tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13873773.post2458458161584635256..comments2023-09-17T08:45:50.720-04:00Comments on Stuff Out Loud: Scholarship, Faith, and the BARLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04886866662463467215noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13873773.post-43803084427279710552007-09-13T11:08:00.000-04:002007-09-13T11:08:00.000-04:00Yeah, that was cryptic...Well, I am decidedly not ...Yeah, that was cryptic...<BR/><BR/>Well, I am decidedly not a Calvinist and I can't resist making some noise about it, even if it is cryptic.<BR/><BR/>I really don't want to throw you off the main point of this post, so I think I should leave it alone.<BR/><BR/>May we all faithfully preach salvation through faith alone, and may those who hear respond with faith, however we think it might be generated.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Don Johnson<BR/>Jer 33.3Don Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03332212749734904541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13873773.post-74448945812888156732007-09-12T17:44:00.000-04:002007-09-12T17:44:00.000-04:00Hey Don,Thanks for reading. Your first comment abo...Hey Don,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reading. Your first comment about "If I did not speak, what then?" I am confused about. Is that a reference to my last comment about my preaching?<BR/><BR/>If so, my point is that man's deadness in sins renders it impossible for me to convince them of salvation, and therefore, preaching is useless unless the Spirit of God is unilaterally and sovereignly enabling and bringing people to come to faith in him.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886866662463467215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13873773.post-11361366261774625402007-09-12T17:02:00.000-04:002007-09-12T17:02:00.000-04:00But if you didn't speak, what then?Anyway, not rea...But if you didn't speak, what then?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, not really wanting to argue that point with you.<BR/><BR/>I subscribe to BAR and was grieved in spirit when that article came out. What a sad state of affairs for these men.<BR/><BR/>The term 'fundamentalist' for Dever's background, if I recall correctly, would not be what you and I understand by the term. I think it is Church of Christ... or something like that.<BR/><BR/>I also think that you will find that a lot of these intellectual excuses have something of the lust of the flesh or some other lust at the heart of the unbelief.<BR/><BR/>I did a little reading on some of these men elsewhere, just to find out where they were coming from. There is more to the story than they tell you in the article.<BR/><BR/>Suffice to say that the darkness in which these and all other lost men immerse themselves (and are immersed by nature) ought to motivate us to speak and speak again.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Don Johnson<BR/>Jer 33.3Don Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03332212749734904541noreply@blogger.com