Comments on: Alastair Represents Wright; Ascol Calls for Truth http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/alastair-represents-wright ...dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:41:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mtwood http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/alastair-represents-wright/comment-page-1#comment-7499 mtwood Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:15:40 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/alastair-represents-wright#comment-7499 Jason: You can find Piper's comments here with a link to the whole article: http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/new_perspective.html Jason:

You can find Piper’s comments here with a link to the whole article:

http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/new_perspective.html

]]> By: Jason S. Kong http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/alastair-represents-wright/comment-page-1#comment-7438 Jason S. Kong Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:19:23 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/alastair-represents-wright#comment-7438 By the way, where did John Piper make this intention? Is it the sermon he gave on justification just recently? That's the closest thing I could locate on his ministry's webpage. By the way, where did John Piper make this intention? Is it the sermon he gave on justification just recently? That’s the closest thing I could locate on his ministry’s webpage.

]]> By: coderforchrist http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/alastair-represents-wright/comment-page-1#comment-7433 coderforchrist Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:15:04 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/alastair-represents-wright#comment-7433 I just watched the recording Tom Ascol linked to, and Mr. Welch's comments in his letter are totally off base. Only one of the opponents of the resolution, that I remember, stated that he drank alcohol at all. And the very first opponent gave a rather moving testimony of his father's suffering and demise due to alcoholism. Of course, as I've seen personally, the assumption many seem to have is that, if you don't oppose alcohol, you're probably a drinker yourself, and you're justifying your drinking. One of my friends has stated that he tries to avoid discussing the issue at all, because if you try to reason with someone that alcohol is not inherently evil, they will usually just "turn off." In fact, I was actually told by a Sunday School teacher that the problem was I was reading Scripture too "intellectually" rather than "with my heart." I also appreciated the point made by the first opponent about gluttony being a sin. Oddly, while obesity is being called an epidemic in our society, and is also killing people, I have yet to hear anyone who preaches against alcohol preach against overeating! I just watched the recording Tom Ascol linked to, and Mr. Welch’s comments in his letter are totally off base. Only one of the opponents of the resolution, that I remember, stated that he drank alcohol at all. And the very first opponent gave a rather moving testimony of his father’s suffering and demise due to alcoholism.

Of course, as I’ve seen personally, the assumption many seem to have is that, if you don’t oppose alcohol, you’re probably a drinker yourself, and you’re justifying your drinking.

One of my friends has stated that he tries to avoid discussing the issue at all, because if you try to reason with someone that alcohol is not inherently evil, they will usually just “turn off.” In fact, I was actually told by a Sunday School teacher that the problem was I was reading Scripture too “intellectually” rather than “with my heart.”

I also appreciated the point made by the first opponent about gluttony being a sin. Oddly, while obesity is being called an epidemic in our society, and is also killing people, I have yet to hear anyone who preaches against alcohol preach against overeating!

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