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Sometimes in the effort to defend sola scriptora we wrongly argue solo scriptora.
Mark Driscoll
Four Points (25 min) http://theresurgence.com/2011/07/25/four-points-of-the-movement1.6K
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We may know not God in the depths of His absolute being. But we can at least know Him in so far as He reveals Himself in His relation to us. The question, therefore, is not as to the possibility of a knowledge of God in the unfathomableness of His being, but is : Can we know God as He enters into relations with the world and with ourselves? God has entered into relations with us in His revelations of Himself, and supremely in Jesus Christ; and we Christians humbly claim that through this Self-revelation we do know God to be the true God, and have real acquaintance with His character and will. Neither is it correct to say that this knowledge which we have of God is only a relative knowledge. It is in part a knowledge of the absolute nature of God as well.Side-Lights on Christian Doctrine, p. 11
There are numbers who mystify themselves and others by a lot of pious talk about obtaining the Lords mind or discovering Gods will for them, which when carefully analyzed amounts to nothing better than a vague uncertainty or a personal impulse. God's mind or will my reader, is made known in His Word, and He never wills anything for us which to the slightest degree clashes with that heavenly Rule.Life and Times of Elijah (8.89%)
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Don't kid yourself. Sin is an onramp to death. If you get on it and don't repent, turn around, and exit, you will find the landscape getting darker, grosser, filthier, and deadlier. Porn Again Christian (Chapter 4)
There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types want to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a pride fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity.
Many of us have become wordly. You think that wordly means that you say certain words. Wordly means that you sometimes don't have courage. That sometimes you don't speak truthfully. Wordliness is saying well someone was offended and we need to apologize. Maybe they should have been offended. We worship a guy who got murdered. Sermon - Christ Controversy and Cutting words
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