Howdy! I'm new. Though I think I might have posted on this forum a long time ago, before the site redesign.
I'm not an open theist, though I have friends connected with Denver Bible Church. I find mid-Acts dispensationalism to be absurd (no legitimate Pauline/Petrine dichotomy). I believe that ethnic Israel will predominately turn to Christ before/during the end times. I haven't studied enough to judge whether the Church is the inheritor of all the promises of Israel. I don't know of any good reason to believe in a pre-trib Rapture. I'm mostly agnostic on millenialism--but I think that the coming of the Kingdom was always intended to be viewed in an already-not-yet way. I'm a 5-point Calvinist...depending. (Some self-labeled Calvinists believe vile things--and some non-Calvinists are rejecting a Calvinism that I reject, too. As far as I understand the historic definitions of the 5 points, I agree. Though I would want to know how you define them before I sign off on them. Limited Atonement/Particular Redemption has to be articulated particularly carefully. And I'm not sure if 1 Tim. 2:4 means that God wants-but-does-not-bring-about the salvation of all individuals, or means something like "all kinds of people".) I'm roughly in the Reformed charismatic arena. (Though I'm open-but-cautious on much of charismatic practice.) The gift of tongues includes private-prayer-languages, though I suspect many (most?) people are faking it. I'm still figuring out if NT prophecy includes the fallible reporting of infallible revelation. The baptism of the Spirit occurs at conversion, but the Spirit might "fall on"/fill us with greater intensity at various times in our life, or we may "walk with" him more or less closely. The Emerging Church is too diverse to broadbrush, but it includes some bad responses to real problems...and maybe some good responses. I used to post on TheologyWeb a lot, in the creation/evolution forums. I'm a young-earther by exegesis, but various lines of physical evidence give me headaches--and I'm not quite sure of the exegesis. I don't see any good theological/biblical reason for an old-earther not to become a theistic evolutionist. I like C. Michael Patton, Greg Koukl, Michael Horton, James R. White, the Pyromaniacs (Frank is my favorite), the Internet Monk (though I find him annoying half the time), D. A. Carson, Sam Storms, C. J. Mahaney, Thabiti Anyabwile, Alistair Begg, Roger Olson, Carl Trueman, Wayne Grudem, Mark Driscoll, Matt Chandler, J. Ligon Duncan, Mark Dever, and more. (Hmm... Two non-Calvinists in that list. Interesting.) I haven't listened much to Bob Enyart, but one of my best friends loves him.
I voted for Chuck Baldwin.
I have a blog, on which I haven't posted much in the last month or so: Through A Glass, Dimly
I'm not an open theist, though I have friends connected with Denver Bible Church. I find mid-Acts dispensationalism to be absurd (no legitimate Pauline/Petrine dichotomy). I believe that ethnic Israel will predominately turn to Christ before/during the end times. I haven't studied enough to judge whether the Church is the inheritor of all the promises of Israel. I don't know of any good reason to believe in a pre-trib Rapture. I'm mostly agnostic on millenialism--but I think that the coming of the Kingdom was always intended to be viewed in an already-not-yet way. I'm a 5-point Calvinist...depending. (Some self-labeled Calvinists believe vile things--and some non-Calvinists are rejecting a Calvinism that I reject, too. As far as I understand the historic definitions of the 5 points, I agree. Though I would want to know how you define them before I sign off on them. Limited Atonement/Particular Redemption has to be articulated particularly carefully. And I'm not sure if 1 Tim. 2:4 means that God wants-but-does-not-bring-about the salvation of all individuals, or means something like "all kinds of people".) I'm roughly in the Reformed charismatic arena. (Though I'm open-but-cautious on much of charismatic practice.) The gift of tongues includes private-prayer-languages, though I suspect many (most?) people are faking it. I'm still figuring out if NT prophecy includes the fallible reporting of infallible revelation. The baptism of the Spirit occurs at conversion, but the Spirit might "fall on"/fill us with greater intensity at various times in our life, or we may "walk with" him more or less closely. The Emerging Church is too diverse to broadbrush, but it includes some bad responses to real problems...and maybe some good responses. I used to post on TheologyWeb a lot, in the creation/evolution forums. I'm a young-earther by exegesis, but various lines of physical evidence give me headaches--and I'm not quite sure of the exegesis. I don't see any good theological/biblical reason for an old-earther not to become a theistic evolutionist. I like C. Michael Patton, Greg Koukl, Michael Horton, James R. White, the Pyromaniacs (Frank is my favorite), the Internet Monk (though I find him annoying half the time), D. A. Carson, Sam Storms, C. J. Mahaney, Thabiti Anyabwile, Alistair Begg, Roger Olson, Carl Trueman, Wayne Grudem, Mark Driscoll, Matt Chandler, J. Ligon Duncan, Mark Dever, and more. (Hmm... Two non-Calvinists in that list. Interesting.) I haven't listened much to Bob Enyart, but one of my best friends loves him.
I voted for Chuck Baldwin.
I have a blog, on which I haven't posted much in the last month or so: Through A Glass, Dimly
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