THE REAL REASONS WHY SOME PROTESTANTS DON’T HAVE BISHOPS (ANYMORE)? by Richard A. Shaward (Originally posted in 2009) I am immersing myself into the “Bishops, Elders, and Deacons” controversy for a particular reason. In my mass repository of articles I have read I found this interesting honest admission (?) about what happened to the 1500 […]
Quit Quoting J.B. LIGHTFOOT
Misquoting J.B Lightfoot TO ARGUE AGAINST Bishops, that is. by Richard A. Shaward (originally posted 2009) Okay, . Seriously. I was going to remain silent on this until talking to a certain individual I greatly love in the Lord and respect and am thankful to have known in my early Christian years. (We have never […]
On God Causing Sin
By Richard A. Shaward CALVIN : GOD DOES NOT JUST PERMIT SIN BUT WILLS/CAUSES/ORDAINS SIN “From this it is easy to conclude how foolish and frail is the support of divine justice afforded by the suggestion that evils come to be not by [God’s] will, but merely by his permission. Of course, so far as […]
Sovereignty in the Death of Jesus
by Roger Olsen [Man, does this guy think like me] One critic here (so far) has argued against my maxim that “God is in charge but not in control” by pointing to Acts 2:23 which says that Jesus was “delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.” (RSV) The critic argues that […]