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Old 10-12-2008, 09:54 PM
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amazon review

I noticed your view on amazon.com. Did you mean to say that I responded to your question about internalism by saying "I don't think"?

I wish you would have held off until we had discussed more here, it would have made your review more accurate. But I also thank you for taking the time to review the book. As I've said I appreciate your questions.

Here are some issues I have with your review. I believe I only appeal to scripture in discussing thinkers that do so, for instance when I look at Plantinga's view of the Fall I then consider Genesis 3. But I don't appeal independently to scripture, or apart from a side reference to note that what I'm saying is also in scripture. My point about Eve was that she believed the serpent, which was a cognitive act, not just a failure to trust. But she was inexcusable for believing this because she believed a contradiction.

I focus on knowledge of God as opposed to salvation because we need to be saved due to our failure to seek, understand, and do what is right. So I'm setting up the explanation for what salvation is. What did we fail to understand? I believe the scriptures you quoted in the review would all presuppose this definition of sin, which is itself from scripture.

But my goal for discussion here is not that you'll like my book, but to clear up what is being said and encourage Christians to show the inexcusability of unbelief.