by Dr. Kenneth Talbot President Whitefield Theological Seminary Lakeland, Florida Dr. R. C. Sproul is among the best theologians in modern America today. His ministry has been to communicate complicated doctrines in Reformed theology in a manner that the laity can gain great benefit in their understanding of biblical doctrine and its application in their Christian [...]
The Definitive Nature of Infinitude in Divine Theism ~by~ Dr. Kenneth Gary Talbot Whitefield Theological Seminary Lakeland, Florida. Introduction to the issue When we consider the complex nature of the theological task of defining the being of God, that is, His attributes or characteristics, we must consider the possible affect on our understanding and its [...]
This is from the wonderful book, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant and Scholastic Theology (Baker, 1985). Richard A. Muller has done Christianity a great service. I have quoted him before in my articles on “infinity”, but want to quote the entire passage under the entry: infinitas. infinitas: infinitude; especially, [...]
John Scargy has written a piece that ought to cause one’s jaw to drop to floor. Scargy is a “Full Preterist” by the way, who also claims to be “Reformed.” Yet, a Church of Christ gentlman, Jeff Vaughn, had to point out what the Westminster Confession of Faith states. To which, scargy replies, “Have to [...]
Since Dave Green and I have been carrying on the conversation about Infinity, and since Green is once again backpeddling (he used to say it was a “paradox” – he now, suddenly, denies that it is a paradox), then I will respond in short. Green recently wrote, ” “Actual infinity,”which is a technical term, and [...]
If you have been following the recent exchanges between me and Full Preterist teacher, Dave Green (along with a few others, namely, on this site, former Full Preterist, Sharon Nichols) then you will have seen where Mr. Green finally admits that Full Preterism cannot have any notion whatsoever of an “end of history” or, what [...]
Ken Palmer is a dyed in the wool Full Preterist. I recently came across an article about me which claims that I never really understood Full Preterism. Interesting. My book was published by Don Preston, touted by Jack Scott, and my other book was published by King’s outfit, Bi-Millennial Publications. I sat at there feet. [...]
There have been, since I have brought this argument up, a few categories that the responses can fit into. The First Category is just out right denial. I am being too “speculative” and “philosophical”. My response to this is that I didn’t make this argument up. I got it from my library. Theology, and his [...]
It fell off the page and right into my lap. A verse that I have undoubtedly read hundreds of times came alive recently while reading an article in JETS (Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 53, No. 3. Sept. 2010). The article in question was written by Gordon-Conwell Professor of Old Testament, Jeffery J. Niehaus [...]
I have written three articles on this issue, coming at it from a theological/logical viewpoint. I think my case has been, thus far, made. Is 9.7 cannot be used to support an “infinitely increasing” people as maintained by the FP (see first article and comments). In this paper, I am going to make a biblical [...]
The responses that I have received so far from FP have been, in the main, thoughtful. They are kind of a “I’ll have to really take a look at this.” Some have accepted it in one way or the other, and that is heartening. I know that I am reading the data of classic theism [...]
I have now been charged with devaluing God and defining him more akin to “Hercules.” If this were not laughable (since Hercules was not “all knowing”), I would not take it serious. But, it has been stated with seriousness. Imagine, the classic, theistic definition of God is now a reduction of God to Hercules. Is [...]
The following paper is the fruition of almost two years of thought. I first posted an internet article on Sovereign Grace Preterism entitled, “A Proposal: An End to History”, back in 2008. That met with some comments, for and against, but it was clear that most who responded, including Jason Bradfield and Mike Grace, two [...]