Dan Chapa

The only one's that beat us were the Patriots, Eagles and Skins. No true blue fan is happy to loose to the Eagles and Skins, but all in all it's been a great regular season. The highlights of the year for me have been Romo's performance, Owen's attitude, Witten & Barber's progress from good to great this year and the pass rush of Ware, Ellis and Rattliff . As for a single favorite play, that's a tough one, but give Nick Folk's kick to bet the Bills a slight edge over Romo to Witten to bet the Lions. The downside has been the way we finished out the year. We always seem to have trouble in December. But we should get key guys back in time for the playoffs. Having Newman at Cornerback is key, and Watkins (although not a starter or hard hitter) is one of our best cover safties . We also need our center, Gurode (not that Proctor's done that bad). But the big plus will be in the wide receiver area. If we can get both Owens and Glenn in the g...

Here is th list of the Cowboys' 2008 opponents: Home: New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals Away: New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Arizona Cardinals, St. Louis Rams, Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers Don't forget we get two #1 picks this year!

Turretinfan and I have worked out a resolution and process for the debate. Here's the resolution: Romans 9-11 teaches unconditional individual election to salvation. Turretinfan will be affirmative and I will be negative. Further, we have worked out some of the rules. Here's what we have: 1AC - 2k words Neg C-X of Aff (three simple questions (i.e. not multipart or highly argumentative) - answers limited to 500 words) 1NC - 2k words Aff C-X of Neg (same as Neg C-X) 1st Neg Rebuttal (2k words) 1st Aff Rebuttal (2k words) Audience Questions (person to whom question is directed gets 500 words, other side gets 150 word followup) Neg Conclusion - 1k words Aff Conclusion - 1k words That's the visible part. Before the debate gets started we are going to do a few things. 1) I am going to update the paper I put out on Romans 9 The original, which started this whole debate, is here: http://www.geocities.com/freewilltheology/romans9.html 2) Turr...

Here’s a link to Artwork on the Remonstrants. The wording is in Dutch, which I don’t read, but the picks are high quality. http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/remonstrantseprenten Enjoy!!!

I wanted to recap a specific aspect of a debate that took place recently. The debate spans multiple entries on multiple blogs and it went in many directions. So it might be confusing to follow in it's original locations. But I didn't want this point to be lost. So I collected the key points here. The point I wanted to highlight is that: the concepts of libertarian freewill (LFW) and total depravity are compatible LFW is required for moral accountability. God would not justly command the impossible Grace is not forced. In this post I plan on linking to the original discussion, giving the flow of the debate, providing the actual debate, providing some post debate thoughts which expand on the subject by talking about the difference between the law and the Gospel and finally providing a quote from Arminius on the subject. Original Posts Here's the lists of entries of original debate. JC an Arminian: http://arminianperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/11/prevenient-grace-and-libert...

Of course, Christ's birth is the reason for Christmas. Man fell, God loved us anyway and sent His dear Son into the world to redeem us. But actually, that's not the upcoming holiday I had in mind. Consider this passage from Colossians 1: 14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him,...

After reading this post on the ESV: http://arminiantoday.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-i-prefer-english-standard-version.html I gave translations some thought. I like litteral translations as well. NASB, NRSV, ESV and NET are all high quality, modern, scholorly translations. But I prefer the KJV. The reason I like the KJV is that it's based on the Textus Receptus. Having read The Revision Revised by John Burgon & The Identity of the New Testament Text by Wilbur Pickering, I find their arguments in favor of the Byzantine texts quite convincing. Modern translations like ESV give a lot of weight to Alexandrian texts. But the KJV is based on the Byzantine, so that's why I prefer it. The issue in a nutshell between Byzantine and Alexandrian texts is one of majority vs. age. The two oldest bibles in the world are the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. They are from roughly 400 AD. These two have quite a few differences (appox 3,000) but they do have a lot of similariaties as well. ...