Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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November 11, 2009

Too many articles in your Articles of Faith

Posted by Jason Dulle under Odds & Ends, Theology
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People rarely agree.  Getting people to agree on one point is difficult enough; getting people to agree on 20, 30, and 50 points in nearly impossible.  In matters of religion, I think it is impossible!  Given the rarity of agreement, one would think that Christian denominations would limit their statements of faith to include only the most salient doctrines of Christianity, as well as a few denominational distinctives thrown in for good measure!  And yet, it is common for denominational statements of faith to include many articles on secondary, tertiary, and quaternary doctrines, as well as non-biblical issues.  This seems to me to be a recipe for disaster.

If an organization has, say, 30 articles in their articles of faith that one must assent to in order to belong to the group, one of at least four things will happen:

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November 11, 2009

Craig vs. Borg on Divine Ineffability

Posted by Jason Dulle under Apologetics, Nature of God, Pluralism, Theology
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Marcus Borg, like so many other theological liberals (although I must admit that Borg is so liberal that even a lot of theological liberals would disown him as such), claims God is ineffable.  During a recent debate between Borg and William Lane Craig, Craig pointed out that to say God is ineffable is to say that no human concept is applicable to God.  But since ineffability is a human concept, it doesn’t apply to God either.  This is self-refuting, and thus cannot be true.  Great point!