College Study #58: "Solving the Ancient Puzzles: the Dilemma of Free Will"

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58^th teaching

12.30.2013

“God’s Sovereignty: Solving the Ancient Puzzles”

The Dilemma of Free Will

College Study #57: "Solving the Ancient Puzzles: the Problem of Evil"

 

 

‘Behold, the Lamb of God’

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57^th teaching

12.9.2013

 

“God’s Sovereignty: Solving the Ancient Puzzles”

College Study #56: "God's Sovereignty: His Position and Power"

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56^th teaching

12.2.2013

 

“God’s Sovereignty”

 

 

College Study #55: "God's Wisdom: the most Precious Element"

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55th teaching

11.25.2013

 

“God’s Wisdom: the most Precious Element”

 

 

the Literary Victories of 2013

 

 

 

THE CONQUERED

Dune

   by Frank Herbert

Batman: No Man's Land

   by Greg Rucka

Fahrenheit 451

   by Ray Bradbury

Sphere

   by Michael Crichton

A Tale of Two Cities

   by Charles Dickens

the Naked Sun

   by Isaac Asimov
Ico: Castle in the Mist
   by Miyuki Miyabe

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER

Watership Down

   by Richard Adams

the Four Loves

   by C.S. Lewis

 Peter Pan
   by J.M. Barrie

the Measure of a Man
   by Gene Getz
God's Undertaker
   by John Lennox




 

Name that Book #002

 

Challenge!

Guess the titles of the books wherein the following hook sentences appear.

Leave any guesses in a comment below.

 

 

 

 

 

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'"



 

"Call me Ishmael."

 

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”  

 

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”

   -norton

College Study #54: "the Time/Grace Continuum"

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54^th teaching

11.11.2013

 

“God’s Grace, part III: the Time/Grace Continuum”

 

Name that Book #001

 

Challenge!

Guess the titles of the books wherein the following hook sentences appear.

Leave any guesses in a comment below.

"All children, except one, grow up."

"In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---."

"The primroses were over."

"The Mole had been working very hard all morning spring-cleaning his little home."

 

 

 

 

-norton

 

 

 

 



 

College Study #53: "Grace vs. the Law"

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53^rd teaching

11.4.2013

 

“God’s Grace, part II: Grace vs. the Law”

 

 

College Study #52: "God's Grace: the Freeing Gift"

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52nd teaching

10.28.2013

 

“God’s Grace, part I: the Freeing Gift”

 

College Study #51: sermon - "Arming the Adversary"

 

College Study #50: "God's Goodness: a New Outlook from an Old Truth"

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50^th teaching

9.9.2013

 

“God’s Goodness”

a New Outlook from an Old Truth

College Study #49: "God's Forbearance: Living on Borrowed Time"

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49^th teaching

9.2.2013

 

“God’s Forbearance”

Living on Borrowed Time

 

 

College Study #48: "God's Holiness: a Voice from the Past"

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48^th teaching

8.26.2013

 

“God’s Holiness”

a Voice from the Past

 

 

College Study #47: "God's Mercy"

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47^th teaching

8.12.2013

 

“God’s Mercy”

 

 

College Study #46: "God's Justice"

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46^th teaching

8.5.2013

 

 “God’s Justice”

The Great Equalizer

 

 

College Study #45: "God's Wrath: its Satisfaction"

 

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45^th teaching

7.29.2013

 

 “God’s Wrath”

Part II – its Satisfaction

 

College Study #44: "God's Wrath: its Nature"

 

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44^th teaching

7.22.2013

 

 “God’s Wrath”

Part I – its Nature

 

College Study #43: "God's Veracity"

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43^rd teaching

7.8.2013

 

 “God’s Veracity”

 

College Study #42: "God's Moral Perfection"

 

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42^nd teaching

7.1.2013

 

 “God’s Moral Perfection”

 

 

College Study #41: "God's Jealousy"

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41^st teaching

6.24.2013

 

 “God’s Jealousy”

 

College Study #40: "God's Love: Divine Agape"

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40^th teaching

6.10.2013

 

 “God’s Love: Divine Agape”

 

College Study #39: "God's Love: the Five Loves"

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39^th teaching

6.3.2013

 

 “God’s Love: the Five Loves”

 

College Study #38: "God's Love: the Characteristics"

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38^th teaching

5.20.2013

 

 “God’s Love: the Characteristics”

 

Summary of God's Metaphyiscal Attributes

 

Pure Actuality
perfect existence, pure IS-ness
Exodus 3:14, Revelation 1:8
Aseity
needing nothing but sustaining all others
Isaiah 40:12-26, Acts 17:24-25
Unity
one God of one essence
Deuteronomy 6:4, John 10:30
Triunity
one essence, three Persons
Genesis 1:26, Matthew 3:13-17
Omnipotence
all power to do what is possible to do
Jeremiah 32:17, Revelation 19:6
Omnipresence
everywhere present
Psalm 139:7-12, John 3:13
Omniscience
unlimited knowledge
Psalm 147:5, Hebrews 4:13
Impassibility
God has no mood swings
Job 35:6-8, I Corinthians 13:4-8
Immateriality
God is invisible spirit
Deuteronomy 4:15-18, John 4:24
Partial Incomprehensibility
God is too big for your brain
Isaiah 55:8-9, Romans 11:33
Impeccability
God cannot sin, even if He wanted to
Psalm 5:4, I Peter 2:22
Immortality
unending Life within Himself
II Kings 19:16, I Tim 6:16
Immutability
perfection cannot change, better or worse
Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8
Infinity
without limit, within reason
Psalm 145:3, Revelation 10:6
Light
radiant glory, a Being similar to light
Genesis 1:3, I John 1:5
Eternality
every-when present, existing beyond time
Psalm 90, John 8:58
Simplicity
having no parts, material or essential
Isaiah 45:18, Mark 12:29
Necessity
if God exists, then He must exist
Genesis 1:1, Colossians 1:16