Yesterday I posted my review of the new Zondervan book Four Views on The Historical Adam. One of the book’s contributors, Denis Lamoureux, offered a response. Despite the fact that I stated Lamoureux presented the strongest case, he didn’t seem very happy with the review and listed several points that he thought I got wrong. […]
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God was in Christ reconciling the world … but how exactly?
Note: this article was originally published at The Christian Post in April, 2010. According to Paul, God was in Christ “katallass” or “reconciling” the world to himself (2 Cor. 5:19). But what exactly is that supposed to mean? The Greek word refers to an exchange of equivalent values, a settling of accounts, with the result […]
Invisible Gardener, 100 percent natural: Responses to Ray and Adam
Due to the ongoing work here at the blog, I am presently unable to comment under my own name. (It’s a long story.) So instead I’m going to offer a response here to comments by Ray Ingles and Adam Hazzard in response to my article “See no Supernaturalism…” Consciousness and Naturalism Ray starts off by observing: […]
Can we rationally believe in an atonement we don’t understand?
Having surveyed Ken Pulliam’s discussion of the PST, I have now been asked by Robert: “How do the other theories fare? I’m guessing they have problems too, since men like Luther and Calvin rejected them in favor of PST.” First off, Luther actually is associated with the Christus Victor model rather than PST, though Calvin […]
