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Tony Byrne

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Tony Byrne

@_TheoMed

Evangelical-Baptist ⸎ 20-Year Research Blogger of Augustinian & Reformed Works on God’s Love, Will, Grace, & the Free Offer ⸎ Freelance Editor 📚 Book Collector

theologicalmeditations.blogspot.com

Joined October 2009

Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Jul 10, 2025
Below are two videos from podcasts that happened yesterday. In the first video, Leighton Flowers (@Soteriology101) and David Allen (@DrDavidLAllen) are discussing Allen’s new book “Liberating Romans from Reformed Captivity.” Toward the end the issue of debates came up, and how
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@HwsEleutheroi
Jul 9, 2025
So I have been on the road since the 4th, and only today grabbed @DrDavidLAllen 's new self-published book, LIBERATING ROMANS FROM REFORMED CAPTIVITY. For those wondering, yes, it starts with the "Two Romans" foolishness, which means it will have zero scholarly impact for the
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Sep 27, 2022
If Jesus died only for the sins of the elect, then 𝒏𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆 can know from scripture 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 that Jesus substituted himself for their sins. The ramifications of this point for the definition of the gospel, assurance, faith, warrant, etc., are quite profound.
Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Jul 2, 2025
Set aside Flowers’s fumbling way of asking the question, and pay attention to what White does with the “world” of John 3.16 and other usages of that term, such as in John 6.33. At second 0.50, White says the “world” is “everyone in the world who will receive life.” Flowers then
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Jan 26, 2024
Replying to @TomBuck
While both are sinful, both are not 𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙, and so 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 sinful. The man-to-man “wedding,” due to the unnatural aspect of its perversity, is 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 sinful, I’d argue. I’d bet that this would be @jaredhmoore’s line of argument as well.
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Dec 30, 2021
Rudy Cerda (@RudyCerda) has posted this clip before, but it’s good to highlight it again. This is a longer version. Here’s Steve Lawson, at ShepCon 2013, citing 2 Cor 5:20, talking about our need to plead 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒈 sinners to come to Christ (not just “present the gospel”).
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Apr 7, 2025
Replying to @Phil_Johnson_ and @DrDavidLAllen
The message “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” assures all the listeners that they are in a 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 state, that there is way by which they may be saved. And if they are 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, that means they are 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, yet how are they
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Jan 28, 2025
This would make for a small but interesting book topic. 😄
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Oct 22, 2021
Replying to @merelyjwright and @T4Gorg
Long forgotten & never discussed again, ever, are these words by Mohler at ShepCon in 2019. There were no words of clarification over T4G's involvement in SJ/CRT issues. They're just ending it next year, as if nothing was/is wrong. It's just coming to a normal & natural end.
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
May 30, 2023
If @LexhamPress can get this work by Amandus Polanus (1561–1610) translated into English, it will be at least as significant as the recent translation of Petrus van Mastricht. I hope it begins to happen within the next few years.
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Jun 6, 2025
This book is coming out in July: heritagebooks.org/products/the-s… Hat tip to @TheProtestantP for bringing this to my attention.
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The Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) and the Canons: Historical Perspectives (Sinnema)
Puritan and Reformed books at discounted prices.
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Jan 19, 2025
𝐀 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 Characteristic of “Provisionists,” on social media, in their book titles, and in debates, is the motte and bailey fallacy. Even though I have also seen it on the side of Calvinists as well on
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Dec 2, 2018
@benshapiro I just finished watching your interview with John MacArthur, Ben. Well done! If you ever get the opportunity to talk with Donald A. Carson, he'd also be excellent, as well as someone in the Francis A. Schaeffer tradition, such as Nancy Pearcey (@NancyRPearcey). 👍
Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Jul 30, 2025
Replying to @BaptistBavinck
Flowers desperately wants Huff’s attention so Flowers can draw attention to himself and his podcast (by luring Huff into a soteriological discussion), given that Huff has recently gained apologetical notoriety/fame since the Rogan podcast. As another put it, he is clout-chasing.
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Tony Byrne
@_TheoMed
Apr 22, 2025
Two new books arrived today.
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