Mathew Sims on the T4G Statement, Part 4

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Mathew Sims Gets to Part 5
. . . and I've only posted one . . . still this T4G statement is sure making for some interesting blogging!

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"If any single quote could encapsulate why I am not a Christian, this one, by C. J. Mahaney, has to be it. The sheer, hideous inanity of a god that demands a blood sacrifice from an innocent in repayment for the sins of the guilty is beautifully captured here. It is a theology that captures the worst aspects of an archaic moral worldview, one that promulgates the barbaric idea of blood guilt and blood sacrifice."
The gospel is veiled to the perishing . . . .

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Is Complementarianism Simply Analogous to Racism?
Dave Warnock doesn't waste another opportunity to tell us that it is - I find the connection he makes to be most bizarre, don't you?

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The Life and Death of the Missional Leader
The audio from session one of Mark Driscoll's recent Resurgence Conference is now available.

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"There's no Christian life presented in the Bible apart from being connected to the people of God," he said. "Let's go home and let's live it!"
Josh challenges the NA attendees to go live it out!

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"Rather than being treated as a metaphor, the model of penal substitution has been given an objective reality which does not belong to it."
Herein lies the rub in the atonement debate. Do we hold (as I do) that there IS an objective reality to punishment and wrath and substitution, or do we think it's JUST a metaphor?

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"... the phrase verbally inspired, inerrant, infallible is problematical ..."
Dave Warnock pits the T4G guys against the Evangelical Alliance and other statements of faith in his latest post - this time on Article I.

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