Conley's Blog

It seems Mr. Preston has conceded defeat to our written debate. When given ample time to respond to my article, the most he has done is tell Joel Sexton, an ex-full preterist friend of mine (who is also waiting on a response to Don on an article he's written about the ramifications and implications of full preterism in regards to justification) that he basically will not be responding to the written debate. One should note that Preston was the one who challenged me to this written debate and I accepted under the supposition that Preston would attempt to refute me point by point as I did so in my article. As of yet, his only response has been to label me a Calvinist in his 3rd installment of "The Fullness of the Gentiles post #3 where he says: Note: Lance Conley- who is not IO – did write a lengthy article attempting to answer, but his entire article can be summed up like this: Preston is wrong because he rejects the Calvinistic view of “election. Preston is wrong because he...

In theology, total determinism or divine determinism means that everything (macro and micro) is happening as it is and that it could not and would not have happened any other way.  "A" always and only ever leads to "B", which always and only ever leads to "C", which leads all the way to "Z". The world is composed of As, B's & C's that couldn't follow any path other than the one that they are following because they are A's, B's, and C's. In total determinism, ALL the parameters are known. When it comes to this involving God and applying it to God, I have to ask how applying this theology to God could be an absolute problem because the truth is that divine determinism is nothing more than another name for fatalism.  For Calvinist for example, how does their view not make God the author of sin if God determines EVERYTHING from macro to micro? Does God determine you to sin (hamartia in Greek which...