La mente limitada de Job y el problema del mal (Job 13:15)
El mundo está lleno del mal y ha estado así por mucho tiempo. Al escribir esto, la pandemia Covid-19 ha rodeado al globo, y hay disturbios en todo el país en respuesta a lo que parece ser un caso de la brutalidad policial. Muchas personas están muriendo. Aún más están sufriendo. No creo que el […]
Three False Calvinist Assumptions
I was explaining Free Grace theology to a Calvinist when he said that I really believed in salvation by works! That’s not something I’ve ever been accused of before, so I was curious why he thought that. During our conversation, it became clear to me that he was making three big assumptions that are worth […]
Jesus Is Not the Father
I recently heard a worship leader, in a moment of extemporaneous prayer, say, “Jesus is the Father and the Spirit and the Son!” I’m going to chalk that little bit of heresy to (1) the leader being young; (2) theological education being low both within and without the churches; and (3) the teaching of Trinitarian […]
Three Differences Between Jesus and the Grim Reaper
You’ve seen cartoons of the Grim Reaper, haven’t you? Artists depict his skeletal figure as clad in a black hooded cloak, carrying a scythe, waiting to reap his next victim (for the history of the figure see here). If you read the news, the Grim Reaper is all over the headlines. There are riots and […]
Tarifas de gimnasio: una parábola
¿Gratuita o no? Un día, una madre joven decidió que quería ponerse en forma. Había oído hablar de un benefactor adinerado quien fundó varios gimnasios y les otorgó suficiente dinero para ser gratuitos y abiertos para todos. Sin embargo, cuando ella visitó los gimnasios y preguntó acerca de la inscripción, descubrió que habían cambiado sus […]
Feelings Are A Bad Reason to Be Mormon
I recently asked a Mormon for three evidences that would convince any fair-minded person that his religion is true. He said, “The same as Oliver Cowdery’s: ‘Did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the matter? What greater witness can you have than from God?’” That is a quote from Doctrine and Covenants 6:23. […]
Is the Gospel Missing in John?
By Shawn Lazar I was reading an article by a mid-Acts theologian about the saving message in John’s Gospel (“The Gospel Missing in John”). Although I sympathize with emphasizing the “Jewishness” of the Gospels, and I’ve learned a great deal from mid-Acts and Acts 28 dispensationalists, I think the contrast between the Twelve and Paul […]
Two Reflections on Ecclesiastes
By Shawn Lazar Ecclesiastes in a Syllogism As I was making lunch, my son, Zane, came into the kitchen and asked, “Has it been an hour yet?” “An hour from when?” “No! Just, has it been an hour?” “From now? I’ll have to start counting.” “No from later.” “Well, if it’s an hour from later, […]
Turn Away! (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness […]
Los beneficios de la cruz: ¿reales o potenciales?
Estaba hablando con un amigo acerca de las diferentes perspectivas de la expiación que hay en los círculos de la Gracia Gratuita. Llegamos al asunto de la potencialidad versus la actualidad. ¿Qué logró realmente la cruz? ¿Qué logró potencialmente? Se me ocurrió una ilustración de las diferentes opiniones sobre la expiación que existen en los […]