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W/ a post like this, one may wonder why God chose Israel and not America. And if you talk about Israel being chosen b/c it was not great, then the lack of greatness is a virtue to be commended, which is the opposite of what you are claiming for the US. And here is a textbook case of irony...

I am still a citizen of the states. But I more or less use it the same way Paul used his roman citizenship. I don't think there is anything in the US itself that sets it apart from other nations very similar. Did you watch the video i posted in the OP??? That is one way to sum up the...

If you think so, then why? if not... why not? This video got me thinking about it Aside: are you less of a Christian for believing that America is not the best (and even that it is not all that great)?

If you were honest, you would say a hermeneutic that differs from your own as well as measuring orthodoxy based on your views. It sounds like you are the plumbline and authority in your theology and practice. Sound familiar to any other big daddy?

So what do you think? Here is a short blog post by J. D. Greear Here is an article by Dr. Hammett that I would like to get my hands on that discuss it in a more "scholarly way":

I think "satan" is better understood as a title rather than a personal name (difference between God and YHWH). Thus the OT referred to him as "the satan" or the enemy/adversary (i.e. as in Job). I reject both Isa. 14 or Eze. 28 as referring to Satan (or worse, Lucifer). I think Luke 10:18 and...

I can get on board with that.

Maybe I didn't make that clear enough... that dust and adamah are not the same word. But "dust" is in construct to adamah (syntactically at the least; although I'm looking at a hebrew text w/ no vowel pointings so it may be grammatically as well), and dust conveys something away from the...

Or we are just reaching back to our historic reformed roots :D BTW... Wright is a reformed guy too, so I like him for that reason as well.

I live in Central America on a dirt road. During "dry season", the road is quite dusty. So I get the idea. But I am still not sure that "dust" is conveying the concept so clearly as simply the word "dirt" would do. I believe that the concept of being formed out of dirt (along w/ a play on...

I like your intertextuality, however I'm wondering if the ancients thought in terms of organic and inorganic. Nevertheless, I still feel that "dust" conveys something that is a bit foreign to many of us. Connotation for a house wife verses (who dusts the furniture) or someone living in the...

Why do modern translations continue to translated Gen. 2:7 as "dust" when the same word is translated in other places as "soil" (9:20)??? I can't figure how the concept of "dust" does anything to help us make the theological connections w/ Adam as being formed from adamah (thus the image of...

I don't think even he agrees w/ the direction of the CoE. And I appreciate that the man is not just a denominational leader, but a voice for all evangelicals.

I'm not sure that anyone here is arguing that this is a baptist distinctive. It is no more distinctive than reformed theology is to baptist theology. So there is no reason to relocate it to another part of the BB. Since there are baptist who believe the so called NPP (hard to call it new when...

I'm sure there is a lot of your tongue firmly pressed to your inner cheek. However, I don't really even understand your point.

Just read the first footnote... ETS, I'm impressed. Congrats dude!!! My pastor will be there. Wish I could as well, but someone has to stay behind and preach Sunday ;)

Can't wait to read it. Is this for ETS or something??? I guess that would be hard since those papers are submitted early. Are you taking a class?

:D Church of England

We should all strive to be better thinkers... not a denominational issue. It just happens that the COE has come good thinkers.

Denominations matter little to me when compared to someone's theology and the articulation of said theology. Stott, Wright, and Wright (you didn't mention Christorpher Wright, Stott's protege) are men w/ an amazing grasp of the Word. I don't always agree with them, but I don't always agree w/...