IS EVERY RULER ELECTED BY GOD TO THE THRONE HE OCCUPIES? [Romans 13:1-4] Let every soul be subject to authorities which govern. For there is no authority except from God; and the existing authorities have been appointed by God. 2 So that the one who sets himself against the authority has withstood the ordinance of […]
Calvinism and Deuteronomy 29:29
BY BEN HENSHAW “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.” (Deuteronomy 29:29) Calvinists often appeal to Deut. 29:29 when caught in a theological dilemma. Ask a Calvinist how God […]
Bede on Faith
Bede (c. 672 – May 25, 735) was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth (today part of Sunderland), and of its daughter monastery, Saint Paul’s, in modern Jarrow. He is well known as an author and scholar, whose best-known work is Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the […]
The Freedom of the Will
100-165 AD, Justin Martyr: “God, wishing men and angels to follow his will, resolved to create them free to do righteousness. But if the word of God foretells that some angels and men shall certainly be punished, it did so because it foreknew that they would be unchangeably (wicked), but not because God created them […]