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Ben Robin
@benjaminjrobin
Child of God | Husband to @annaaarobin | Father to four | Pastor @TRBCFW | Systematic Theology PhD @SBTS on Bavinck and natural theology
Fort Worth, TX Katılım Nisan 2009
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@Alex_DiPrima @TonyReinke Yes! I say this all the time!
We assign it in our internship. I call it a book on pastoring disguised as a book on the Christian life!
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Superb. Well done, @TonyReinke. One of the most helpful and truly edifying books I’ve ever read.
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It’s true. This video did it for me: youtu.be/IOk9SVzqHsk?si…
It was always mesmerizing, now it’s beautiful.
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Anna Robin@annaaarobin
My husband has chosen the last 48 hours of the Olympics to get REALLY into curling. The only sport that has been on every single day of the Olympics and he chooses now?? YOU’RE LATE @benjaminjrobin
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@EddyEkofo @DirkWalstead @jonathanramont I would simply suggest that Bavinck intersects the current biblicist/retrievalist debate at a perpendicular angle, personally.
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@benjaminjrobin @DirkWalstead @jonathanramont Sure! That quote I shared remain true in its context.
The retrievalists with their overly inflated sense of superiority thinks no one can understand anything apart from themselves hence here we are.
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If scripture contains all the necessary elements it does not then follow that philosophy does not need to add anything to our formulations. Eg. Logic is necessary to create our formulations.
Eduardus Ekofius@EddyEkofo
“Scripture contains all the elements out of which theology has constructed the trinitarian dogma. Not a single essential element is lacking. Hence, philosophy does not need to add anything: even the logos-doctrine is found in the New Testament. —Bavinck, DoG, p. 275
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@EddyEkofo @DirkWalstead @jonathanramont To make sense of Bavinck’s theology, though, we need to reckon with all that he said.
For example, “properly speaking, a dogmatic system can never be obtained from Scripture. One would get at most a kind of Biblical Theology, or whatever else one might call this discipline.”
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@EddyEkofo @DirkWalstead @jonathanramont Hey brother, I don’t think we’ve met. To be honest, I’m not sure what way you’re taking Bavinck, as I’m not aware of your work. To be clear, I think what Bav said in the original quote is true and simply what the Reformers meant by what is sometimes called sola Scriptura.
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@jonathanramont To be fair to the sources, we must acknowledge and appreciate the development between Bavinck and, say, Dooyeweerd or Van Til.
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@benjaminjrobin I don't think Eddy is taking him that way.
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@jonathanramont But he’s implicitly distinguishing between elements (matter) and forms, no?
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This is like saying, "scripture contains everything we need to know for eternal life, therefore grammar does not need to add anything to our studies of it" complete non sequitur
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@lukestamps One of the more baffling parts of that conversation!
“Why wouldn’t God reveal more obvious proofs to a 21st century Western mind like including Einstein’s formulas in the context of an ancient near Eastern text?”
If that’s not “narrow-minded,” I don’t know what is.
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Christianity has a category for pretty much everything Harris wants in terms of natural knowledge and virtue. His worldview is much more intolerant and narrow-minded.
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Sam Harris's basic message to Ross Douthat: All the historical problems with secularism are easily dismissed. All the historical problems with religion are intractable.
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@kdclaunch And how delighted I was to see you were the one teaching them these precious truths about glorious God, brother!
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What an encouraging thing to see so much interest in the Trinity!
Jeremy Pierre@jeremypierre
Thrilling to see a room full of teenagers coming to hear about the nature of the triune God from @SBTS prof @kdclaunch at Cross Con. May they love Him more.
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@jonathanramont Do we know what nature teaches by inference or intuition in your view?
It seems to me this is a crucial neo-Thomist/neo-Calvinist divide.
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Nature is not secular. It is not indifferent to God. Natural revelation/law reveals the true and living God and his requirements for us.
Grace perfects nature by teaching us how we may be united to him, not that he exists or that we have duties to him. We already know those.
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@JosephGilbert_ In fact, according to our theologians, the will is unable to be coerced by definition (cf. á Brakel).
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Luckily this isn’t Calvinism either.
We readily affirm that man has free will. He is not coerced in any of his actions.
Brandon Lansdown@BrandonLansdown
Calvinism goes wrong when it’s not understood and then explained very poorly. If God gave us free will, it would be a death sentence every single time. I’m thankful that only He has a free will.
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@GraySutanto Yessssss! I was troubled by the same thing when I saw it
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@JeffreyPWiesner Now, how might we put this principle in a picture? Hmmm.
What if the truths of Scripture are as beautiful and as plentiful as the crevices in the Alps or the shapes of the snowflakes there?
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What if…
God opened wide for preachers his book of creation to give us a limitless palette for painting our proclamations from his book of redemption?
And WHAT IF…
More preachers aimed to be as skilled at seeing God’s glory in nature as they are in Scripture?
Me included.
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@MichaelCarlino @EddyEkofo More that they're all strictly incommunicable yet all analogically communicated to us
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The distinction between incommunicable and communicable attributes really bothers me. Human souls are simple, number lines are infinite, we will be immutable in glory etc. Conversely, God alone is good, wise, and just. Whatever we attribute to God has some creaturely analogy
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@lukestamps In fact, frankly, it seems to me some recent, pop work on spirituality misses the nuances of various mysticisms (N.B. plural!)
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@lukestamps A stirring read! Persuasive at least on the historical front, I think. He establishes a strong continuity on spirituality between medievals (e.g., Bernard and á Kempis) and the Dutch Further Reformation (e.g., Witsius, á Brakel, etc.)
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Evelyn Underhill comparing and contrasting mysticism and magic is worthwhile reading.
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