tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post1358588623874367256..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: Don't Miss the PointPhil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-35012118444349146942012-09-08T13:53:25.679-07:002012-09-08T13:53:25.679-07:00DAC, if you honestly think that in any way is resp...DAC, if you honestly think that <i>in any way</i> is responsive to what I wrote, then I am wondering, without intending any sarcasm, whether English is your second language, of whether there's a reading comprehension issue.<br /><br />What I said was, "answer your own question." What question had you asked? If you've paid the least attention to what we've written, again and again and again, you can answer it.<br /><br />Answer your own question.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-24259338695666501632012-09-08T12:50:25.375-07:002012-09-08T12:50:25.375-07:00Since you insist
How about the time Phil called m...Since you insist<br /><br />How about the time Phil called me an "astute reader"? When he was fooled by someone who created a blog who's entire purpose to mock Phil's fav whipping boy, those nefarious "emerg***ts", which he saw as an actual blog by emergents.<br /><br />There was the time I called shenanigans on Chantry's hit piece on McDondald's church, where at about comment 80 Phil agreed that I was right and TC basically hosed the entire post by making completely unwarranted conclusions based on a completely bogus analysis?<br /><br />Ooops - I guess I didn't read your post - that was two, wasn't it? If you like there have even been a time or two where you admitted my comment was good. David A. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00465387359523299616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-14127205179941798682012-09-07T19:26:55.789-07:002012-09-07T19:26:55.789-07:00Fundamentalists make the Song of Solomon an allego...Fundamentalists make the Song of Solomon an allegory because they are uncomfortable with sex. Reformed folk decide it's really about sex because we are uncomfortable with God's love for us.R.C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13976580613129096869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-28891300646372454632012-09-07T17:24:15.785-07:002012-09-07T17:24:15.785-07:00"For You are a good God and you love mankind...."For You are a good God and you love mankind."<br /><br />This truth penetrates my heart in every Divine Liturgy. Glory to Jesus Christ!Nonnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452040267177962781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-87341165562235150852012-09-07T13:01:58.627-07:002012-09-07T13:01:58.627-07:00Fifteen words. My comment to you is fifteen words ...Fifteen words. My comment to you is fifteen words long. Yet you find a way to try to derail to another subject.<br /><br />Your act has outlived its shelf-life, DAC. Answer the question.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-68466703203588319162012-09-07T12:59:30.401-07:002012-09-07T12:59:30.401-07:00DJP -
Why the always the personal attack? DJP -<br /><br />Why the always the personal attack? David A. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00465387359523299616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-26554865307286119502012-09-07T05:41:10.950-07:002012-09-07T05:41:10.950-07:00Prove you've ever read a word of this blog, DA...Prove you've ever read a word of this blog, DAC, and answer your own question.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-90825989514991665102012-09-07T05:30:58.503-07:002012-09-07T05:30:58.503-07:00@djp
Yet why does Jesus stake his claim on love i...@djp<br /><br />Yet why does Jesus stake his claim on love if the other five sola's are sufficient? Why does Paul?<br /><br />Love is the basis, the underpinning for all else. The other sola's are built upon that framework, not the other way around<br /><br />At least that is the clear, non-ambiguous teaching of Jesus. And I did not even need any chicken bones to figure that out.David A. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00465387359523299616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-25414327160521884712012-09-07T04:55:59.471-07:002012-09-07T04:55:59.471-07:00I love that God's love is unfailing. God's...I love that God's love is unfailing. God's love is a purifying love not a pacifying love~<br /><br /> when God allows various adversities in my life and everything falls apart around me, if I just think of the one attribute that "God is love" I'd misunderstand HIM. When babies die or when people get cancer it's not enough to just know God loves us. If so, he has a funny way of showing it. <br /><br /> I look to the attribute that God is always good and that God ALONE is good! This helps me put God's love in it's right perspective. (Any) goodness in my life is from God. the fact that God (alone)is good tells me the essential truth that God's love in my life is for my good -it is shown at the cross.. I grasp onto the reality that God really (does)care and love me infinitely more than I can possibly imagine<br /> This helps me to