Round the Sphere Again: Using Words

Entirely Trustworthy
Kevin DeYoung quotes J. I Packer on the wisdom of using the word inerrancy to describe scripture.

What it says is that in formulating my theology I shall not consciously deny, disregard, or arbitrarily relativize anything that I find Bible writers teaching, nor cut the knot of any problem of Bible harmony, factual or theological, by assuming that the writers were not consistent with themselves or with each other. Instead, I shall labor to harmonize and integrate all that is taught (without remainder), to take is as from God (however little I may like it), and to seek actively to live by it (whatever change of my present beliefs and behavior-patterns it may require).

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Not Just for Calvinists
Any adequate response to the problem of evil requires that God have two wills. 

You need to have some sense in which God wants to evil to happen if God in any sense knowingly allows it…. But you better not say that God wants it to happen in every sense. God certainly disapproves of the evil, and wouldn’t desire it if it weren’t for whatever issue led God to allow the evil.

Read the whole post at Parableman.

Round the Sphere Again: Real Housewives of the Reformation

Anne Bradstreet

Pilgrim Poet
In 1630, at the young age of 18, Anne Bradstreet crossed the ocean  with her husband to make her home in the New World. At The Upward Call, you’ll find more details about the early years of this young Puritan woman.

Culture Changers
“[A]s the reformers married – the pastoral home became a model for society and gradually changed the culture of Europe.” Recently linked at Monergism.com, Women of the Reformation (pdf) contains short biographical sketches of the wives of seven important reformers.

Round the Sphere Again: Presuppositionalism Once More

Act 17 Twice

1. A concise outline for the transcendental argument for the existence of God, and an example from scripture:

   Paul … in his entire speech in Acts 17, assumes God’s existence from his first sentence and builds upon that transcendental foundation. Whether it’s the fact that God is Creator (v. 24), that he is self-sufficient and all men depend on him (v. 25), that all men come from a common ancestor and God is the Lord of history (v. 26), that God demands repentance (v. 30), and has appointed a final day of judgment (v. 31), or that Christ was raised from the dead, Paul argues for his worldview from his worldview…. (RealApologetics Blog)

2. A discussion of “the problem of the criterion.”

   To avoid a subjectivist guessing game and/or utter skepticism, we must appeal to an ultimate locus of authority that is comprehensive in knowledge. This is what Christians call the Triune God, and I proclaim to you in Pauline fashion (Acts 17:23) that He is the only actual Criterion that humans can appeal to in order to justify knowledge. (Triablogue)