Here’s a series of MP3’s from the last month of Sunday School. The first three audio lectures deal with Old Earth vs. Young Earth interpretations of the Genesis creation account (a topic raised from Westminster Confession, chapter 4). Today’s class (05/04/14) dealt with the Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter 5 and God’s providence and control…
Today we continued our study of the Westminster Confession of Faith chapter 3, where we continued to speak to the issue of God’s foreordination of all that comes to pass. This issue seems to create a great deal of tension in the Christian community, which is a shame because in the Scriptures, the doctrine of…
In today’s Sunday School we spoke to the issue of God’s Necessary and Free Knowledge. Other topics were addressed as well, including issues regarding possibility and conceivability and God’s creation via His self contained nature. Here’s the MP’3 – Sunday School 3_17_13
This week in Sunday School, we picked up where we left off in speaking about God’s foreknowledge and human, moral responsibility. This week, we shifted from the simple foreknowledge view to God’s foreordination of all events, which is why He knows the future and human history of what will actually take place. This was a…
Today’s Sunday School lesson dealt with God’s exhaustive foreknowledge and man’s moral responsibility. What I attempted to demonstrate today was multi-fold. First, if God knows a future event, and if He knows it perfectly, than it is a necessary truth that the event will come to pass. Meaning, the event’s certainty is tied to the perfect nature…
In preparing my sermon on 1 Peter 1, I have noticed the following theological gems that I thought would be helpful (in summation form). What a blessing of a chapter and may my God and yours apply these truths more and more to our hearts everyday. 1 Peter Chapter 1 Theological Points 1) Election and…
Recently, I have been studying the topic of Molinism, which some view as an alternative to the classical Reformed understanding of “Compatibilism.” While studying this topic, I contacted a philosopher that has debated this issue in favor of the Molinist view-point and we agreed that the following is not valid: p1: Necessarily (if God foreknows…
One of the more interesting aspects of theological Arminians is that they wish to hold to two contradictory propositions; God is omniscient and the future is contingent. It is often stated that “all men can be saved and come to faith in Jesus Christ.” Immediately following a statement such as this is typically an appeal…
As noted in the previous post, if God perfectly foreknows that “X” will “S,” then, the outcome of “S” in certain in advance, because God is omniscient and knows nothing falsely. However, this does not mean that “S” will come about necessarily. John Calvin touched on this subject in his famed work, “The Institutes of…
There is much to say about the foreknowledge of God and the will of the creature. This is a topic that has been and will be debated for a great while. One of the areas where conflict arises is in the area of necessity. Do the foreordained decrees of the Lord come about necessarily? This…
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