Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe
[This is the first post in the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] Recently, I’ve been working through Mark Driscoll’s Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe. I thought it might be helpful to offer a bit of play-by-play, for a couple of reasons at least. One is that the book itself claims to be what Christians should believe,…
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Millennium
[This post is part of the Eschatology series] I realize not only has this blog been somewhat neglected, but this eschatology series has been as well. Some of that, to be honest, is due to lack of interest on my part. The other part of it is the cognitive dissonance that I experienced in trying…
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The Atheist’s Bible
The other day, I was thinking to myself how helpful it would be for my studies if there was an equivalent Bible, but for atheists. Maybe there is such a thing when considered conceptually, but there certainly isn’t an authoritative written source that all atheists agree to be normative. Or is there? Honestly it would…
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Atonement: Redemption
[This post is part of the Atonement series] Tomorrow is Good Friday, and of course Sunday is Easter. This then may turn out to be the last post explicitly dealing with the atonement. Not because I’m finished studying it (especially with respect to the issue brought up here) but my original commitment was in lieu of Lent,…
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Atonement: Framework
The method I’m outlining here, is like that of filling in a jigsaw puzzle. Once again, it comes from the book to the right, and the outline here comes from their chapter covering the same topic. Interestingly, much of what we need to know about the atonement comes from the early chapters of Genesis. From…
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Atonement: Fulfillment
[This post is part of the Atonement series] After looking at some foundational Old Testament passages, it will be helpful now to continue on into the New Testament seeing specifically how Christ’s work on the cross is the culmination of those texts and fulfills them. Only the last passage, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, was specifically prophetic, but…
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Atonement: Foundations
[This post is part of the Atonement series] In this post, I’m simply going to give a survey of the major Old Testament passages that support the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement, mostly following the formulations laid out in Jeffery, Ovey, and Sach’s book, Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution. In a sense, this…
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Atonement: Objections
[This post is part of the Atonement series] Rather than pushing too far forward with the limited/unlimited issue with regards to the atonement, I thought it might be better to put forward, and defend if necessary, the view of penal substitutionary view of the atonement. It seems in reality that the limited/unlimited question is a secondary concern,…
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The DSM V
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] Some of you may be familiar with the DSM-IV, or the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (I’m not sure why the last M and D are dropped in the abbreviation). Recently, a 5th edition has been put together, and the results look rather interesting.…
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Atonement: Calvin
[This post is part of the Atonement series] It should be a rule, and I say this in all seriousness, that you cannot call yourself a Calvinist until you have read the Institutes of the Christian Religion in its entirety (or at least a good bulk of it). I say this of course condemning myself, since I would…
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