I see that BJ, the Confederate wannabe, is fibbing about my position:“Recently, I have been talking to Christians who think it is UnChrsitian to identify yourself as anything other than In Christ.”Did I ever say that? No. Can he quote me to that effect? No.What I did do was to discuss how we should rate racial identity in relation to other forms of individual and social identity. It’s low on the priority list.“If you consider yourself to be white you are UnChristian. Note: Appearently you can be a Black Christian and dodge the UnChrsitian label. Ironically this link comes via the ... [read more]

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Is it just me, or does Barack Obama look and sound a lot like a Romulan? The same elocutionary delivery. The same facial characteristics. Perhaps he is a Romulan. He got his ears bobbed to blend in. Perhaps he’s the spearhead of an alien invasion force to take over the world.Up above, the mother ship is tinkering with the Down Jones computer system to trigger an economic crisis which will propel Obama to the White House. He is using dovish rhetoric to lure us into a false sense of security, so that when the strike force beams down, it will catch us off guard. That would also account for h... [read more]

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SETH SAID:You're completely distorting everything that Forest Whitaker said…Here's a partial transcript:http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/10/make-history-with-obama.html#8327588350579691808Okay, Seth, let’s analyze what Whitaker said, and relate that to the Obama campaign:“When you say to yourself ‘okay, I have to make a choice right now because unemployment is rampant’.”Vote for Obama because, if elected, Obama will put an end to unemployment. How’s he going to do that? Intern everyone who’s out of work and put them on a Federal work farm? “We’re at war,”How will Ob... [read more]

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A review by Craig J. Hazen.

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THE DUDE SAID:"Is God glorified equally if he just created one soul for damnation/salvation as opposed to a billion?”It’s shocking to realize that, in the 21C, there are still some Neanderthals out there who can entertain the merciless idea that a loving God would send just one person to hell! How barbaric! How medieval!Why, that would amount to everlasting solitary confinement. Think how lonely that isolated soul would be.As a five-point, supralapsarian Calvinist, I’m far too soft-hearted to entertain such a sadistic spectacle.No, a kinder and gentler God would obviously have to damn... [read more]

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All eight available editions of the new ESV Study Bible can now be purchased from WTS Books.

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From Steve Hays:In light of some "Christian" bloggers like Lee Irons and Victor Reppert who are trying to excuse their patronage of Obama by minimizing his support for abortion, here's the other side of the argument.

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Actor Forrest Whitaker spoke at Grand Rapids Community College today, urging people to vote for Barak Obama. One main argument he used, a common one from liberals in this race, is that we will make history by voting in Obama. Whitaker really pulled on the egocentric strings of contemporary American youth when he claimed that, in fact, it would be they who made history, while Obama was relegated to merely making history "along side them."Not only is this argument a non-starter as a reason to vote Obama/Biden over and against McCain/Palin, since voting in a woman veep "makes history" too, it ... [read more]

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What’s the relationship between justification and sanctification in Scripture? I think we need to go back a few steps. Before we can state what’s the answer to the problem, we need to state the problem. Even if man were not a sinner, I don’t think a sinless man could ever merit God’s approval. How could he? Even if he were a good person who did good works, he wouldn’t be responsible for his own virtue. Rather, that would be because God created him with a virtuous character. But, of course, the present situation is a good deal grimmer. Man is fallen. Man is evil. Yet the natural an... [read more]

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For better or worse, and it’s some of both, the blogosphere is a free-for-all. Where the Christian blogosphere is concerned, some Christians think that Christian blogs ought to come under the supervision of the church. Speaking for myself:1. Just as the (Christian) blogosphere is a just a bunch of people, the church is just a bunch of people. As we know, churches and denominations can be every bit as irresponsible as blogs and bloggers. Some of the worst offenders are mainline denominations. As well as some independent megachurches. So I think idea of ecclesiastical oversight or supervisi... [read more]

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