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The doctrine of inherited sin, or the sin nature, is a central tenet of Christian theology. It raises the question of how sin is transmitted from generation to generation and whether Scripture supports the claim that it is passed specifically through the father rather than the mother. This essay...

The following essay is the result of an experiment I performed with a very specific sort of prompt that I used in ChatGPT. I wanted an essay that could serve as a primer for those interested in understanding how Open Theism differs from the "Settled View" and why those who hold to it consider it...

There are two Greek philosophical ideas that have had an inordinate impact on Christian doctrine over the centuries. Absolute immutability, where God cannot change in any way whatsoever Divine Timelessness, where God is not at all temporal and exists entirely outside of time We talk a lot...

Personally, I have been taught from the time I was a child that the so called "Garden Tomb" is the tomb in which Jesus was laid and from which He arose and that He was crucified on the very nearby hill which to this day has an escarpment that resembles a skull. However, I don't recall any...

Panentheism is the view that the universe is part of God while He also transcends it. This doctrine blurs the Creator-creature distinction that is foundational to biblical revelation. In this thread, I want to present and examine some biblical and philosophical arguments arguments against...

I watched a video that cited the following quote. I was so impressed with it that I wanted to share it with you guys here. Remember it the next time some atheist accuses you of making the "God did it." argument. It is they who make such an argument, only it isn't God its mindless evolution over...

Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: An Examination of Reformed Theology's Terminology One of the central debates in Christian theology, particularly in regard to the Reformed tradition, is the relationship between God's sovereignty and human responsibility. Reformed theology, as...

I don't know about you but I listen to a lot of hymns. We used to sing them at church when I was kid and the further modern churches have gotten from singing them, the more they lost me as even an attendee, never mind an active member. I particularly enjoy watching the Bill Gaither videos. The...

I've been doing some reading and studying lately. Much of which is in response to some rather wacky arguments that I've been confronted with concerning the issue of divine immutability. I had someone actually attempt to argument that the doctrine of divine immutability logically required the...

I was recently discussing the justice of the death penalty when the person I was talking with brought up the fact that God didn't have David executed for murdering Uriah the Hittite, nor did He let Saul's involvement in Stephen's stoning, which if it wasn't murder, it was certainly an unjust...

I need some help solving this puzzle. I've fiddled with it for hours and hours and I just cannot figure it out. I've looked online for solutions and it seems to be a quite unique version of this puzzle to the point that there isn't a single example of it anywhere online - until now, of...

The two videos below are, without a doubt, the best videos I have ever seen that deal with Einstein's Theory of Relativity in a manner that does not require the ontological existence of time or space and the difference between physics (ontological) vs. mathematics (epistemological). "It is not...

So, recently I've been active on a couple of other web forums. I won't name them because I strongly suspect that my experience would be the same wherever I went - except for here - and so it doesn't matter which ones they were. There is one site that I posted on yesterday and this morning...

I've not delved much at all into ChatGPT and the little bit I have has been rather uninteresting really. This morning, I woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep and so decided to ask ChatGPT what the word Logos meant. Here's the results.... Clete: What is the best English translation for...

What percentage of Christians believe God predestined this evil world we live in? What percentage of Christians are just blatant hypocrites? What percentage of Christians go to Sunday school class primarily to catch up on everyone's dirty laundry list (a.k.a. prayer requests)? What percentage...

Maybe the bravest comedian alive!

The purpose of this thread is to discuss Bob Enyart's book, The Plot. The book, I believe, is the best theological treatise written since Martin Luther nailed something on the door of a church somewhere. If you have read his book then your participation here is welcome and encouraged. If you...

Super short video says it all. God is good, therefore Calvinism is false...

This thread is intended to collect various questions that Calvinists cannot answer without contradicting their own doctrine. I'll update the list below as new questions are posed. 1. If God is immutable, how did He become a man? (John 1:1 & 14) 2. If a child of innocent age, but not one of the...

The following is an essay written several years ago by a poster here that went by the user name "Lion" (if memory serves me correctly!). He was a member of Bob Enyart's congregation at the time and may still be a member of that church. The point being that I am not the author of what follows but...