Dr Paul Allen

 "I am the Good Shepherd"  (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Acts 9:1–19 “Falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul,Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ And he said, ‘Who are you, Lord ?’” (vv. 4–5a). Every Christian tradition has formulated some doctrine of regeneration . Despite the differing formulations of this doctrine, however, there are ultimately only two different views of the role of man and the role of God in regeneration: monergism or synergism . A synergistic view of regeneration says man and God cooperate in bringing new life to a person. The Lord acts upon the heart of the unbeliever, imploring him to change. However, though God calls to the heart, regeneration cannot occur unless the unbeliever, who has the ability to say, “yes,” or “no,” embraces the divine call.  There are several problems with this view. First, synergism sees the human will working with the divine will to achieve salvation. Y...

Image via Wikipedia Many of you would, no doubt, agree that there is a great need to recover the gospel in our age.  In order to begin moving out of the present state of chaos in the church, we need to subvert many of the false narratives borrowed from the world that have taken hold of us.   The intent of this book is both to dismantle one of these core inconsistent narratives in light of Holy Scripture and then replace it with a consistent and biblical one.  I will propose that one of the most dominant reasons for the current downgrade in the Church is the presuppositional lens through which Scripture is read called "libertarian freedom".  To begin to understand the full extent of the crisis we must begin here. As we define and then closely explore the problems with libertarian free will we will not only expose its outright errors but perhaps even more importantly, its inconsistencies which may have previously gone unnoticed by some. This will help us all th...

Image via Wikipedia Many of you would, no doubt, agree that there is a great need to recover the gospel in our age.  In order to begin moving out of the present state of chaos in the church, we need to subvert many of the false narratives borrowed from the world that have taken hold of us.   The intent of this book is both to dismantle one of these core inconsistent narratives in light of Holy Scripture and then replace it with a consistent and biblical one.  I will propose that one of the most dominant reasons for the current downgrade in the Church is the presuppositional lens through which Scripture is read called "libertarian freedom".  To begin to understand the full extent of the crisis we must begin here. As we define and then closely explore the problems with libertarian free will we will not only expose its outright errors but perhaps even more importantly, its inconsistencies which may have previously gone unnoticed by some. This will help us all th...