by Kevin Bauder | Oct 13, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, Pneumatology
From Tozer: There is another kind of evidence. It is the immediate evidence of the inner life. That is the evidence by which you know you are alive. If I were to prove that you weren’t alive, you would chuckle and go home just as alive as you are now and not a bit...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 12, 2016 | Dispensationalism, Hermeneutics
What’s wrong with the world? Turns out, it’s dispensationalism. Who knew? Sadly, this understanding creates not only complete and utter apathy, but something far worse. Sure, there is apathy for the environment, and apathy for humanity, but, like a...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 12, 2016 | Dispensationalism, Hermeneutics
Mark Snoeberger is a professor at our sister institution, Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. He has written has a useful post on literal interpretation. He highlights two problems: first, a danger that literal interpreters face, and second, the problem of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 12, 2016 | Bioethics, Documents, Downloads, Ethics
A couple of quotations: The understanding of sexual orientation as an innate, biologically fixed property of human beings—the idea that people are “born that way”—is not supported by scientific evidence. The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 11, 2016 | Devotion, Vocation
While he never attended Central Seminary, Ralph Turk pastored in Minnesota and was for a while part of the Central Seminary environment. He was also one of the professors, and briefly dean, at the seminary I attended. One of the most memorable courses I ever took was...