The Fatherhood of God, OR "J. I. Packer on the 6 Things You Should Tell Yourself Every Day"

 

J. I. Packer on the 6 Things You Should Tell Yourself Every Day

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/j-packer-6-things-tell-every-day/

 

See also chapter 19 of Packer's Knowing God which is already cued up in this link below:

https://youtu.be/mSkoKFOJg_o?t=24575

 

Below is a related non-Christian article from Psychology Today on the detrimental effects of lacking human fathers. Having God as one's heavenly Father can help offset the ill effects of earthly fatherlessness in this life, and ultimately solves the problem in a higher sense but which goes into full effect only in the afterlife.

 Father Absence, Father Deficit, Father Hunger
The vital importance of paternal presence in children’s lives.

 

 

 

 

 

Some Older Protestant Responses to Catholicism That I Recently Read

 

The following responses to Catholicism are older and therefore less relevant and less sophisticated than modern Protestant responses. Nevertheless, they are interesting as historical glimpses as to what Protestants and Catholics believed about each other back then and the polemics used back then. I recently read them and found them profitable and encouraging. They help confirm my Protestant convictions that Catholicism is false and an incoherent ahistorical system.

 They are all freely available online:

Joseph Hall's No Peace with Rome: Wherein Is Proved, That, As Terms Now Stand, There Can Be No Reconcilation of the Reformed Religion with the Romish : And That the Romanists Are in All the Fault 


George Bull's A Vindication of the Church of England, From the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome [starting at page 137]

George Bull's The Corruptions of the Church of Rome, in Relation to Ecclesiastical Government, the Rule of Faith, and Form of Divine Worship; in Answer to the Bishop of Meaux's Queries [starting at page 235]


John Jewel's An Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel

translated by Anne Lady Bacon
https://archive.org/details/a588502700jeweuoft

translated by William Withers Ewbank
https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_apology_of_the_Church_of_England_tr_b/onQEAAAAQAAJ?hl

translated by William Withers Ewbank
https://archive.org/details/anapologyofchurc00jeweuoft/mode/2up

 

 

Trent Horn's Straw-Man Misrepresentation of Protestantism

 

The following video also has relevance with regard to the criticism that some Christians have made regarding John Piper's views on final justification. I tend to side with Piper in the controversy. The video highlights some of the facts I would cite as reasons for why I side with Piper rather than his critics.

 

Trent Horn's Straw-Man Misrepresentation of Protestantism 

https://youtu.be/jNsKYXE8D7I