Category Archives: Calvinism

platonist concept of time

Posted on July 18, 2013 by christopher fisher

Here is Plato in Timeaus: …Now the nature of the ideal being was everlasting, but to bestow this attribute in its fulness [sic] upon a creature was impossible. Wherefore he resolved to have a moving image of eternity, and when … Continue reading →

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misquoted verses – the potter and the clay

Posted on July 16, 2013 by christopher fisher

The potter and clay imagery is found several places in the Bible. Isa 29:16 Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it, “He … Continue reading →

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God is not omnipresent

Posted on July 14, 2013 by christopher fisher

A few weeks ago, my 3 year old daughter asked me “where is God?” Before I could respond one of my 5 year old boys interjected with the Christian cliché “God is everywhere.” I looked straight at him and asked: … Continue reading →

Posted in Calvinism, God, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience, Open Theism, People, Plato, Plotinus, Theology | 20 Comments

plato on immutability

Posted on June 26, 2013 by christopher fisher

Compare this dialogue in Plato’s Republic to modern Calvinists: And what do you think of a second principle? Shall I ask you whether God is a magician, and of a nature to appear insidiously now in one shape, and now … Continue reading →

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aw pink and the calvinists

Posted on June 17, 2013 by christopher fisher

AW Pink is an author with whom I have recently become acquainted. AW Pink is a Calvinist through and through. One of his books is dedicated to the express topic of the “Sovereignty of God”. His writing style is one … Continue reading →

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the new and old king james

Posted on May 30, 2013 by christopher fisher

While I tend to use the KJV (because it is free), the NKJV is a good translation. It is not good in the sense of being amazingly accurate or properly worded. When people talk about the quality of the translation, … Continue reading →

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calvinist lies

Posted on May 26, 2013 by christopher fisher

From Norman Geisler’s Creating God in the Image of Man (p 87): Proponents of the new theism assert that “God repents in a variety of circumstances.”… However this allegation overlooks several important things. For one thing Genesis 6:6 does not … Continue reading →

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is God invisible or just not seen

Posted on April 7, 2013 by christopher fisher

The Greek word for invisible translates literally to “not looked at”. It is a negative of the word “horatos” meaning “looked at”. Continue reading →

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made in the image of God

Posted on April 6, 2013 by christopher fisher

Is it that hard to believe we physically appear like God? After all, doesn’t a father who has a son want his son to resemble him? Genesis 1:26-27 is telling mankind that we are not God’s hamsters. We have value. God, when he looks at us, sees himself. We are made in the image of God. Continue reading →

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abimelech changes God’s mind

Posted on January 29, 2013 by christopher fisher

We learn from Genesis 20 that pagan kings can reason with God and change God’s mind. Continue reading →

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