr. White's ministry by buying copi...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Clarifying the Rebuttal to the Necessity Argument for the Papacy

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Scott Alt has posted a response to my earlier post , which mentioned the fact that the papacy is not necessary.  Mr. Alt's primary erro...

What's Wrong with This Image? (Blessed Virgin Mary Meets Grandma Eve)

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Can You Spot the Errors? The image at right was posted by Bryan Cross over at Called to Communion as a comment on a post regarding the ...

Sabas on The Twenty-Two Greek Letters and Their Significance

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I had heard of a number of authors who testify to the fact that the Jewish canon is (and has for millenia been) twenty-two books. It was in...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Vatican Vacancy and Papal Necessity

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For a brief time earlier this year, there was no pope - no bishop of Rome for the Roman Catholics. The "Camerlengo of the Holy Roman C...

Pressing Chris Date's Retreat

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Over at "Rethinking Hell," Mr. Chris Date has retreated a few steps in his discussion of the meaning of the term "punishment...
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Review of "The Myth of Persecution" by Dr. Candida Moss

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Dr. Candida Moss has provided a popular-level (as distinct from scholarly-level) account of what she calls the "myth of persecution....

The Real Francis Turretin on Sin's Relation to God

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The Real Francis Turretin on sin's relation to God: Theology treats sin not as belonging to God, but as holding certain relationship to ...

Google Reader Replacement - Feedly?

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I have enjoyed using Google Reader for keeping up to date with various blogs and other websites.  However, Google is apparently going to dis...

St. Josaphat aka Buddha

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At page 88 of The Myth of Persecution , Dr. Moss drew attention to a particularly glaring case of false saints in the case of St. Josaphat. ...

Rhetorical Excess - Religious Persecution and Idolatry

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Rhetorical flourishes are like any other form of emphasis.  They work well when used occasionally and accurately, and not when used constant...
Monday, April 08, 2013

Candida Moss and the Truth Value of Martyrdom

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In The Myth of Persecution , Dr. Moss repeats the assertion that martyrdom is used as proof of the truth of the martyrs' views. For exam...

Hell and Romans 12

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One surprisingly compelling passage in favor of the idea of eternal conscious torment in the New Testament is Romans 12:20, where Paul expla...

The Myth of Whose Persecution?

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Ironically, in the acknowledgments section, Dr. Moss portrays herself as feeling persecuted! She writes (p. 261): I might not have had th...
Sunday, April 07, 2013

State's Interest in Marriage?

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During debate in the Supreme Court, one of the justices made an interesting comment. JUSTICE GINSBURG: Mr. Clement, the problem is that it...

Candida Moss on Bishops and the Bishop of Rome in the Early Church

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In The Myth of Persecution , Dr. Candida Moss (professor of New Testament at Notre Dame) makes two interesting comments regarding the early ...
Saturday, April 06, 2013

Candida Moss' Surprising Omission of Jesus and Hebrews' Appeal to Abel

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One surprising omission from Dr. Candida Moss' book, "The Myth of Persecution," is discussion of Jesus' own framework for ...
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