Ad fontes.

Autonomy as most contemporaries understand it is bad, actually.

My Response To Bro. Oloyede (1): To clarify PSam's points so that we can identify the assumptions & misrepresentations of PSam's sermon, & a grave misunderstanding of God's Sovereignty in your post below, I will start by laying out a summary of PSam's 8-minute sermon (I also

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the modern scientific mindset is not intuitive. its easy to forget that you have to learn it. as you see below, left to their own devices, people make inferences that are closer to a system from antiquity or even alchemy: the sun generates heat and light, therefore it is fire.

Telling myself "I'm definitely reading that next" about 7 different books simultaneously

"What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment." - C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

God gave us Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Songs of Songs and many other parts of other books contain songs etc. The biggest book in the Bible is a poetical book, yet poetry is completely lost in our theology, training and thought. Think about it.

All the talk about “retrieval” yet there’s hardly any retrieval of poetry in Christian thought. The reason why everything is ugly is because Christians have lost sense of beauty.

Correction, §4: "r̶a̶r̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶e̶" rationale.

Socratic Questioning.

In all things, our God remains ever the living, active, personal Agent Who does all things freely and well, in accordance with His wise counsel. Any faithful consideration of this matter must properly recognise and hold both together, without neglecting either.

to Himself the right to open as He deems best. Importunate prayer moves God, yes — insofar as it moves within His will and not against it: whether in relation to His universal benevolence (i.e., His antecedent will) or His wise governance of history (i.e., His consequent will).

God's goodness is not univocal. Our goodness may be like His, but His goodness is not exactly like ours. Indeed, His goodness is not a mirror of our desire, but the measure by which our desires are rightly ordered. The Lord Who commands us to ask, seek, and knock also reserves…

sometimes imperceptibly, a subtle shift from affirming divine benevolence to presuming divine obligation. God indeed desires and wills the good of His creation, but that good does not always coincide with what we, bound by the moment, perceive to be needed or best.

It builds its case almost entirely upon the fact that God delights in our importunity (or, more precisely, the rarionale behind it) and in doing good, while overlooking that His [good] action is governed by His wisdom and freedom. From this neglect there arises,…

righteousness. The problem with the thesis that “it is always God’s will to do X" in the present age — whether it is to heal sickness or to bestow material prosperity, for example — is precisely that it fails to reckon with the absolute reality of God’s sovereignty.

He beholds in it faith that clings to His goodness, dependence that confesses His ability and sufficiency, and love that will not let Him go. Yet, the same Scripture bears unwavering witness to God’s sovereign freedom — that He acts as He wills, in perfect wisdom and…

Scripture indeed teaches that God takes delight in the earnest persistence of His children in prayer. Like the friend who knocks at midnight and the widow who will not cease her plea, the believer’s importunity does not weary Him. Rather, it pleases Him, for the reason that…

4. 'Man/Male' and 'Woman/Female' are faint and blurred reflections of the more fundamental Forms of Masculine and Feminine. 5. God, in relation to creation, is Utterly and Perfectly Masculine, and creation entire is feminine in relation to Him.

3. Man and Woman alike bear the Divine Image: in reason, in vocation, and supremely in Christ, the true Image of God, their Destiny — for, "as we have borne the image of the man of earth, so too we shall bear the image of the Man of Heaven."