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2024-11-11T09:14:50-05:00

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Mystery, Paradox, Contradiction in Theology 2

Last updated on: November 11, 2024 at 9:14 am By Roger E. Olson

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A Mysterious Topic: “Mystery,” “Paradox,” and “Contradiction” in Theology (Part 2) If you have not read Part 1 (posted November 7), please do so first. This may not make sense otherwise. One way in which some well-meaning but misguided persons have attempted to resolve the seemingly intractable differences between divine determinism, including evil as part of God’s plan rendered certain by God, and creaturely free will as power of contrary choice, including evil as not part of God’s plan and... Read more

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2024-11-11T09:16:40-05:00

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Mystery, Paradox, Contradiction: Part 1

Last updated on: November 11, 2024 at 9:16 am By Roger E. Olson

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A Mysterious Topic: “Mystery,” “Paradox,” and “Contradiction” in Theology (Part 1) The average Christian, I suspect, thinks “mystery” is something beyond all comprehension; it’s what you’re supposed to believe but cannot be explained or even expressed except in ways that require sacrifice of the intellect. The classical examples most people would give are the Trinity and the deity and humanity of Jesus Christ (what theologians call the “hypostatic union”). And, when first introduced to the orthodox versions of those doctrines,... Read more

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2024-11-04T15:14:06-05:00

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The Divine Attributes (Cremer) Part 3, 1. Holiness

Last updated on: November 4, 2024 at 3:14 pm By Roger E. Olson

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Reflections on Hermann Cremer, The Christian Doctrine of the Divine Attributes, First Series, Divine Attributes Disclosed in Revelation, 1. The Holiness of God This is an invitation to discuss this chapter if you have read it. If you have not read it, you may ask questions. In about one week I will post reflections on and an invitation to discuss Part 2, The Righteousness of God, pp. 29-43 (the first half). If you read this chapter, you cannot help but... Read more

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2024-11-01T07:44:23-05:00

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What If Satan Offered…?

Last updated on: November 1, 2024 at 7:44 am By Roger E. Olson

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What If Satan Offered…? To all my friends (and others) who are Christians, believe in Satan, and plan to vote for Trump on November 5, 2024. A thought experiment… Imagine Satan, appearing as an angel of light (Lucifer), came to you and you knew it was him. He says to you, “Vote for me and if I am elected I will abolish abortion, gay marriage, and spend my four years in office favoring evangelical Christians. I will lead within constitutional... Read more

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2024-10-29T07:54:11-05:00

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The Scapegoating Phenomenon

Last updated on: October 29, 2024 at 7:54 am By Roger E. Olson

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The Scapegoating Phenomenon Rene Girard, influential French philosopher, is best known for his examination of a universal human tendency called “scapegoating.” According to Girard, every human group must at last occasionally have someone(s) they scapegoat. Scapegoating is based on the Hebrew practice, related in the Pentateuch, of symbolically placing the people’s sins on an animal (usually but not always a goat) and sending it out of the people’s living space and into a wilderness to die alone. According to Girard,... Read more

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2024-10-27T10:15:09-05:00

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The Christian Doctrine of the Divine Attributes 2

Last updated on: October 27, 2024 at 10:15 am By Roger E. Olson

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The Christian Doctrine of the Divine Attributes 2 For those of you reading this book with me, I will next, in about a week, take up Chapter 3 “First Series: Divine Attributes Disclosed in Revelation,” Part 1 “The Holiness of God.” (Part 2 is very long, so I want to take it up by itself after Part 1.) I am again astounded at how much Cremer’s view of God parallels, foreshadows, Karl Barth’s and Emil Brunner’s. I simply have to... Read more

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2024-10-24T16:13:43-05:00

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What Is a “Form of Life?” Can an Outsider Understand?

Last updated on: October 24, 2024 at 4:13 pm By Roger E. Olson

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What Is a “Form of Life?” Can an Outsider Understand One? Some years ago two of my colleagues came to me asking if I could explain what “pleading the blood of Jesus” meant. I was stumped. I knew very well what it means to Pentecostal (and perhaps other) Christians because I grew up with it. I knew and explained when and why it was done, why and when my parents, for example, “pled the blood of Jesus.” But I had... Read more

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2024-10-23T11:45:14-05:00

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Trump on Hitler

Last updated on: October 23, 2024 at 11:45 am By Roger E. Olson

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Trump on Hitler According to John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House Chief of Staff, Trump said Hitler “did some good things” and he would like to have generals like Hitler had. Is it every a good thing to say good things about Hitler? Simply, no. Whatever good Hitler did was so overwhelmed by the evils he did that we should never praise Hitler, even for patting a child soldier on the cheek just before sending him out to fight... Read more

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2024-10-20T17:09:21-05:00

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The Christian Doctrine of the Divine Attributes Part 1

Last updated on: October 20, 2024 at 5:09 pm By Roger E. Olson

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The Christian Doctrine of the Divine Attributes Part 1 Here I begin a discussion, with others, of the book The Christian Doctrine of the Divine Attributes by German theologian Hermann Cremer. I announced this book discussion two weeks ago. If you have read Chapter I “The Concept of the Divine Attributes,” you are welcome to comment. If not, you are welcome to ask a question. I read not only Chapter I but also the Introduction and Preface. I found the... Read more

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2024-10-16T06:52:20-05:00

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I Told You So…

Last updated on: October 16, 2024 at 6:52 am By Roger E. Olson

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I Told You So… On Sunday, October 13, presidential candidate Donald Trump told an interviewer on Fox News that he would possibly favor using the US Military, including the National Guard (who he would have control over as president), against the “enemy within,” “sick people, radical left lunatics.” Anyone who has been paying any attention knows who he means. I have warned people here many times that IF Trump wins the presidency again we may enter into an era of... Read more

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