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NASB | Romans 1:18 ¶ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 1:18 ¶ For [God does not overlook sin and] the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who in their wickedness suppress and stifle the truth, |
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Bible Note: While I respect greatly the work that Geisler has done in apologetics, his book Chosen But Free is a complete disaster in my opinion. He redefines the Calvinist position as held today as "extreme Calvinism" and his position as "moderate Calvinism." His moderate Calvinism, in most respects is nothing but Arminian thought under a different name. I was also horrified to see that he takes sentences and short passages of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion and completely rips them out of their larger context in order to convince his reader that Calvin really agrees with *him* and not those cursed "extreme Calvinists" (that's 5-point Calvinists to the rest of the free world). Now that you have read "Chosen But Free," I would heartily recommend the rebuttal written by James R. White, entitled "The Potter's Freedom." He methodically addresses point-by-point the errors in Geisler's thinking, and more thoroughly defends true [extreme] Calvinism. If nothing else, it will be a counterpoint to what is stated in Chosen But Free. I also have noticed the lack of scholarly works written by Arminian authors in the "not a seminary textbook" category (perhaps Tim could point some out). One of the things that first caught my attention regarding Reformed theology was the scholarship. Noll's _The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind_, Marsden's _The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship_, White's _The Forgotten Trinity_, Wells' _No Place for Truth_ and _God in the Wasteland_ were books that pointed out and addressed from a thoroughly Biblical perspective the dearth of thinking Christianity in our age. While none of these books are distinctively Reformed (i.e. I think many Arminians would agree with what is found in these works), I noticed that all of these authors shared a Reformed theological training and perspective. And so began my closer investigation into the theology of the Reformation. --Joe! |