Ronnie W. Rogers
Some Calvinist’s aver that ideas like limited atonement, unconditional election, and selective regeneration really make no difference in the nature of the evangelistic endeavor, i.e. these are tertiary or irrelevant to the proclamation of the gospel. To wit, God being secretly pleased to withhold salvation from a vast proportion of the humanity that He created…
Read MoreThe loss of spiritual freedom for supposed physical freedom is reason enough to become informed, and to work and pray for the collapse of ObamaCare. Following are some of the ways that ObamaCare will further erode religious freedom in the U.S. Additionally, check out the “ObamaCare and its Mandates Fact sheet” at Alliance Defending Freedom.…
Read MoreScience cannot say that there is no God, no evidence for God, or that God is not knowable because He is by definition beyond the detectability of laboratory experiments, and His existence offers the best inferential answer to explain some observable data.[1] As far as Richard Dawkins naturalistic assertion “that what is knowable is what…
Read MoreThe familiarity with sin, human need, and tragedies can transform compassion into cold conversations. For example, the forty-year war in this country to end legalized abortion, which has taken the lives of fifty million innocent babies and wounded an inestimable amount of relatives and friends can seem so uncorrectable that Christian compassion, which requires involvement,…
Read MoreFollowing is another of my responses to a comment to my article “The Exalted View of God in Scripture” posted on SBCToday.com in March 2014. This article, without all of the responses recorded on SBC Today, is also on this blog if you scroll down to April 7. Thanks for your response. I truly did enjoy…
Read MoreWe have two Chihuahuas pictured here. Luna is on the left, and Lilly is on the right. They have been inseparable friends for eight years. If you visited the Rogers home and were not properly welcomed by Gina or me, Luna and Lilly always made up for our inhospitableness. This is true whether you were…
Read MoreFollowing is my response to a comment to my article “The Exalted View of God in Scripture” posted on SBCToday.com in March 2014. The same article is posted on this blog, April 7th, without all of the comments that can be found on SBCToday.com. When I say “you said” I am referring to his comment…
Read MoreAccording to Calvinism, it pleased God to create the human race with the intent of withholding saving grace from the vast majority of His creation. According to Scripture, God was pleased to offer everyone salvific grace and mercy, withholding judgment until grace and mercy are utterly spurned. “The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And…
Read MoreHumility rather than confidence is the apparel of security. In the security of lives going well, we can often envisage ourselves acting supremely in future difficulties or suffering the present peril of others. We should learn from Peter. Christ told Peter of his future denial of Him, and Peter argued that he would not fail…
Read MoreThis is the title of a document that was produced in the spring of 2012 by Pastor Eric Hankins. It sets forth the beliefs of many Southern Baptists regarding critical points of God’s salvation plan. The signers of this document and many likeminded others reject Calvinism along with the label non-Calvinist; preferring to describe themselves…
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