The blog of a Middle Anglican
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Divine sovereignty implies predestination and preordination, but it also implies a duty of obedience towards the sovereign God. This does not just mean obedience to his will as revealed in (say) the Ten Commandments, but also the more particular requirements he places upon each one of us. The latter sometimes going by the name of [...]
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C S Lewis once remarked that either Christianity is false, in which case it is of no importance, or else it is true, in which case it is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important. You will sometimes hear atheists say that, although it seems very unlikely, they cannot absolutely [...]
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The “saintly history” of the past few posts will resume shortly. I have been debating with a former evangelical, now an atheist, on the web, and he can’t get it out of his head that I am trying to convert him. It seems to me that evangelicals far too easily forget that conversion is the [...]
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Between them the lives of Paul, Polycarp and Irenaeus, which were considered in previous posts, cover the period 30-200AD. Around 200AD, Cyprianus Thascius Cecilius was born in Carthage, North Africa. Up until his conversion ca 245 Cyprian held a position as a teacher of rhetoric, he was well known as a writer, and also for [...]
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I have just seen an item on the BBC website. It seems that some idiot organisation by the name of Christian Voice is trying to get the atheist adverts on the side of London buses banned. Apparently they haven’t heard that the UK is a democracy, and given half the chance they would probably like [...]
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It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the demand which Christian discipleship makes upon us. One of the words which the New Testament writers used to describe our relationship to God tends, in English, to be politely translated as servant. In the original Greek it means slave. Maybe that would have have raised relatively [...]
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