This is an argument raised by unjust people against the Christian faith. They blaspheme us even more by suggesting that because we believe that God’s truthfulness abounds in the falsehood of men and that his justice is confirmed by our unrighteousness, we also believe that we should do evil so that good may come of it and that we should tell lies so that God’s truthfulness will shine out even more clearly because of it. But in claiming that this is what we think they are blaspheming us, as if these things were somehow the logical conclusion of our beliefs. But in fact, the logic of our beliefs does not accept this line of reasoning, because we understand that God is a just and true judge.
Origen
Commentary on Romans
- An interesting contrast: Time Magazine on The New Calvinism in 2009 as one of their Ten Ideas Changing the world, next to Time Magazine on Calvinism’s revival back in 1947.
- Reviewer Trevin Wax has an interesting post on Kim’s Christ and Caesar, and whether the Apostles intended to subvert the Roman empire.
- Professor Michael J. New offers a response to William Saletan’s proposed abortion compromise in his essay Dividing the Child, featured at Public Discourse.
- Many writers continue to find inspiration in Matthew Lee Anderson’s piece as they write about the post-Evangelical world – Marty Thelma is among the most recent.
- Being unwilling to read the classics yourself means that you can easily be led astray by famous people who repeat nonsense. Whether George Steiner of the New Yorker is an example of this is up for debate.
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