tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24269277.post114281792735434189..comments2023-10-22T07:49:11.345-04:00Comments on An Old Kind of Christian: Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925106907578929450noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24269277.post-1143483515184644452006-03-27T13:18:00.000-05:002006-03-27T13:18:00.000-05:00Rick (Canyon Creek),That is interesting that you s...Rick (Canyon Creek),<BR/><BR/>That is interesting that you say that I sound like "a new kind of Christian," the kind that Brian McLaren is exhorting us to become. I actually started the blog to counter some of the thinking that I see from Brian McLaren and some of the emerging Church, namely: a denial of the substitutionary atonement of Christ (seen as a form of divine child abuse), a denial of the inerrancy of Scripture, an unclear stance on hell (in many cases of the emerging church, an outright belief in universalism), and a misappropriation of postmodernism. (I will flesh this out later in a blog, citing sources, etc.) For some background in what I hope to accomplish with this blog please see "The Cambridge Declaration" published by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (http://www.alliancenet.org/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID560218|CIID1411364,00.html). Have a great day and may God richly bless you,<BR/><BR/>NickNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03925106907578929450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24269277.post-1143482717371273632006-03-27T13:05:00.000-05:002006-03-27T13:05:00.000-05:00Jeff,An agreement with Erasmus' call to return to ...Jeff,<BR/><BR/>An agreement with Erasmus' call to return to the Scriptures does not mean that I endorse all he wrote. He did write some good things in his "Enchiridion Militis Christiani," The Handbook of the Militant Christian. However, I would obviously be in agreement with Luther concerning the bondage of the will, and the free grace of God. The Reformers recovered an Augustian theology that very much summarizes the Biblical evidence: "the human will does not attain grace by freedom but rather attains freedom by grace" [Augustine, quoted in "Why I am Not an Arminian" by Robert A. Peterson and Michael D. Williams (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004), 27.] <BR/><BR/>NickNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03925106907578929450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24269277.post-1143174620731029112006-03-23T23:30:00.000-05:002006-03-23T23:30:00.000-05:00Nick:Congrats on the blog. With your initial two p...Nick:<BR/>Congrats on the blog. With your initial two posts, you're sounding very much like a new kind of Christian; the kind Brian Maclaren is exhorting us to be in his books. Not the cultural-driven self-focused Christianity that so many of us have preached and practiced for the last couple decades. You go man, blessings!Canyon Creekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02568239316278328374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24269277.post-1142969745799159852006-03-21T14:35:00.000-05:002006-03-21T14:35:00.000-05:00If anyone has some thoughts on why you think this ...If anyone has some thoughts on why you think this perspective is so rare, or any thoughts on God's sovereignty, I would be interested in hearing and discussing.<BR/><BR/>NickNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03925106907578929450noreply@blogger.com