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Comment of the Day
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Tony Jones
Brian does the unthinkable and defends Pelagius (against Augustine)! Watch out, Brian, the NeoReformed stormtroopers went after Scot McKnight last week, and they’ll probably come after you here! Pelagius brought up good points that are often ignored. First, he argued that humanity has salvation through God’s “original grace.” This prevenient grace is God’s free gift…
Ash Wednesday: Atonement Round-Up
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Tony Jones
As we enter the season of Lent, here are some resources to get you thinking about alternatives to the penal substitutionary theory (yes, friends, it’s a theory!) of the atonement. At Zoecarnate, Mike Morrell proposes that we look beyond liberal and conservative ideas of the atonement, then he proposes a revisioning of the entire issue.…
What to Give Up for Lent
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Tony Jones
Hate.
Comment of the Day
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Tony Jones
We’ve got a nice thread going on free will and determinism around these parts. Albert the Abstainer chimes in: Real free will: An ability to choose alternatives such that the possibility of an alternative action is real and not the product of a particular history of preceding events. Free will: A state wherein a person…
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