September 2005

Letters

September 1, 2005

Dear Dave and the rest at TBC, After reading Dave’s book Debating Calvinism , I realized that this is a pretty serious issue. I was comforted when I was going through the book of Genesis and noticed in chapter 24, verse 57-58: “And they said, We will call the damsel,...Read more

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News Alert

September 1, 2005

The Sentinel, 08/04/2005 : Vacation Bible schools are usually pretty staid affairs, but St. John’s Episcopal Church in Carlisle [PA] is tapping into popular culture this year by inviting “Harry Potter” to help teach lessons behind the scriptures. “The way I look at it, you have to reach...people where they...Read more

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Question: In both your books and the newsletter you have spoken against Christians practicing yoga....Aren’t you keeping many from a helpful and healthy exercise by warning against yoga?

September 1, 2005

Question: In both your books and the newsletter you have spoken against Christians practicing yoga. The 5/19/05 Christianity Today online has an article in which the author testifies that yoga has never had any negative effect on her because she considers it merely to be stretching exercises and her focus...Read more

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Question: In the July ’05 Letters section, “TF of Ireland,” a self-proclaimed “Calvinist,” acknowledged that Tom and Dave are saved....Can you extend a statement of being a fellow believer to TF (and other Calvinists) as he has to you?

September 1, 2005

Question: In the July ’05 Letters section, “TF of Ireland,” a self-proclaimed “Calvinist,” acknowledged that Tom and Dave are saved. Is it possible for someone who believes only in the soteriology of Calvin to be saved? Specifically, that God has to first change a person’s heart. Then…with the gift of...Read more

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Question: Do you believe the Bible teaches traducianism or creationism, i.e., does God create a new spirit for each person at the time of conception, or is Adam’s spirit the only one that God created out of nothing?

September 1, 2005

Question: Do you believe the Bible teaches traducianism or creationism, i.e., does God create a new spirit for each person at the time of conception, or is Adam’s spirit the only one that God created out of nothing? Answer: The soul and spirit of Adam, the first man, like his...Read more

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Quotable

September 1, 2005

God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his choice between good and evil. When he chooses to do evil, he does not thereby countervail the sovereign will of God but fulfills it, inasmuch as...Read more

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Bless the Lord

September 1, 2005

We look to God to bless us, and hope and pray that He will, especially when we have some urgent need. But who ever thinks of blessing God? Yet the repeated usage of this expression in Scripture makes it clear that we are to do so; and that something more...Read more