Thursday, 16 September 2010

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

  • Theology and Grief

    It has been said that all the theology in the world becomes meaningless when a person is grieving. The truth however, is that to those who grief, only sound theology can keep them sane. It provides a future hope, comfort and heavenly perspective that allows them to press on with life while in sorrow.

Sunday, 14 March 2010

  • Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy


    Something to think about: While Correct Doctrine (orthodoxy) should result in Correct Christian living (orthopraxy), if correct doctrine is held in itself apart from orthopraxy, it still results in doxology: it glorifies God through the renewing of our minds by exalting God for who he is. But correct practise (orthopraxy) without orthodoxy is mere legalism and one can argue that it is even a sin (1 Cor 10:31)

Tuesday, 09 March 2010

  • "If Calvinism is True, Why Evangelize?"







    Good video clip on why Calvinists should evangelize. One thing the video does not cover is that the gospel has a dual purpose -- both to save the elect as well as to harden the reprobates. In both cases, the word accomplishes what it was sent to do. Therefore the preacher is to preach the gospel to both the elect and the non-elect, for that is also what God commands him to do.

Monday, 08 March 2010

  • Benny Hinn Confronts Joel Osteen


    Benny Hinn rebukes Joel Osteen and Seeker Sensitive preachers declaring that they are anathema and of the devil. While I disagree with a lot of what Benny Hinn has preached in the past, I certainly agree with him in this video clip where he rebukes the seeker sensitive preachers. Watch it, you'll be surprise.


Tuesday, 02 March 2010

Saturday, 20 February 2010

  • Is the Ten Commandments still applicable in the New Covenant?

    Covenant Theology: A short reflection

    Jer 31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    What is the Law in this passage referring to?

    The law here (mentioned 6 times in Jeremiah) refers to something that was set before the Old Covenant people of God. This is not our law but God's law that has already been revealed to God's Old Covenant People at the time of Jeremiah's writing - the Decalogue/Ten Commandments.

    Therefore, Jeremiah is teaching that the law of God under the New Covenant is a law that both HAS BEEN and WILL BE written by God Himself.

    Jeremiah clearly teaches that this law of God under the New Covenant is a law that was written in stone by God (Moses on Mt. Sinai) and that will be written on hearts by God.

    Therefore, this passage refutes New Covenant Theology/Dispensationalism/Antinomianism which claims that there is no continuity of the Ten Commandments in the New Covenant.

    The text of Jeremiah clearly teaches that the basic, fundamental law of God under the New Covenant is the Decalogue/Ten Commandments. Those who reject the Ten Commandments reject the very foundation of New Covenant. In the New Covenant, God writes the Law on the hearts of all covenant citizens. There is discountinuity and continuity. There is continuity of law -- the Ten Commandments, and discontinuity of place -- stone to hearts. The promise of the New Covenant includes both a law to follow and a disposition of heart to obey (Eze 11:19).

    Romans 3:31 -- Do we then make void the law through faith?
    God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Sunday, 07 February 2010

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Monday, 18 January 2010



  • How were rocks formed? Studies in Stratification support the biblical account of the global flood. Experiments, presented in leading sedimentology journals, are shown and explained in this documentary.
    Experiments by Guy Berthault and Pierre Julien
    Published and presented 1986-2004


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  • Protestant, Evangelical Calvinistic Continuationist. δουλος του Θεου "A man is what he thinks" (Gordon Clark, The Incarnation, 1985, p.54, 64) Theological Conviction: Sola scriptura. Sola fide. Sola gratia. Solus Christus. Soli Deo gloria. Ecclesia reformata semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei. On Scriptures: Inerrant/infallible Word of God, Sola Scriptura. Soteriology: Supralapsarian, 5 point Calvinist, Covenantal. Pneumatology: Charismatic with a seat belt. Eschatology: Post-tribulation rapture (undecided). Creationism: 6 24-hour day, Young Earth Creationist. Apologetics: Scripturalism, Christian epistemology. Graduated from the University of Queensland, Australia... Majored in 2 fields of study 1) Genetics 2) Evolutionary Biology and did electives in Philosophy and New Testament Greek (1 year). Studying at Trinity Theological College (MDiv).

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