Thank you to all of you for following me, some of you for many years. From now on, I will also be blogging at https://apostles-vs-calvinism.org/. The new blog will primarily be focused on issues related to my new book (not yet released), Rebuilding the Foundations.
I have written on those subjects on this blog in the past and often. I feel like God has helped me understand the militant resistance I have faced over the years as I have simply recited exactly what the Bible says about the judgment and works.
Evangelicals resist the plain teaching of the Bible on the judgment and works because they have been infected with the idea that our loving God is actually a cruel and wicked God who would torment a human eternally for even one sin. This is a treasured Calvinist [false] teaching. The information age is making that outrageous teaching look so ridiculous that its supporters are abandoning it like the capsized ship it is. Nonetheless, its effects remain in false ideas about the purpose of the atonement and the way Christians should live their lives.
My hope is to reach even more people because of the blog name. I will even be using SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to make the search engines want to carry the new blog. If you subscribe to the new blog, you will not receive more emails than you already do. I am one person, and I will continue writing about as many blogs as I always have. They will just be spread over the two sites, with this site still focusing somewhat on church history and historical Christianity, but covering all my typical random subjects as well.
There are a lot of opinions and rumors about Constantine, the Council of Nicea, and the events of the fourth century that changed Christianity to Christendom. Not only will you get the incredible story, with all its twists, plots, and intrigues, but you will find out how history is done and never wonder what is true again.
The Rest of the Old, Old Story 
Will you be enabling a comment section on the new blog? I know you post links on Facebook, but I generally don’t like engaging on there as it seems more exposed (i.e. I don’t want random FB friends reading my raw musings and wreslings with soteriology).
Please pray for me at tghe moment. These days I feel I am more diligent about my faith than before, but also struggle with doubt and condemnation more acutely at the same time. I think the thought that God might be against me because gee hasn’t appeared to have zapped me with supernatural love and power yet is quite an annoying one.
Thanks
Jon
I am under the impression that it is possible to comment on the new blog. Let me go check now … Yep. Looks like you can. I don’t have any comments there yet, though.
It says you have to be a member to post. Does that mean be a subscriber?
Hi Jon. I updated the settings, but they were already set to not requiring membership. If you still can’t comment, let me know, and I will contact customer service. Membership does mean subscribed, but I don’t want people to have to subscribe to comment!
I still don’t think it enables me to comment. No worries though.
I’ve been really busy. I will contact support at the other blog.
Thanks for starting this blog, Paul. I look forward to (and will be praying for!) how the Lord will use it to serve His people, as I’ve been greatly served by what you’ve written on this topic here and in other places. Keep on keeping on, brother. God is using your sowing, bless His glorious name.
Through some conversations I’ve been having with a brother about this tradition stuff I’m wrestling with, he encouraged me to revive my blog and post there the thoughts I’ve been sharing with him. I found it peculiar that in God’s providence I ended up just Saturday morning deciding to create a new blog altogether and only a couple of hours later saw this post about a blog you were creating along the same lines! https://testingtradition.blogspot.com/
Though I didn’t see your new blog until after I had created mine, my blog description is eerily similar to the description on your main page (though your words are much stronger than mine, which isn’t surprising since you’ve been thinking about this stuff much longer than I have been).
I tried to leave a comment on one of your posts but it said “You must be a member to post a comment.” How do I become a member? I subscribed but that clearly didn’t do the trick because I still couldn’t comment after subscribing.
In any case, the comment was that I thought Stuart Townend and Keith Getty are the writers of “In Christ Alone” (which you reference in that post as written by Allen Asbury)? For example: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hymn-wrath-of-god-_n_3775498
Also, I don’t know if your RSS feed is working properly on the new blog because I’m not able to add it to my blog list on my blog the way I can with this site “Ancient Faith”.
Hi Chris. Thank you for correcting me on the author. I was just looking up the lyrics. i don’t know where I got Allen Asbury, LOL. I checked again, and Keith Getty is the writer. Where did you find Stuart Townend’s name? I did not see it in the article you linked. It was interesting to find out that many people, even evangelicals, questioned the same phrase I did.
I will check out your blog, and I will check on why the RSS aren’t working and how to set my comments to public. My new webhost is in the UK, so there may be some different rules. I’ll get back to you quick as I can because that will affect everyone. Thanks for telling me, and good to hear from you!
I had the blog comments turned off. I turned them back on. I had no problem subscribing to the blog as is, though. You should be able to comment now.
Followed. It’s a great article and I look forward to more.
One of the issues I have with the PSA theory is that God doesn’t really forgive anything. It’s an illusion.
My sin debt and every other sin debt is punished to the full extent. God doesn’t forgive it, he demands payment in full. And he gets that full payment. Jesus pays the bill, so to speak. But the bill isn’t cancelled, it’s not forgiven. It’s paid in full. Every last penny that’s demanded is paid back, although by another. There is no mercy there. There’s no compassion. There’s no love.
Let’s say I owe one million dollars to someone. I can’t pay it. If the person I owe the debt to forgives the debt, he’s out the money. He doesn’t get a thing, because he forgave the debt. He gets nothing in return. But if you pay it for me, the debt isn’t forgiven. It’s just paid. He’s not out anything.
How can God be upheld as a compassionate, merciful being when he won’t forgive a debt? When he demands that every debt owed to him be paid and he doesn’t care who pays it?
Excellent point, Jim, which I have already heard from you. Thanks for adding it to this post.
Just read the intro to your new book. I’m stunned and amazed, in a good way. Looking forward to reading the whole thing!
Thank you, Jim. I am going to have to do some revamping because I wrote a whole chapter on the judgment, but now I have moved it to chapter 1. I realized how many people still think there is no way a human can pass a judgment by works.