Archive for August 2013
The Legitimacy of Religiously Based Arguments in the Public Square: The Moral Argument
Elsewhere, I develop this more fully as well as lay out historical, constitutional, and intellectual arguments for an alternative to the “separation” model for governing the relationship of church and state, which I call The Proportional Accommodation and Appreciation Model.[1] This article focus is only the moral argument. The problem is that secularists often, successfully, seek to…
Read MoreBelong to a Local Church—Only If You SO Desire!
Church membership has been variously determined at different times and places in the history of the church. At first, belonging to a local church was by free choice, but as the church and state became more integrated, church membership was often determined by one’s geographical location. The Reformation accomplished many things, but it did not…
Read MoreBelow Is a Blogger’s Response to an Article I Wrote for SBC Today
I begin by quoting the statement he used from my article and then note his assessment. My response follows. You quoted me, “the gospel, according to Calvinism, is that God ‘loves to save some sinners and equally loves to damn most sinners to eternal torment.” You said that my statement was “patently false” and that…
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