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Are all sins the same? | Tom Hicks
“Is it true that all people are equally sinful? If someone has sinful anger in his heart, but never acts on it, is that person really the same as someone who has sinful anger in his heart and then murders his whole family?”
Rom 13:3–4 and the Prescription of Government Roles | Timothy Decker
Paul was giving apostolic teaching as to the role, purpose, and function the civil government. He was prescribing what the civil government ought to do in human society.
Saying “amen” in public worship | Sam Waldron
True worship in the church should be an expression of corporate unity.
A Panting Soul | Tom J. Nettles
In spite of these appearances, however, Job is convinced that evil persons eventually will be cut off (24, 25), even as he knows that he eventually will be vindicated (23:10). More convinced than ever is Job that his Redeemer lives.
Were Adam and Eve Saved? | Ben Carlson
Adam and Eve heard from the mouth of God the first promise of the gospel in Genesis 3:15. But did they believe in it? Did they receive and rest their souls in the promise that the Redeemer would be sent into the world to destroy the devil and reverse the curse and bring in everlasting blessedness?
It is Your Fault | Tom J. Nettles
“…during this life, we do not see sin and judgment in a quid pro quo arrangement. Job’s experience, and the inspired narrative of it, constitutes a large portion of the special revelation as to how we are to regard suffering among the people of God.”
Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Natural Theology’s Use | John Sweat
Turretin lists five general uses or ends of natural theology.
Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Natural and Supernatural Theology | John Sweat
Turretin situates natural theology as subordinate to supernatural theology for the latter is insufficient for a true knowledge of God or salvation.
Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Natural Theology’s Definition | John Sweat
Turretin does not give a definition of natural theology other than describing what it consists of, “The natural, occupied with that which may be known of God (to gnōston tou Theou), is both innate (from the common notions implanted in each one) and acquired (which creatures gain discursively).”