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imprecatory psalm

Cursing the Killer: On Praying the Imprecatory Psalms

June 19, 2016 by Randal

Over the years I’ve preached my sermon on the imprecatory psalms on several occasions. Not surprisingly, when you return to an issue on multiple occasions, your position is liable to develop in particular ways. And so it is here. Initially my assessment followed that of C.S. Lewis: the imprecatory psalms represent a wicked desire for […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, curse, evil, forgiveness, God, imprecatory psalm, problem of evil, sermon

Psalm 137 for Family Devotions

November 20, 2012 by Randal

Psalm 137 used to be a biblical text that I avoided with care. What do you do with a bloke who thinks that grabbing babies by the ankles and swinging them like a sack of flour into jagged rocks is an afternoon well spent? However, tonight we made Psalm 137 the text for our family devotions. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, hermeneutics, imprecatory psalm, theodicy

God loves you … but he hates that guy over there

December 22, 2011 by Randal

God’s love shines through a prism I’m so confused by Calvinism Bill Mallonee, “It’s not bothering me”   Many people have found themselves confused by Calvinism. This article is concerned with exploring some of the confusion, more correctly the cognitive dissonance, introduced by this theology. Let’s begin with the first of Bill Bright’s four spiritual laws: […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: arminianism, Calvinism, election, imprecatory psalm, omnibenevolence, providence, theology

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