Ron Henzel, Emotional Support Calvinist ☕
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Co-Author of that Bill Gothard book: https://t.co/3lokJ6AyZ3 | Author, Darby, Dualism, & the Decline of Dispensationalism: https://t.co/jjO1dRBX3u | PCA
I will take opc or pca 10 times out of 10 over this
It is a sin to be PCA because it is schismatic. This message from the PCA's founders is damning to the PCA. They literally ADMITTED that leaving PCUS was not necessary. The Presby Westminster divines, however, had no category of "optional schism." They said it's ONLY okay to leave the established church if it's SIN to stay. Either it's sin to stay or it's sin to leave. They were also crystal clear that the mere TOLERATION of heresy in the church doesn't warrant schism if the faithful are not bound to it. Rutherford says, “The Church of Corinth was not to be separated from, nor Thyatira, where the resurrection was denied, and false doctrine maintained” This message quoted by Dr. Duncan says the founders of the PCA hoped their schism would make the PCUS more conservative, but it did the opposite. PCUSA's liberalism is PCA's fault.
So ironic when anti-Calvinists keep finding new ways to claim that “all” (definition of the Latin omni in “omniscience”) doesn’t mean all when it comes to God’s knowledge, despite the fact that γινώσκει πάντα (ginṓskei pánta) in 1Jn 3:20 means “He knows all (or everything).” First, these Open Theists deny God knows all about the future. Now they’re denying He knows all about us, even though Scripture says He does to the point that He’s ’“intimately acquainted” (סָכַן, sākhan, Ps 139:3 NASB) with everything about us (Ps 139:2-4, 15-16, 23-24). When Scripture says, “He knows the secrets of the heart” (Ps 44:21; cf. Lk 16:15; Acts 15:8; Rom 8:27) it means that He knows what it feels like to be us, just like when He tells the Israelites, “You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt” (Ex 23:9) means they know what it feels like to be a sojourner. To deny the possibility of God knowing what an experience feels like even though He hasn’t experienced it Himself simply begs the question of the possibility of absolute divine omniscience itself. It’s ultimately a circular argument. His intimate acquaintance with our experiences isn’t dependent on some “experience” of His own as ours is (as if God has temporal experiences!), and as Christ’s was as a man (Heb 4:15). What the eternal Son of God—God the Son—knows as deity infinitely transcends what the Christ whom He incarnates knows as a finite man. I dealt with this question from Warren McGrew (a.k.a. @The_Idol_Killer—another irony, since Open Theism is a form of idolatry) a little over a week ago when I wrote, “If ‘omniscience’ means anything, @Soteriology101, it means that even prior to the Incarnation, God knew everything there is to know about every human experience, including what those experiences feel like to us.” Read the whole post here: x.com/ronhenzel/stat…
@ronhenzel @darknytPB @The_Idol_Killer The point, which you seem to be missing, is that you guys limit God’s knowledge. You accept your own limits on it, but you call other people not Christians when they do the same thing in a way that you disagree with. It’s hypocritical.
@rootcausesleuth It’s an absurd fallacy to posit that this involves a limitation on God’s part. God knows everything there is to know about non-rational/irrational propositions, primarily that they’re entirely fictional. The laws of logic are grounded in God’s immutable nature (1Cor 14:33a).
The fact that God created a logically coherent universe in which inherent contradictions cannot exist and therefore cannot be “known” in any rational sense doesn’t “limit God’s knowledge.” Rather, it calls into question the rationality of anyone who claims that it does.
