Kevin DeYoung: The God Who Is Not Like Us

Ok. Go listen to this lecture, then take a nap, and then listen to it again. As I recently wrote, the doctrine of divine simplicity and its correlated doctrines of immutability and impassibility have to become a Shibboleth for our age. DeYoung absolutely nails it in this lecture at T4G 2018.

O Death, Where is your Victory?

There are some questions that, when you first come across them, seem to put up devastating roadblocks against the Christian faith. I was asked one such question recently. I could tell that for this person, something that they had never before given a second thought was now front and center in their concerns. They asked me,… Continue reading O Death, Where is your Victory?

William Lane Craig – Theopaschitism (6)

As we have seen previously, William Lane Craig holds to a view which he calls Neo-Apollinarianism. Although he claims that this is only a proposal, and thus claims a sort of theological immunity regarding its heretical implications, I don’t believe we should let him off the hook quite so easily. To briefly review, Neo-Apollinarianism is a slight… Continue reading William Lane Craig – Theopaschitism (6)

Divine Simplicity: A Shibboleth for Our Age

There are some sounds in any language that some non-native speakers struggle with. In fact, more often than not… they never quite get it. Often times, the language-learner simply substitutes a similar sound. A classic, albeit stereotypical, example of this phenomena is found in the many caricatures of native speakers of Asian languages substituting /l/… Continue reading Divine Simplicity: A Shibboleth for Our Age