Historical discussion has made “free will” a systematically ambiguous phrase. It is used to mean: 1. Free agency, that is, ability to make and execute one’s own decisions, thus incurring accountability for what one does. All Western philosophies and theologies assert...
Calvinism While Calvinism bears the name of John Calvin as the system of theology he set forth during the Reformation, he was by no means the inventor of it, for its roots go back to the Bible and to the interpretations of such early church theologians as Chrysostom...
Calvin, John (1509–1564) One of the principal leaders of the Protestant Reformation. John Calvin is chiefly remembered as a biblical scholar and a systematic theologian. Calvin was born on July 10, 1509, in the cathedral town of Noyon, where his father was an...
Get “Religious Speak” out of your vocabulary! We’ve all heard it said, “God said he would meet your needs, not your wants.” This phrase is a prime example of “religious speak” and has nothing to do with the truth of...
Overall Strategy Failure to have an effective strategy can result in an encounter between a Christian and a Mormon that goes like this. The Christian shows the Mormon a Bible verse that contradicts lds teaching. The Mormon then responds with another verse that he...
