tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post5415475518347555928..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: A Circle and a Graph: Evangelical Excuses for Disobedience to GodKent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-22412240954133295472012-07-26T15:07:16.975-07:002012-07-26T15:07:16.975-07:00Found one last thing relevant to this.
http://tea...Found one last thing relevant to this.<br /><br />http://teampyro.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/is-gospel-sufficient-ground-for.html<br /><br />From Phil Johnson, emphasis mine:<br /><br />[i][b]A question I'm often asked is this: Can we have a complete and exhaustive list of doctrines and propositions that are essential?[/b] Frankly, I don't believe that's possible, because truth itself is not a finite commodity, and the minute you think you have nailed down a simple list of all the essentials, the powers of darkness will challenge some underlying point of doctrine you never imagined would be controversial. Then you'll have to add a new item to your list.[/i]<br /><br />I have to sympathize with those asking for his list. If they want to talk tough about separating over the essentials, it's a bit rough if no one knows the list. Even rougher still finding out that it's an ever changing list based upon the times.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14387781402317600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-50461709351007466422012-07-13T19:31:49.257-07:002012-07-13T19:31:49.257-07:00I am the Joshua from Australia. I haven't seen...I am the Joshua from Australia. I haven't seen the other Joshua (I think his last name is Alan? Allen?) around since he took Thomas to task for his criticism of natural medicine a few months back. <br /><br />I'll start posting with my gmail account to make me easier to distinguish. <br /><br />God bless,<br /><br />JoshuaJoshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14387781402317600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-17052065566462866522012-07-13T18:00:32.741-07:002012-07-13T18:00:32.741-07:00Joshua,
are you the Joshua from Australia? Wisco...Joshua,<br /><br />are you the Joshua from Australia? Wisconsin?Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-66462980519864559852012-07-13T15:45:02.137-07:002012-07-13T15:45:02.137-07:00Read this this morning in Spurgeon's Morning a...Read this this morning in Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotional, and thought it remarkably appropriate to this topic:<br /><br />"If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it."—Exodus 20:25.<br /><br />GOD'S altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all. All alterations and amendments of the Lord's own Word are defilements and pollutions....<br /><br />Many professors may take warning from this morning's text as to the doctrines which they believe. There is among Christians far too much inclination to square and reconcile the truths of revelation; this is a form of irreverence and unbelief, let us strive against it, and receive truth as we find it; rejoicing that the doctrines of the Word are unhewn stones, and so are all the more fit to build an altar for the Lord.Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-88725508783295040242012-07-12T14:09:12.410-07:002012-07-12T14:09:12.410-07:00Of course you are dealing with Barthian inspiratio...Of course you are dealing with Barthian inspiration. Most Neo-evangelicals believe it without even knowing that it comes from Barth or even that it is inconsistent with the historical position on inspiration.Lance Ketchumhttp://www.disciplemakerministries.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-29532965914243086522012-07-11T15:29:48.293-07:002012-07-11T15:29:48.293-07:00Amen and thank you for this post.
This statement ...Amen and thank you for this post.<br /><br />This statement nails the core of where this thinking goes:<br /><br />"The circle is an excuse for missing anything outside the center. Those who separate over the peripherals are the enemy of the core. Suddenly disobedient people are not only excused, but they are of superior status."<br /><br />I was thinking of taking those 5 circle and dot graphs on Patton's website, correcting the fundamentalist one, then putting them all on the same page with all the verses on doctrine quoted below and asking the question - which one of these graphs represents what we see in the Bible?<br /><br />Thank you again for taking the time to write this.<br /><br />JoshuaJoshuanoreply@blogger.com