Cooper MacBride
@CooperGMacBride
Husband and dad. CS Lewis appreciator. Engineer. First principles work great for creating, analogies work better for explaining.
Controversial opinion: Christian women shouldn’t wear bikinis with the intention of inciting lust in those who see them. Also, Christian men shouldn’t lust after women because they are wearing bikinis. Legalism misses the whole point.
Christian women shouldn't wear bikinis
Cans of dog food should be sold in packs of 7 or 14, not 12.
FYI: Calvinists deploy “sovereignty” as a motte-and-bailey rhetorical strategy. Motte: Ultimate divine authority Bailey: “All events are governed by God’s secret plan.” (Institutes 1.16.2) The motte is Scriptural and the analogy fits. The bailey… not so much.
"I don't think we're ever going to see a healthy evangelical church until the evangelical church is reformed—solidly reformed—where it takes seriously biblical Christianity and its concept of a sovereign God." R.C. Sproul
Take care that your patient is very particular about the liturgical rules. That’s the kind of devotion that we want. Your Affectionate Uncle, Screwtape
The orans posture is reserved only for priests. Praying this way as the laity is a violation of the liturgical rule.
Is this the death-knell for Abiogenesis? A new paper was just published that proves that time is indeed the enemy of origin of life, showing how amino acids (which make up proteins) and RNA molecules degrade faster than they can be constructed in a natural environment. The…
Did God regenerate Adam immediately before or after He called out “Where are you?” Did He regenerate Eve at the same moment or did He wait until He asked her “What is this you have done?”
“There are progressions in which the last step is sui generis—incommensurable with the others—and in which to go the whole way is to undo all the labour of your previous journey.” The deprecation of virtue in Man is just such a progression. The last step, instead of glorifying…
Do Calvinists truly not know about Calvin’s own chain of reasoning? Or do they just pretend not to know? Total inability requires election to enable faith in God, that election is unconditional necessarily, it is therefore determined before creation, and thus all things (good…
More evidence that he is superfluous and therefore not necessary.
Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart will appear on ‘THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT’ tonight to show solidarity after Colbert’s show was cancelled. (Source: @latenightercom)
Calvinists seem to think that Total Depravity is a pious humility. “We are so evil, we cannot even want God’s love until He implants it in us.” But this zealous humility by logical necessity puts our evil down on God’s side of the ledger.