Cynic

Following is a message I received today from a fellow who webcasts on a service called PalTalk. Since I’ve actually listened only to a few minutes of several of his broadcasts, I don’t know what ability he has to challenge and refute Schoenheit’s Socinianism.

Following is a message I received today from a fellow who webcasts on a service called PalTalk. Since I’ve actually listened only to a few minutes of several of his broadcasts, I don’t know what ability he has to challenge and refute Schoenheit’s Socinianism.

Although I currently attend a Calvinistic Baptist church (that is not affiliated with any Baptist convention or group of churches), a PCA church I attended for a couple years impacted me more than any other, due to the God’s-sovereignty-and-grace message of the church’s teaching elder (its minister) and interaction I had with him and a guy who was a quite broadly capable armchair theologian. The doctrine of unconditional election (held high in the PCA) runs hard against assumptions about God generally held by Wayfers and ex-Wayfers. In considering it, I recommend reading The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, by Loraine Boettner (http://www.ccel.org/ccel/boettner/predest.pdf ). I found Boettner’s following argument inescapably compelling: “A further important proof that Paul taught the doctrine which Calvinists have understood him to teach is found in the objections which he put in the mouths of his opponents,—that it represented God as unrighteous: ‘Is there unrighteousness with God?’ Rom. 9:14; and, that it destroyed man's responsibility: ‘Thou wilt then say unto me, Why doth He still find fault? For who withistandeth His will?’ Rom. 9:19. These are the very objections which today, on first thought, spring into men's minds, in opposition to the Calvinistic doctrine of Predestination; but they have not even the least plausibility when directed against the Arminian doctrine. A doctrine which does not afford the least grounds for these objections cannot have been the one that the Apostle taught.”

Danny, Thanks for the info on Evan.

Anyone heard from him?

Peter Singer’s name recognition should be characterized in terms of infamy rather than fame. It has sprung largely from his advocacy of a state of affairs in which parents would be allowed to have disabled newborns euthanized for up to 28 days or so following birth. Among things qualifying a baby for parentally approved extermination in Singer's view reportedly are Down’s Syndrome and hemophilia (see http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff091399.asp and http://www.michaelspecter.com/ny/1999/1999...hilosopher.html ). Nat Hentoff, who has referred to Singer as an “apostle of infanticide,” quotes Singer as having written: '"Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons."' '"[T]he life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee."' (Italicization is mine.) Singer also has some lower-tier notoriety due to a quasi-review (titled “Heavy Petting”) he did of a book on bestiality. In the piece, Singer, an animal rights whacko, conducted jihad against the distinctiveness of humans by minimizing the sexual barrier between man and beast. Commenting on an orangutan’s attempted rape of a human female, Singer maintained the attack should be inoffensive in respect to its being committed by an animal, though he recognized it as disturbing on the basis of its potential violence. It can be read at http://www.nerve.com/Opinions/Singer/heavyPetting/main.asp .

My post on this page references some interesting material I came across on this. The link should, but will not, send you to the particular post.

It is more than just a bit outrageous that LCM and other TWI leaders picked up OT death sentences and shook them at people, while, according to terms of the Mosaic covenant, they themselves would have incurred death sentences for posturing as if representing God and foretelling events that failed to come to pass.

Waterbuffalo, This might not be what you’re looking for, but you still might want to check out the following links on “The History of the Jesus Movement”: http://web.archive.org/web/19980208055452/...g/jpindex.shtml http://web.archive.org/web/19980208113938/...n.org/jp03.html The page arrived at by the second link mentions Doop (the author spells the name as “Dopp”), Heefner and Wierwille.

I have been a heavy salt user since I was a child, and started using kosher salt several years ago for its distinctively intense saltiness over regular salt. As I remember, Morton Kosher Salt (which is sold around here in Kroger stores) and the regular goyim stuff are virtually equal in sodium content. Coarse and brute saltiness as an ultimate savory good ended for me, however, after I stuck my arm into one of those public blood pressure cuffs located in some stores. I’m now using Morton Lite Salt Mixture, which tastes as good as regular table salt (on most things), but has about half the sodium content of regular salt or kosher salt. Recent discoveries: Tabasco Chipotle Sauce, Newcastle Brown Ale.

Galen, At initial glance, the 23k price does not seem exorbitant to me, but it might pay to get more estimates. Could you post a description (as well as the manufacturer and model number, if you have it) of the pump or lift station assembly the contractor is proposing to install? Sewage pumps vary significantly in price. Also, it would help to know some details about the septic field (e.g. total trench length) and dimensions of the area to be excavated and filled for the house.

1. Eastern Orthodox (100%) 2. Roman Catholic (100%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (98%) 4. Seventh Day Adventist (94%) 5. Orthodox Quaker (89%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (70%)

The National Endowment for the Arts needs to make a grant towards the cost of the sign and the cost of an exhibit carrying out its suggestion.

Although I found his invoking of postmodernism irritatingly gratuitous, the author of this piece appears to make some sound points. [From: “Insights From Postmodernism’s Emphasis On Interpretive Communities In The Interpretation Of Romans 7,” by Walt Russell (Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 37:4, December, 1994)]

First, it was "pair" juice. Now, it is "writed."

Galileo was not burned at the stake or executed.

This might be my fault. I might have ticked Song off, or something, by saying I was understanding more than half his posts.

I haven’t seen Chip in quite a few years, but he is a history professor somewhere.

I am “Hunk California.”

Superb set up, there, Hills. Would I take him in? No. Hell, no!!! Let someone at the pound put him down.

It looks like at least a tentative "answer for science" might be to go check some other English Bible versions in order to assess the soundness of an implicitly leveled charge that Gen. 1:20 and Gen. 2:19 are contradictory passages. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...=8;49;15;31;47;

Song, You or I have gotten to the place where I understand you, think I understand you, or think that I think I understand you more than half the time — which possibly should be causing me some concern.

From http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0513,hentoff,62489,6.html : Long Gone, The "judicial murder" charge is possibly some demagogic hyperbole from Hentoff, but Greer's alleged failure to allow an MRI test and further neurological evaluation, along with the refusal by federal courts to intervene, seems, at minimum, repulsively cold-souled -- especially against the background of the nature and extent of scrutiny that get judicially bestowed on some death-penalty cases.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0513,hentoff,62489,6.html

Danny, Thanks for the info. I think that must be it. I had thought, however, that an indefinite/definite distinction between the words was pressed more emphatically than that (i.e. that heteros, the one having a definite aspect about its usage, was said to mean "another" when only two ~are~ involved, or when the others ~are~ of a different category), and that the words definite and indefinite were used in describing the distinction. I might be conflating what I read in the AC syllabus, however, with what I read from other TWI materials or from Bullinger.