This Atheist should do a Little More Study
BY Herschel Smith
18 years, 6 months ago
Atheist Richard Cohen in his most recent commentary waxes on about things of which he has no understanding (hat tip to Right Wing News). Our friend at Right Wing News (John Hawkins) takes Mr. Cohen to task, but using a view different from the Calvinian understanding of God’s sovereignty that came from the reformation (or in the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, God ordains “whatsoever comes to pass”). Mr. Cohen’s theodicy has been posed and solved a hundred thousand times. Cohen’s problem is psychological, not logical. While we cannot reprint huge portions of Hodge, Dabney, and other systematic theologians to responsd to Cohen, we can point our readers to several good, contemporary papers on this issue. Paul Helm has a great paper entitled “Openness Theology: A Response to Gregory Boyd,” which can be found here. See Gordon H. Clark on the Sovereignty of God here. Also see Clark on Determinism and Responsibility here (although there is a typo in the title line).
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