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I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?' She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.' Her parents beamed.

'Wow...what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come ove… Continue

I thought this would be a good complementing article to what Paul Manata was talking about in the videos Mike posted, where he asks the atheist about the problem of "infinite regression" when appealing to beliefs being justified by evidence. This article sums up the trilemma pretty well, I believe. Enjoy!!

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by Duncan Pritchard

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Some Thoughts on Lordship Salvation

By: M. James Sawyer , Th.M., Ph.D. (Bio)

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Originally delivered November 1990 at Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meetings in Kansas City, MO

The debate over Lordship salvation that has come to the fore again in recent years has raised anew theological issues that are as old as the Reformation and simply refuse to die. What is the nature of salvation? How is it appropriated? What is the evidence of the fact tha… Continue

Hey all,

Victor and I sort of got off on this tangent in the Traducianism thread, so I wanted to discuss it separately so it wouldn't get lost in that other thread. I love that we can hash these things out on here.

What would everyone's view be of "original sin", and by that, I mean the imputation of Adam's sin onto man?

I tend to see this plainly taught in Romans 5 (especially when combined with Romans 7...we can't have Paul contradicting himself), but wanted others' input.

Here is my "logi… Continue

It's a hot topic over at CARM right now, so I thought I'd ask here. Basically, does God still "create" every human person (therefore creating fallen humans), or is our fallen-ness somehow "passed on" through..well, I dunno..sperm and egg?

I know that Gordon Clark believed in Traducianism. It was one aspect of his beliefs that I just didn't see from Scripture. What say you all? Does God create people with fallen natures? Does God even "create" anyone anymore?

Jordan