I don't intend for this thread to turn into a heated debate, I just want to see PB members' views. If your view is not represented in the poll options, please say so and perhaps it can be added. I want to know what views exist and which are the predominant ones.

So, if you want to state and explain your view, please do. But let's not have debate or argumentation on this thread (if moderators deem this request inappropriate, please strike it from my post; also, I defer to the wisdom of the moderators to determine what is and what is not debate).

Thanks!

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Casey Bessette
Westminster OPC • West Suburbs of Chicago • My Blog: Paradise Regained

"It is part of the calling of the ekklesia to learn to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge and also to make known within the world of science 'the manifold wisdom of God' in order that the final end of theology, as of all things, may be that the name of the Lord is glorified. Theology and dogmatics, too, exist for the Lord's sake." — Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 46