HOMOSEXUAL DIFFERENCES UNBRIDGEABLE

Culture, Ethics June 27, 2017 Leave a comment

PMT 2017-051 by Denny Burk (The Aquila Report)

David Gushee has a column at Religion News Service about Jonathan Merritt, Jen Hatmaker, and LGBT “inclusion” within the church. Gushee says that he exited evangelicalism 30 months ago, and since then he has concluded this:

I now believe that incommensurable differences in understanding the very meaning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the interpretation of the Bible, and the sources and methods of moral discernment, separate many of us from our former brethren – and that it is best to name these differences clearly and without acrimony, on the way out the door. Continue reading →

POSTMILLENNIALISM AND APOLOGETICS (5b)

apologetics, Creation, Culture June 23, 2017 Leave a comment

PMT 2017-050 by Mike Warren (Christian Civilization Blog)

Point 5 (continued):
Postmillennialism was an important influence in the Scientific Revolution.

Postmillennialism supports the argument for the Christian basis for science since postmillennialism was an important influence in the Scientific Revolution.

The founder of British empiricism and experimentation, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), concluded his famous book on experimental method, Novum Organum, by saying: Continue reading →

POSTMILLENNIALISM AND APOLOGETICS (5a)

apologetics, Culture, Science June 20, 2017 Leave a comment

PMT 2017-049 by Mike Warren (Christian Civilization Blog)

Point 5:
Postmillennialism was an important influence in the Scientific Revolution.

Postmillennialism supports the argument for the Christian basis for science since postmillennialism was an important influence in the Scientific Revolution.

The influence of the postmillennial eschatology of the Puritan Revolution in England (1626-1660) on the Scientific Revolution requires some discussion of related issues of biblical hermeneutics and belief in a literal Adam and Eve. Continue reading →

POSTMILLENNIALISM AND APOLOGETICS (4)

AD 70, apologetics, Preterism June 16, 2017 Leave a comment

PMT 2017-048 By Mike Warren (Christian Civilization Blog)

Point 4:
Postmillennialism is the biblical anecdote to failed predictions of Christ’s Second Coming.

Postmillennialism, with a preterist view of the Great Tribulation, refutes the numerous failed predictions, which have undermined the credibility of the modern evangelical church, that Jesus is coming soon to rapture Christians out of the world. Continue reading →

POSTMILLENNIALISM AND APOLOGETICS (3)

AD 70, apologetics June 13, 2017 1 Comment

PMT 2017-047 by Mike Warren (Christian Civilization Blog)

Point 3:
Postmillennialism refutes the skeptics’ claim that Jesus broke His promise to return.

Postmillennialism, with a preterist view of the Great Tribulation, refutes the claim of skeptics that Jesus was a false prophet because He did not return to earth within a generation as He predicted and as His apostles expected. Continue reading →

POSTMILLENNIALISM AND APOLOGETICS (2)

AD 70, apologetics June 9, 2017 Comments: 2

Point 2:
Postmillennialism validates the resurrection and the truth of Jesus’ message.

Postmillennialism, with a preterist view of the Great Tribulation, points to empirical evidence still visible in our own day that a major prophecy by Jesus came true, which validates Jesus as a true prophet from God (Deut. 18:21-22), and that validates Jesus’ message, such as His statements about being God and about His resurrection.[1] (“Preterist” means “past” and means here that the Great Tribulation occurred in the past, namely the first century A.D.) Continue reading →

POSTMILLENNIALISM AND APOLOGETICS (1)

apologetics June 6, 2017 Leave a comment

PMT 2017-045 by Mike Warren (Christian Civilization Blog)

I propose five points where postmillennial eschatology shapes and supports Christian apologetics:

1. Postmillennialism means that we eventually persuade the world with our arguments.
2. Postmillennialism validates the resurrection and the truth of Jesus’ message.
3. Postmillennialism refutes the skeptics’ claim that Jesus broke His promise to return.
4. Postmillennialism is the biblical anecdote to failed predictions of Christ’s Second Coming.
5. Postmillennialism was an important influence in the Scientific Revolution. Continue reading →