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Andy Naselli
Jun 20th, 2009

Mostly Dead vs. All Dead

This two-minute clip from The Princess Bride is my favorite light-hearted illustration of the Arminian view of human depravity (an issue integrally related to prevenient grace):

This is the notable part of the exchange:

“Well it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. . . . Now mostly dead is slightly alive. All dead—well, with all dead, there’s only usually one thing that you can do.”

“What’s that?”

“Go through his clothes and look for loose change.”

Recommended resources:

  1. William W. Combs, “Does the Bible Teach Prevenient Grace?” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 10 (2005): 3–18.
  2. John Piper, “Total Depravity,” in “TULIP” (a nine-part seminar available in audio and video), 2008.
  3. Thomas R. Schreiner, “Does Scripture Teach Prevenient Grace in the Wesleyan Sense?” in Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace (ed. Thomas R. Schreiner and Bruce A. Ware; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 229–46.
Andy Naselli
Jun 17th, 2009

The Youngest Young Fundamentalists

a guest post by Jenni Naselli

1. John Piper and Bethlehem Baptist Church have Children Desiring God.

2. The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International national conference this week has “When I grow up, I want to be a fundamentalist.”

Andy Naselli
Feb 20th, 2009

Meatatarian Prooftext

Proverbs 15:17

  • NET: Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
  • NASB: Better is a dish of vegetables where love is Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
  • ESV: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
  • NIV: Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
  • TNIV: Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
  • NLT: A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.
Andy Naselli
Nov 10th, 2007

Excuses for “Book Plunder”

The latest post on “Addenda & Errata” (a blog by IVP editors) is hilarious: “Top Ten Things to Say on Returning Home with Conference Book Plunder.” (I already shared the article with my wife, so I won’t be able to use any of these excuses—except for #3—after returning home from ETS and SBL in San Diego!)