PhD Student @MBTS - Researching Scholasticism & John Gill - https://teapawt.net/t.co/C1ufRi3dHE - opinions are my own
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Honored to contribute an article to the latest issue of @Themelios_TGC. “Baptist Catholicity in the Ecclesiology of John Gill.”
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Somewhere along the way we went from “safe, legal, and rare” to a celebratory “Abortion is back, baby!” You can’t convince me this isn’t a religion.
The Baptist Faith and Message is decades older than the denominations of those folks telling Baptists that they lack the polity to be confessional. Why are those denominations so young? Because their parent denominations were unable to maintain confessional fidelity.
But new converts to these denominations, as well as some of their more pugnacious old heads, forget that the Baptists they’re throwing stones at found key successes in the midst of 20th/century challenges re: orthodoxy where their own tradition’s institutions failed.
From Ben Affleck, of all people! This is the exactly right, and communicated very clearly.
It’s distressing that folks like @AnthropicAI know these facts, and still say AI is or can be conscious. Either they are dishonest or have a radically deficient view of consciousness.
Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling
“Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word."
"That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person."
"But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”
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Thanks, @LondonLyceum! Glad to contribute a great topic!
Continuing our Baptist Sacramentalism series, here is a great piece from Andrew Cole on viewing the present union with Christ in the Supper.
thelondonlyceum.com/present-…
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It is clear that there is a growing divide within biblical counseling. As @jared_poulton shows in his new book some are moving deeper into a fundamentalist, biblicist, militant posture that finds it roots in Jay Adams. Others are pursuing a historic Reformed approach. These are not merely differences in counseling methods, but competing instincts about authority, tradition, the use of common grace, and how theological disagreements should be handled.
The divide is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. It also explains much of today's polemics and why the two sides so often seem to be talking past one another.
Order your copy of Jared's new book at @HanoverPressLL hanoverpress.com/product/van…
Finally in English. Such good news.
The start of something big....
Volume 1 of Girolamo Zanchi's massive and magnificent *Five Books on the Nature of God, or on the Divine Attributes* is now available for pre-order directly from MRP. Copies ship on July 20. Order now and save!
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Or, LLMs, partly developed through University research, stole content often produced at universities to give back to students in a manner devoid of wisdom, beauty, or moral guidance but in a mode very able to atrophy the brain. (But yes, $300k is high)
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Here’s a new response to my dyothelite objection to EFS/ERAS. It uses Leftow’s Latin trinitarianism model to say ERAS does not require multiple wills…
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If we allow the New Covenant to (re)define the "promised land" of Gen 17, then we must also allow it to (re)define the "offspring" of Gen 17 (Gal 3:7, 29).
land of Canaan
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heaven
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Abraham's earthly offspring
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Abraham's spiritual offspring
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Because it is better to give than to receive honor (see Jesus, Aristotle), God, the supremely honorable one, will forever outdo us in giving honor. Every return of honor we make to God, will be outdone by further divine benefactions, including the benefits of showing God honor.
Dr. Mathison is exactly right. The very sources we are trying to retrieve almost universally affirm that theology is a habit, formed slowly and prayerfully over time, and not the mechanistic result of access to texts.
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Re: gatekeeping - Dr. Mathison's tweet is nothing compared to the institutional gatekeeping faced and perpetuated by folks we're trying to retrieve.
Much to my own shame, I started a Substack blog. I've called it "Quaestio." I will be publishing experimental exercises in the Scholastic Method of theology, both for my own edification and to illustrate the continued value of scholastic theology. quaestioblog.substack.com/p/…
As I prepared to launch this pet project, events in the retrieval space caused me to reflect on timing. Is now the right time to be a Protestant doing scholasticism? Have we not just gotten more conclusive evidence of scholasticism's rotten influence on Protestant theologians?