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		<title>From Love to Effective Salvation</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/10/30/from-love-to-effective-salvation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love unites. It is the union of diversity. To be united with the eternal is to be eternal. To have eternal life we must be united with an eternal life-giving God. Does God love all? Yes, God is love. Do all love God? No, many are ignorant of or even hate (the idea of a) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=367&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is The Gospel God’s Plan B?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticalbelief.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although most theologians would be at pains to say that God&#8217;s plan of redemption in Jesus was conceived before the world was made, many people see it as a kind of plan B necessary to save a world which failed at plan A namely obedience to God&#8217;s Law. Is the New Covenant really a breaking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=357&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Righteousness and the Basis for Justification</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/10/21/rethinking-righteousness-and-the-basis-for-justification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an unstated but deep-rooted assumption in most Christian theology that righteousness is exclusively a moral category. That is, a person is perfectly righteous if they are morally perfect and any degrees of righteousness in a person are in a linear and inextricable relationship to the morality of that individual. This righteousness then becomes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=352&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is God&#8217;s Hole-y Bible for?</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/09/23/what-is-gods-hole-y-bible-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticalbelief.com/?p=339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bible is an interesting set of books for many reasons not least of which is the consideration that it&#8217;s one of the oldest works of literature around but it&#8217;s on everyone&#8217;s shelves. How many other 2000+ year-old books do you have in your library? It&#8217;s probably also the only book in most homes which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=339&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Original Sin, Not Really&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/09/18/original-sin-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticalbelief.com/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most Christians hold to the doctrine of Original Sin and, however we dress this up for Sunday, on the street, it translates to &#8220;people are born guilty because of Adam&#8221;. This is a very damaging doctrine because it gives us a picture of God before whom all, even infants, are guilty and under wrath which is difficult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=333&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Second-Class Christians but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/09/11/no-second-class-christians-but/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticalbelief.com/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered if everyone but the Christian Church is damned to hell? The Reformation gave us back something quite valuable by reminding us that the Bible teaches no hierarchy amongst believers. While some are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors or teachers all are called to love and serve each other as brothers, in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=328&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reformed Christian or Transformed Disciple?</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/09/03/reformed-christian-or-transformed-disciple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I read the Bible and the more I read (and learn from) Reformed Theologians, the more I realise I don&#8217;t fit in into the category of a Reformed Christian&#8230;
Reformed Christian
God, you are so Infinitely Holy that you cannot tolerate sin. All are sinners and are utterly unacceptable, Totally Depraved, and displeasing to you, Objects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=326&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am not a Biblical Fundamentalist</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/08/31/why-i-am-not-a-biblical-fundamentalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticalbelief.com/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I go to a church in which the Bible is referred to as &#8220;the Word of God&#8221; and it&#8217;s inerrancy is upheld as the basis (or foundation) of our belief. Here, Christians are basically people who decided to trust the Bible and arguments on Doctrine or Practice can be solved by consulting and quoting of Scripture.
Many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=320&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Josh Heads North</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/08/29/josh-heads-north-chapter-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things were getting hectic and Josh had made up his mind to get out of town for the weekend. “I’ll take a short break from the tour”, he thought, “the boys will be fine”. He decided to head back home to the hill country where the sky was big and the air was clear.
As he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=312&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sons of God: Formality or Reality</title>
		<link>http://criticalbelief.com/2009/08/26/sons-of-god-formality-or-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following question has been crystallising in my mind of late: is righteousness a status God bestows or a property he acknowledges? This, it seems to me, is the issue which divides protestant / catholic belief. Protestants, particularly Reformed Evangelicals hold: not our righteousness is counted but Christ&#8217;s (see John Piper, Counted Righteous in Christ) because God justifies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalbelief.com&blog=1224119&post=302&subd=cawoodm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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