Yesterday I shared the example of how modern systematic theology is a like a long high wall that attempts to neatly divide orthodoxy from heresy but how that model ultimately FAILS. Today, using a hamburger, I wanna give you another example to further demonstrate modern systematic theology’s weaknesses. So how would a systematic theologian attempt […]
Archives for June 2023
1S8-10: How Systematic Theology Is Like A Wall That Causes Unscriptural Divisions
“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall.”-Donald Trump Why in the world am I quoting Donald Trump when he boasted about building […]
1S8-9: Why People Go To Their Deathbeds Clutching Onto Religious Falsehoods
Alrighty, buckle in.. Because we’re gonna review what we’ve gone over the past couple of days about “Literary Criticism”, “Orthodoxy/Heresy”, “Modern Systematic Theology” and so on. So if you recall, this can of worms was opened up when we began discussing the new form of Bible academia known as Literary Criticism. This school of thought […]
1S8-8: Why Believers Are Experts At Denying Their Sin And Idolatry
The big theme we see consistently playing out over and over again like a broken record in the Scriptures is the cycle of Israel going through apostasy to oppression to repentance to deliverance…and back to apostasy again. What’s interesting is while in the midst of their apostasy stage, they were always in denial about it. […]
1S8-7: The One Thing The Church Should Never Had Done During The Enlightenment
In response to the Enlightenment, the church did the one thing they should have never done. They compromised. They tolerated the demands of an increasingly elitist and arrogant Enlightenment society who held up science and the human intellect as the new idols of worship. It was quite an intimidating presentation to say the least. And the […]