Origen
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Did Michael Heiser Invent the Deuteronomy 32 Worldview? What the Church Fathers Actually Said
Did Michael Heiser invent the Deuteronomy 32 worldview? Early Christians were already connecting Deuteronomy 32 with angels, Babel, supernatural rulers,… Read More
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Accepting the Providence of God: Calvin, the Early Church, and the Freedom to Say, “Your Will Be Done”
What does it mean to accept God’s providence without making God the author of evil? Scripture, Calvin, and the pre-Augustinian… Read More
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If the Stars Don’t Determine You, Does God? Romans 9 and Free Will
Romans 9 and Ephesians 1 are often treated as proof that God determines each person’s eternal destiny before birth. Read… Read More
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Your Birth Chart Is Not Your Destiny: Eusebius on Astrology and Free Will
Ancient Christians did not reject astrology because they thought the heavens were meaningless. Eusebius, Bardaisan, and Origen argued instead that… Read More
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Can Christians Accept Evolution? What Eusebius Can Tell Us
Christians were arguing against naturalistic accounts of origins long before Darwin. Eusebius preserved Christian attacks on eternal matter, atomism, chance,… Read More