Sabbath and Industry

Near the end of the debate (starting at 1:01:27 in the .mp3) I presented a very abbreviated version of an argument that Sabbatarianism is not consistent with use of electricity on the Sabbath.  To quote prominent Sabbatarian Joseph Pipa,
It is a lame excuse to say ‘They are going to be there anyway, so it really [...]

Ignorance Negates Responsibility

We Reformed types know very well that “inability does not negate responsibility.”  The very opening words of WCF 1.1 are in this vein: “the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable,” and of course, at the [...]

Sabbath Reflections

A few thoughts coming out of last night’s H&S:
First of all, the term “Creation Ordinance” gets tossed around a lot in discussions of the Sabbath.  It seems to me that “Creation Ordinance” is not particularly-well defined.  Kazooless and I may have been working to different definitions.  K is probably thinking “Creation=Universal” and “Ordinance=Commandment”.  But for [...]

Hoagies & Stogies: Sabbath

MP3 are up!  Come & get ‘em!

Part 1 (Debate) 1:15:08, 17MB
Part 2 (Q&A) 21:40, 5MB

Thanks to Jeff for hosting the audio, and of course thanks more for a good discussion!
Everybody mark your calendars for the next event: the date is as easy to remember as 1/23!

Calvin on Anabaptists

Just ran across a nice quote from Calvin showing what he had to deal with in his day:
Certain Anabaptists of our day conjure up some sort of frenzied excess instead of spiritual regeneration. The children of God, they assert, restored to the state of innocence, now need not take care to bridle the lust of the [...]

Calvin on Law & Gospel

While preparing to teach on II Cor 3:16, I ran across a great passage from Calvin’s commentary on II Cor 3:7.  And since my blog has been in a dearth lately, I thought a little cut & paste would be in order.  Commenting on the phrase “ministry of death,” Calvin turns to the question, isn’t [...]

Institutes .mp3

For any who might be trying to keep up with the Princeton Seminary’s Reading Schedule for Calvin’s Institutes, here’s a helpful tip for how to download the .mp3 recorded readings for listening away from the computer.

Log in to Google Reader.  If you have ever signed up for any of Google’s free services (gmail, picasaweb, etc.) [...]

Communion & Presence

Some thoughts on last week’s Hoagies & Stogies: Communion.
It was a really good one — the largest ever with about 80 men present, and many told me how much they liked the debate.  The distinction between Lutheran Real Physical Presence and Reformed Real Spiritual Presence was clear, and the debate was vigorous.
Interestingly, Reformed pastor Mike [...]

More from Calvin the Short-Earther

More from Calvin:
Therein time was first marked so that by a continuing succession of years believers might arrive at the primal source of the human race and of all things. This knowledge is especially useful not only to resist the monstrous fables that formerly were in vogue in Egypt and in other regions of the [...]

Galileo and Duality

One new thing I learned from Galileo’s Daughter was the extent of Galileo’s good faith efforts to submit to Rome.  After the edict of 1616 against Copernican heliocentrism, Galileo bent over backwards to clear the manuscript of his Dialogues for publication — with both the head Office of the Inquisitor in Rome, and his local [...]