Ronnie W Rogers

Calvinist Richard Muller Fails to Diminish Calvinism’s Micro-Determinism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / September 13, 2021 / Comments Off

To soften the determinism of Calvinism, Calvinists must decrease the unflinching determinism of compatibilism.[1] Richard Muller seeks to do so through what he calls synchronic contingency. He says synchronic contingency “means that for one moment of time, there is a true alternative for the state of affairs that actually occurs.”[2] However, it is important to…

Calvinist Paul Helm Fails to Acquit God of Causing Evil

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 30, 2021 / Comments Off

Closely related to Calvinism’s problem with the fall is its problem with the presence of evil (See my articles The Word “Permit” Is As Micro-Determined as Everything Else; D.A. Carson Fails to Absolve God of Causing Evil, and Calvinism Fails to Absolve God from Causing the Fall ). The reality of evil is very problematic…

Calvinist D.A. Carson Fails to Acquit God of Causing Evil

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 16, 2021 / Comments Off

D.A. Carson says of his position regarding moral freedom, “In the realm of philosophical theology, this position is sometimes called compatibilism. It simply means that God’s unconditioned sovereignty and the responsibility of human beings are mutually compatible.”[1] Commenting on Carson’s practice of improperly defining compatibilism (as he has done here), philosopher Paul Gould says, “Notice,…

The Word “Permit” In Calvinism Is as Micro-determined As Everything Else

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 2, 2021 / Comments Off

When Calvinists use phrases like “God does not desire man to sin, but He does permit sin,” it is easy to misconstrue their meaning of the word permit and understand it in the libertarian sense.[1] The libertarian understanding, which is the normal way the word is used and understood, would simply mean God created Adam and Eve so that they…

In Advocacy of the Color-Blind Principle

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 19, 2021 / Comments Off

The color-blind principle does not mean we do not see a person’s skin color or detect that others are different from us (also referred to as color-indifference). Our church has about ten different ethnicities at any given time, although the particular ethnicities have varied over the years. I assure you that everyone can tell whether…

Critical Race Theory, the Military, and Your Unredeemable Family

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 7, 2021 / Comments Off

Robin DiAngelo’s best-selling book, White Fragility, is used in educational, corporate, and government sensitivity training to advance so-called social justice. White children in schools and white adults in government and businesses are told they are racists because they are white, and they must work at becoming less white. She tells white people to get over their…

The Gospel Destroys Racism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 7, 2021 / Comments Off

A friend of mine ministers to inmates in a state prison. He recently shared this story an inmate shared with him. The man was in prison a few years ago, and while there, he belonged to a white supremacist gang. He was released from prison but then committed another crime. This time, he was sent…

Resolution on the Incompatibility of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality with The Baptist Faith and Message

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 24, 2021 / Comments Off

Presidential candidate Mike Stone, along with fifty other original signers, will jointly present the following Resolution against the use of critical race theory and intersectionality (CRT/I) at the Southern Baptist Convention, June 13-16, Nashville, Tenn. This Resolution is to be presented in order to repudiate and lessen the damage done by the 2019 Resolution 9,…

Dr. Mohler’s Claim That the Church Is Racist Does Not Comport with the Facts

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 10, 2021 / Comments Off

Dr. Mohler portrays the culture and church, including the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), as having a “massive” racism problem, and this is one-way white racism toward blacks.[1] He emphatically states, “I can’t associate with any assertion that we do not have a massive problem in the society and in the church with claims of racial…

How I Know Social Justice Is Cultural Marxism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 26, 2021 / Comments Off

I want to set the record straight on the appropriateness of using cultural Marxism and social justice interchangeably. Below is a list of thirty brief reasons why we not only can use the two terms interchangeably but, for clarity’s sake regarding the nature of social justice as presently promoted, we should do so. To fail…