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Paul Draper's forthcoming book is the nail in the coffin of this line of thinking. He shows that atheism is very much a serious hypothesis.

RT @RandalRauser: William Lane Craig defends "gruesome" child killing as a way to be holy. I respond:.

This quote from William Lane Craig still makes my stomach turn. Craig claims the Israelites needed to brutally slaughter children to be taught the importance of remaining loyal to Yahweh. As he says, "The very gruesomeness of the slaughter of the Canaanites was the most powerful.

RT @majestyofreason: An excellent new paper defends deflationary (UPD-like) solutions to infinitary paradoxes like the Grim Reaper paradox.….

Most apologetic "tactics" feel like cheap tricks. This is because the tactics don't emerge naturally out of a well-developed theory. Such a theory uses the best insights from philosophy and theology. Such a theory is deeply rooted in Scripture and constantly interacts with it.

RT @WesleyLHuff: Such good content from @gavinortlund. Make sure you’re watching his latest on Sola Scriptura.

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Greg Boyd argues at length for a non-violent reading of Old Testament violence. It's telling that Boyd leaves out the key part about intergenerational punishment when he quotes Exodus 34:6-7. As Boyd says, "A clear expression of the normative conception of Yahweh in the OT is.

In this quote, C.S. Lewis claims God's freedom doesn't consists in having the ability to do otherwise, a garden of forking paths, leeway, or alternative possibilities. Rather, God's freedom is the result of God being the source of his action. Lewis embraces Source Libertarianism,.

Given all the objections to and issues with PSA, I'm working on an alternative theory of the atonement. It's called Incarnational Substitutionary Atonement (ISA). The beauty of incarnational substitution is that it makes the gospel more amazing, not less. I've discovered that.

Molinism vs. Open Theism: Which Should I Prefer?.My main current project is addressing biblical violence. How can God be morally justified in issuing herem (total-kill) commands in the Old Testament?. My Covenant Virtue Ethics solution is based on the Target-Mode distinction. It.

RT @NathanBozeman2: This is a popular yet fundamental misunderstanding of Pascal's Wager. Pascal was not giving a reasoned argument to bel….

PSA faces what I call the the Divine Coherence Dilemma. On PSA the Father inflicts penal suffering on the Son in our place. Here's the dilemma this creates. 1. That the Father punishes the Son implies either: (a) their wills diverge in the act of punishment, or (b) their wills.

For most of my life as a Christian, I saw sin through a legal lens. It was like a debt needing repayment. But I've come to see the Bible's deeper story is one of broken relationship. Jesus didn't just pay a fine. On the cross, he took on everything our rebellion earned: exile,.

This is a PSA: there's a way to avoid the cosmic child abuse charge leveled against PSA while retaining the substitutionary component. It’s called Covenantal Restoration. All the substitution, none of the awkward Trinitarian family dynamics. Ask your theologian if it's right for.