Determinism, Chance and Freedom: John Frame’s Heresy Dressed as Philosophy
Anti-Christ as non-creating speech through Frame (at RTS Orlando) once more sets up the pretense of having the free will to have studied the question whether or not he (and by extension ‘we’ (not in his mind as real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ with the mind of Christ, but all men possessed of supposed independent minds from Christ ‘rationalizing’ as they may)) has the ability at all to study questions; whether or not he has the freedom of will to investigate if he has freedom of will and whether with that will can we ‘do’ things with God’s supposed ‘holy info’ and in the environment in which we find ourselves. Such as obey.
Turns out? According to anti-Christ..
Drumroll….
Yes! ‘We’ do have freedom of will and agency and can therefore learn. So we can listen to an endless flow of non-creating speech, treat God’s Word as if He were not His Word and therefore have “soft determinism”. Read the whole thing. Determinism, Chance and Freedom. A excerpt from the end:
These considerations lead to the conclusion that the Bible teaches theistic determinism, one that is “soft” in James’s sense. Scripture renounces chance in the first and third senses above, but not in the second. And it teaches that human beings sometimes have moral freedom, usually have compatibilist freedom, never have libertarian freedom. Scripture may imply that we have freedom from natural causation as well. Certainly it doesn’t deny that, but I don’t know of any passage that clearly affirms it.
Wow. That should knock over any drug crazed Muslim driving toward the checkpoint, what with Scripture renouncing and implying. At least make him or her sweat profusely. In the end, a Muslim on a murderous rampage is more certain of his own lie than Frame is of his. But according to Frame, Frame’s ‘gospel’ is going to save the world. No kidding. God supposedly wins in the end because He ‘offers’ His gospel to all.
How about this?
Opponents of libertarianism, however, reply that (1) Human intuition reveals that we choose among various alternatives, but it never reveals to us that any of our choices are absolutely uncaused. Intuition cannot prove a universal negative.
No new creation. No Jesus Christ as Word of God. Just ‘theistic determination’ that is supposedly ’soft’ and ‘human intuition …..
never reveals to us that any of our choices are absolutely uncaused.’
Frame, as with all the professors at RTS Orlando, very plainly is deceived that he must say men have free agency so that they can accept the ‘offer’ of the gospel.
But there is no gospel offer. God is His Word. He does not ‘use language’ as a neutral medium. God Spoke and we were born again as real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ.
But that doesn’t ‘work’ for Frame. No, for Frame, outright new creation is a magic act and just isn’t what words are for. At least not the word he grew up with. He wants another gospel he can control and speak on que. He doesn’t want to wait on God. Frame knows best. After all, he studied the question expressly to tell us and as many seminary students as he can. Because supposedly, he and others like him have a ‘call from God’ to do just that: speak non-creating words and never actually and non-metaphorically birth any new creations in Jesus Christ but have the present creature stay the present creature in perpetuity but have in the eyes of his fellow non-new creatures / vain religionists, ‘made a choice for Jesus’.
Anti-Christ through Frame in philosophy speak says that the ‘God of the Bible’ leaves men rational such that the anti-Christ’s philosophy can be understood in order to not choose it but instead choose God; that from within the mind and non-creating lens of anti-Christ, God is ‘chosen’ in order to get out of the mind of anti-Christ and into the mind of Christ.
Supposedly, God Speaks to the present creature in non-creating / non-interfereing language and ‘offers’ to ‘come in and have a personal relationship with the old creature. The present creature stays the present creature (and is not at all born again by the hearing of God as Word, in express refutation of what God has said as spirit and life: James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. )
Understand that at all costs, Frame and all free willers must say that God ‘offers’ salvation through His gospel. But you don’t see Frame or any other Free willer preaching to those who more obviously, (according to their own false gospel of free will), cannot mentally process the ‘offer’ of God. You do not see them preaching the power of God as God’s power is no ‘offer’ but is simply to create and save, right here, right now as you read.
The infirm, the weak, the comatose, the retarded? They have no place in the kingdom of the Smart, which according to anti-Christ through Frame and all whole free willers, is the kingdom of God.
In the long term, what is the effect, you ask, what difference does it make if one preaches a false gospel that genuinely saves none?
The effect on society as a whole is to harden it toward those they infer by preachers actions and ‘philosophy of gospel’ are incapable of receiving God. If they cannot receive God, then they must be evil. If they cannot process God’s ‘offer’ (and God made them that way), then what good are they other than as a certain amount of emotional opportunity; a plaything?
So the anti-Christ tries to cover up his powerlessness by simply saying all such persons are automatically saved — supposedly they don’t need to Hear God as Word at all. The resentment then of other free willers is magnified toward those helpless tenfold. They are automatically ’saved’ and yet must be taken care of by persons who have to earn their own salvation by, at the least ‘choosing Jesus’, if not by works such as taking care of the helpless.
Supposely in that scenario, one feeds clothes and takes care of all medical expenses of another who is automatically saved in order to be saved oneself.
What is the effect? The Netherlands with their euthanasia / murder of exactly such persons. The Nazi’s with their murder of exactly such persons.
What is the effect? An automatic caste system of society based on the lie of free ‘agency’ which is based on the lie of the non-creating / non-interefering gospel ‘offer’. According to the lie of anti-Christ, God won’t interfere with ‘choice’ so as to keep the ‘free agency’ intact. So God’s gifts of the Spirit are not really gifts of the Spirit but are mere enhancers of the free will of one over another in a particular area.
Thus priestcraft / Nicolatianism and divine right of …janitors. Supposedly God gives gifts as permanent “units of power” to certain individuals and it is the “responsibility” of that individual to go forth and ‘do’ with the gift as best he or she can. Thus one is divinely assigned a station in life and to get out of that station is to transgress against God.
Persons deceived in that lie always end up with a top heavy government as tyranny on exactly that basis and wonder how they arrived there from where they started. It was their hope that all men were equal. Democracy. But in the end, their own lie of how the uiverse works overthrew even the pretense of temporal freedom.
Frame and Company (and it is a very large company) have many to turn to and ask if they all see the same thing. And the anti-Christ tells them that they do; that they have all ‘figured out’ with their own mind not-Christ as the present creature that it is all up to them and that anything God gives them is to only enhance the power of their supposed free agency.
In the end, such liars end up as Stalinists Russia, Nazi Germany and the present Netherlands as well as the present abortion genocide in the United States. And to the last of them they always say “How did that happen?” and (the favorite of the anti-Christ) “Those people up at the denominational headquarters and on the commitees are the liberals. We’re against that. You know, we’re all conservatives here.”
2 Peter 2:12-19 But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption, receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you; having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse; having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness; but had reproof of his own wickedness– the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the folly of the prophet. These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever . For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
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But as for you:
2 Peter 1:2-4 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue, through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Corinthians 5:17 So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27