surrender to whatever HE chooses to bring into my life because God is love and God is always good so his love is unfailingLindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09418337100329537312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-35957626810657813252012-09-06T20:28:54.885-07:002012-09-06T20:28:54.885-07:00Even better than essays are the songs of contempor...Even better than essays are the songs of contemporary Christian muscicians who weave in the reform theology in their tributes. These can be deeply moving and explain what God has done for mankind in adult terms while filling out the breadth of His love in case by case examples. Stuart Townend "In Christ Alone",or "The Power of the Cross", as an example. There are so many that my hours on the treadmill are filled with joy and I know I am a grinning idiot to those watching.<br /><br />TomWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-87987650128180710462012-09-06T19:11:32.187-07:002012-09-06T19:11:32.187-07:00I witness God's goodness every day, most point...I witness God's goodness every day, most pointedly through my 89 y/o mom. She was an enemy of God for almost all of those years -- confessed Christ 2 years ago. She's not interested in Scripture let alone theology. Yet she knows who God is. She tells me she never feels "good" with the aches and pains of age, she's on oxygen. She's failing. Yet she watches me studying and asks me to read some Scripture to her. The other day I read to her Ps. 71. How good of Him to give her those words. <br /><br />She told me once that she wanted to go to hell to be with her husband, my father. She understands now that she would be alone. In His goodness He taught her that by giving her understanding. Mom knows the goodness of the Lord now.<br /><br />It's incredibly humbling to witness not only her salvation but her submission and trust. <br /><br />God is good. <br /><br />Thank you Frank, this series is piercing.<br /> Sonjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400678595605810974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-32543929316479307312012-09-06T15:42:19.394-07:002012-09-06T15:42:19.394-07:00Poke on, Frank. Poke on.Poke on, Frank. Poke on.Aaron Snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08551668915973379312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-17676131557937120582012-09-06T14:48:34.748-07:002012-09-06T14:48:34.748-07:00Aaron Snell:
The worst part about me is that I am...Aaron Snell:<br /><br />The worst part about me is that I am a volunteer. No on can accuse me of making any money at all on this stuff, so it can only be a handful of other motives. "Glutton for Punishment" may legitimately be one of them.<br /><br />Where this Sunday School lesson goes, btw, is someplace which pokes a finger in the eye of anyone who misses the real weight of the issue that God loves <i>them</i>. What it means for God to love <i>you</i> or <i>me</i> is sort of an unthinkable juggernaut of conviction when we start thinking about the real scope of God's love.FX Turkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16798420127955373559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-57408842670699880422012-09-06T12:16:48.596-07:002012-09-06T12:16:48.596-07:00Frank:
Are you poking your finger in the eye of r...Frank:<br /><br />Are you poking your finger in the eye of reformed systematics? You <i>are</i> a menace, and must be stopped.Aaron Snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08551668915973379312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-19289407718285239782012-09-06T09:15:56.117-07:002012-09-06T09:15:56.117-07:00You can not spend time in Scripture and not see Go...You can not spend time in Scripture and not see God's love. <br /><br />but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.<br /><br />Redemption is the demonstration of love. I think I put Holiness as the primary attribute of God. But Christ's death is a demonstration of His love for us. If not for the love of God for us we never are able as finite, sinful creatures to begin to understand Sovereignty, Providence or the Glory of God. <br /><br />For a personal note...<br />I especially know God's love when I read how He describes his relationship with Israel and Judah through His prophets (like Hosea). <br /><br />I read where Israel and Judah are unfaithful and He still loves them. Where He calls them out for what they are and calls them back to Him. And I can substitute my name for Israel and Judah. I am still overwhelmed with my unfaithfulness and God's faithfulness.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755389262765111213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-59493517551720707272012-09-06T07:53:22.495-07:002012-09-06T07:53:22.495-07:00I've been asking similar questions recently, s...I've been asking similar questions recently, so I'm especially looking forward to the series.Jeremiah Greenwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08299973303636654588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-64274868996946659812012-09-06T07:51:18.257-07:002012-09-06T07:51:18.257-07:00Great stuff Frank.
