What Would You Readers Like Me to Address?

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Any topics in particular you my readers would like me to address? Not promising to address any or all suggestions, but would at least like to get a feel for what issues you all are interested in as well. My guess is that Calvinism, and questions surrounding Calvinism are still most prominent among many of my readers; but I’m not totally sure. Anyway, let me know in the comments.

24 thoughts on “What Would You Readers Like Me to Address?”

  1. I’d appreciate a compared analysis of justification by faith according to NT Wright’s NPP VS traditional Reformed views.
    Thank you!

  2. Hi Bobby
    We have so many views that have been imposed on us by well meaning men and women. Can we allow our minds to be changed and come from His purpose and council before the foundation of the world, before time began. Rather than looking at the fall as humanities beginning open up to God’s view of all humanity before there even was any sin and how Jesus came to reveal this. One starting scripture might be 2 Timothy 1:8-11. Is it possible that the end is the same as the beginning with God?

  3. I’d like some chats on church worship culture and JB’s “worship, community and the Triune God of grace”.
    Maybe comparing the unitarian/trinitarian modes that he illustrates ?
    And talking about what relational/participational worship looks like and the why ?

  4. Was Calvin a false preacher because he failed to see that God justified all His elect by imputing the righteousness earned by Christ to their accounts while imputing their sin to His at and by the cross?

  5. Karl,

    I’ve done that in years past, in fact I might have something in my archives on NTW. In short: I think Wright is wrong. πŸ™‚

  6. John,

    That’s what my whole category on ‘analogy of faith’ or analogia fide (check my sidebar) is about. We need the mind of Christ to know God; which is what we’ve been given through salvation and in participation with Christ. We have something greater than not lesser than before the Fall.

  8. iheartagw,

    I’m not sure what you’re getting at. John Calvin didn’t believe Christ’s righteousness wasn’t imputed to the elect, just the opposite.

  10. John here’s my category on analogy of faith: https://growrag.wordpress.com/category/analogy-of-faith/

    And theological ontology: https://growrag.wordpress.com/category/theological-ontology/

    Both of these categories will get into dealing with your question. I have other categories like ‘apocalyptics’ ‘theological epistemology’ etc that also deal with your question. Indeed, much of my blog is dedicated, or has been to dealing with your question at a certain level.

  11. Scripture tells us that God is in control everything. Do you think the idea of God’s controlling involves both allowing and suppressing without being charge of inconsistent or illogical? I just try to ask this if you can provide us a solid defense on the matter. Thank you.

  12. I reject the sort of Aristotelian causal framework that usually attends your question jtl. I have posts on this as well. TF Torrance is good at defeating that framework as he undercuts it by appealing to the Einsteinian revolution in regard to the theory of relativity etc. I’ll find a link to a post that gets at this.

  13. Thanks Bobby. It’s a pleasure for me to find that link. God bless you…

  15. Bobby, first off thanks for all your work on this blog. I’ve read almost every post for years now and your work has done a lot to shape my thinking and my faith.

    In answer to your question, it would be great to see some more bible-study-like posts where you examine certain relevant texts and talk through how to read them. It seems like you mostly interact with quotes from books or with conceptual, principle-based thought building and it would be a cool counter-point to start with a text and go from there. I know this isn’t completely foreign to your writing but I’d like to see more.

    Specifically, I’ve always been troubled by Romans 9:19-24 and would love to hear your thoughts on the passage.

  16. Anthony, thanks! And I’m humbled to have had any part in contributing to your theological-thought-formation πŸ™‚ .

    I agree. I’d like to do more bible study like posts; in all honesty they take longer to write than many of my other types of posts do. But that would be a good exercise, so I’ll try to do that as I have time.

    I don’t know if you’ve ever read David Gibson’s published PhD dissertation Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth, but if not I recommend. In his analysis he critically presents Barth’s reading of the passage you refer to; I would own much of Barth’s exegesis as my own. Maybe I’ll blog through some of the more pertinent points of exegesis therein as presented by Gibson. (also if you’re interested in a pdf copy of Gibson’s book let me known and I can forward that to you).

  17. Hello Bobby, In our last interactions I think I understood you to believe that only a select group of people (Christians?) are going to be resurrected when Christ returns. I would like you to either correct me on that or hear more of your view on who will and who will not be resurrected when Christ returns.
    Thank you.

  18. I don’t remember that interaction, Brian. But I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I believe Christians will be resurrected, and non-Christians will be judged and banished to an eternal hell (the trad view). It’s the plain and traditional understanding of Scripture that the majority of the Church catholic has maintained for millennia.

  19. Okay so just to be clear about what you mean, do you believe non-Christians will be resurrected before they are judged and banished? If not, then do you believe that the non-Christian’s disembodied soul will be judged and banished to an eternal hell and their corpses left in the grave? Thank you.

  20. Brian, I remember that original thread now. I already gave you my response there. I don’t find this particular discussion all that interesting to be honest.

  21. Okay fair enough Bobby. I will let your comments on that thread stand as they are: that you believe only Christians will be resurrected from the grave. Thank you.

  22. Bobby, you have a high view of scripture – so, what is scripture? Is a guy sitting in his room reading an NASB, NIV, or other β€œapproved” English bible reading scripture? Is the LXX scripture?

    Are only the original writings scripture? If so, what good is that in the general history of the church when no one has seen them?

    β€œGod…in these last days God has spoken in His Son…” (Heb 1:1-2) – how do we know that we are hearing His voice?

    Thanks (I don’t remember you ever getting into this, if you have, sorry)

  23. In undergrad we spent a whole semester in a class called Text and Canon on this question. Much of the NT is based on a translation (LXX). The Apostle Paul in Timothy when he talks about the Scriptures he knew since his youth brought salvation, was presumably the LXXβ€”a translation. Based on this, from Scripture, we can affirm that translations of the β€œoriginals” can be understood as Scripture. Beyond that, since Scripture’s primary orientation finds its reality in its meaning, who is Christ, any translation of the originals that accurately capture that meaning can be understood as Scripture. So my position is that Scripture primarily finds its ontology in its instrumentality as the ordained place for the Christian to encounter God in Christ.

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