Following some interesting chatter on the way home from SFU on Thursday, I figured that I should post the following here and see if you have any response. (That said, I'm not sure if anyone actually listens to these things other than me - anyone else actually listen to recorded lectures?)
First off, a while back I had mentioned a set of church history lectures that I had found online. A week or so ago I finally finished listening to the last of the 17 talks that they had on there. A comment made in the second last lecture, covering the Arminianism and the events around the Synod of Dordt, seemed rather interesting. Basically, he said something along on the lines of: when preaching about human responsibility people may say I sound like an Arminian, but when preaching about perseverence of the saints I sound like a Calvinist. Seems on the surface a little contradictory, but on the other hand I'm not totally sure that that's always such a bad thing. At times I wonder just how much of the whole debate on this topic is simply a reflection of the human inability to grasp the concept of existance without time.
Secondly, another thing that I wanted to post is a recording of a sermon delivered by a Reformed Baptist minister. Basically, this sermon is an examination of (and his eventual rejection of) arguments for infant baptism. I wasn't so sure that I agreed with everything that he mentioned (somethings that he said about Lydia I didn't fully agree with. I think that there was also one other area where I was in disagreement, but I can't recall offhand what that was).
To finish off this list of links, I figured that I would also link to something that I found regarding the relationship between the Church and history. I thought that it was an interesting read at least.