"For breadth the love of ...Great stuff Frank.<br /><br />"For breadth the love of Jesus is immensity, for length it is eternity, for depth it is immeasurability, and for height it is infinity." CHSKerry James Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06083436735702873300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-61538422898386950362012-09-06T07:09:17.482-07:002012-09-06T07:09:17.482-07:00@ Greg Howard:
The world prefers its version of G...@ Greg Howard:<br /><br />The world prefers its version of God’s love. God is all-inclusive and will not hold anyone responsible for disparaging His holiness. Yet, how do these people expect God to vindicate His holiness? It is far easier for us to explain a supreme being, who is rapturously in love with totally depraved human beings, than it is to explain a wrathful God who demands His holiness be vindicated. <br /><br /><br /><br />Mary Elizabeth Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08915438088186414796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-321727771739610262012-09-06T06:50:51.493-07:002012-09-06T06:50:51.493-07:00Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the sk...Could we with ink the ocean fill,<br /><br />And were the skies of parchment made,<br /><br />Were every stalk on earth a quill,<br /><br />And every man a scribe by trade,<br /><br />To write the love of God above,<br /><br />Would drain the ocean dry.<br /><br />Nor could the scroll contain the whole,<br /><br />Though stretched from sky to sky.Ted Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558474337614839545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-68876039664958172462012-09-06T06:42:01.850-07:002012-09-06T06:42:01.850-07:00It seems to me that people who identify as Reforme...It seems to me that people who identify as Reformed do so in part because they feel that the less cuddly attributes of God (justice, sovereignty, what have you) have been neglected elsewhere. That's certainly one of the things that commends the Reformed viewpoint to me. The trouble, of course, is that the love of God properly understood far transcends mere warm fuzziness; but to get past that you have to bring in these other, harsher-sounding notes.<br /><br />That said, I think MTHudson (and Cent in the original post) are on target. It's easy to fall off the horse on the other side, taking pride in one's theological astuteness at the expense of living out that most basic commandment to love your neighbor as yourself.<br /><br />Thanks for the post. Looking forward to the rest of the series.Greg Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00221067307812579628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-4600266357731121002012-09-06T06:35:30.925-07:002012-09-06T06:35:30.925-07:00Healing of backslidings: "I will heal their b...Healing of backslidings: "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely" (Hosea 14:4), without reluctance or hesitation. "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it" (Song 8:7). Such is God's love to His people--invincible, unquenchable. Not only is there no possibility of its expiring, but also the black waters of backsliding cannot extinguish it, nor the floods of unbelief put it out."<br /><br />A quote from Pink's The Attributes of God. Love this series, Frank.Mary Elizabeth Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08915438088186414796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-49626031895308086082012-09-06T06:08:03.733-07:002012-09-06T06:08:03.733-07:00The five solas absolutely are sufficient, and they...The five solas absolutely are sufficient, and they absolutely are the forest, and they absolutely do succeed where <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6-b7CONDI" rel="nofollow">quoting Dean Martin songs</a> cannot. The only way I know how important love is, and what it means, is Sola Scriptura; and the way that love connects with me is Sola Gratia, Solo Fide, and Solo Christo. Seen and received that way (and that way alone), love results in Soli Deo Gloria.<br /><br />Goodness.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-46279355777088366342012-09-06T05:43:07.341-07:002012-09-06T05:43:07.341-07:00I don't doubt the paucity of essays. It's ...I don't doubt the paucity of essays. It's hardly a town secret that the Reformed tradition has difficulty explicating a full-throated doctrine of the love of God. Systemic imperatives make that a challenge. On the other side, of course, you have the way of a Rob Bell, where love "wins" even over human responsibility. Looking forward to seeing where the full throat of Turk takes us.James Scott Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07641370124346172648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-36750642834937264332012-09-06T04:50:42.461-07:002012-09-06T04:50:42.461-07:00"Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tel..."Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so" Thanks for starting my morning off with my favorite song. I use this to teach my grandchildren the sufficiency of the Scriptures. we do not know God's love because we "feel it in our hearts" but because He told us in His Word. It may appear to be a preschool song but it should not be now. what a blessed, comforting thought...Jeus loves me, even me, with all my sin. Thanks, Frank.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135676378678046643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-44460365938976210462012-09-06T04:36:34.305-07:002012-09-06T04:36:34.305-07:00Sola Amare - By Love Alone
This has been an idea ...Sola Amare - By Love Alone<br /><br />This has been an idea running around my head for a while now.<br /><br />The Five Solas - all true, all fundamental, in the end, are not enough - not enough because they do not tell us how to live as Christians. Yet, so often, it is all the reformed focus on. They have lasered in on the five solas, and missed the big picture - they see the tree, but not the forest.<br /><br />The Big Picture - how shall we live as Christians? We shall live by love.<br /><br />22:34 Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together. 22:35 And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him: 22:36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 22:37 Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,and with all your mind.’ 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 22:39 The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 22:40 All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” (Mathew 22:34-40, NET Bible)<br /><br />Over and over - the commandment is two fold - Love God, and Love your Neighbor.<br /><br />Sola AmareDavid A. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00465387359523299616noreply@blogger.com