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According to creationism, sure. Oh, wait, that's according to evolution, too. My wife's cat gave birth to a litter of ... baby cats.

This is not a thing. The idea that these palm trees track sunlight by moving through the forest—by growing new roots toward the light and letting the old roots die off—"is a myth that tourist guides find amusing to tell visitors to the rainforest," according to biologist Gerardo Avalos, who...

Without a historical Adam and Eve, I don't think one can maintain a Reformed covenant theology. This will not bother those who don't have such a view in the first place.

I am only recently familiar with this view, having just purchased the book Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) by Edwin van Driel, in which he makes that same argument. He does not seem to have any sympathy for the felix culpa...

Can you remember any other details? Like, even when it came out? Absolutely anything will help.

That might work in the context of doing life together over the long-term. It does not work, however, in the context of a godless argument being presented, either by an atheist right there in the moment or by speakers or writers like Richard Dawkins whom you are unlikely to meet—especially when...

It may prove helpful in providing an alternative after destroying the original argument but, in the case you mention, I would say that no contrast is necessary because such a statement is so intellectually bankrupt as to be incredibly stupid. The technical and more sophisticated analysis is that...

Let me state first of all that, as a creationist, I believe that God created everything. So, I am not disagreeing with that, at all. This is the part I'm disagreeing with because it is not entirely accurate. Your statement that matter cannot be created is trading on an ambiguity with the...

Speaking for myself, I don't think that election is predestination (i.e., the same thing). Rather, as I understand Romans 8:29-30, predestination follows from election, as one link in a chain follows another: "Those whom he foreknew he also predestined" (v. 29)—in the same way that "called"...

This plays on a category error, pitting science against the Bible. The former is human interpretation, the latter is divine revelation—two categorically different things. The proper contrast would be either science and theology (both human interpretations), or nature and scripture (both divine...

I think that I sort of defaulted into the infralapsarian view when I came around to Reformed theology, on account of the confessional standards that I had been studying which were, therefore, shaping my views (e.g., Canons of Dort). Evidently, all major Reformed confessions are either implicitly...

For me, it's about the coherence, integrity, and consistency of my Reformed systematic theology and biblical world-view. For example, Article 2 of the Belgic Confession of Faith affirms that one of the ways by which we know God is "the creation, preservation, and government of the universe...

The supralapsarian believes that the divine decree of election and reprobation logically preceded the decree of the fall—which means that, when God decreed to elect some and not others, they were contemplated as not yet fallen. It seems to me that their reprobation in this case is primarily an...

Not too controversial, I hope, for Jesus did say, "Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven" (Matt 10:32-33).

Bing Chat was barely correct, but its answer did contain some fairly egregious errors. For example, it said that when we accept Christ we are "saved from our past sins and their penalty." His atoning sacrifice saves us from all our sin—past, present, and future (i.e., not just past). I also...

Bing Chat uses Prometheus, a proprietary technology that integrates GPT-4 in a suite of features that provide a bridge between Bing Search and AI chat. In my opinion, as someone who has been using Bing Chat (Microsoft) and ChatGPT Plus (OpenAI) extensively, the former definitely provides an...

Does belief in "unconditional election" entail by necessity a belief in "unconditional reprobation"? Not necessarily. For example, a belief in unconditional election does not commit an infralapsarian to a belief in unconditional reprobation. On an infralapsarian view of the ordo salutis, the...

Unfortunately, you did not provide any reason for disagreeing. This indefensible assertion is trying hard to pretend that no Christians accept evolution (but most of us do). The origin of life and the origin of species are two distinct and separate things. Perhaps I can make the point a...

Grace is also God granting the sinner that very repentance itself and knowledge of the truth (e.g., 2 Tim 2:25). More specifically, grace is the "unmerited favor" of God toward sinners who don't and can't deserve such generous divine gifts as these. (A related term is mercy, which refers to...

It shows that our obedience is by the grace and power of God, as can be seen by simply reading the passage. "Where does obedience fit it to your [Calvinist] theology?" someone asked, and this passage serves as a clear and succinct illustration which answers that, which is why I chimed in with...