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Chapter 10
beings are fallen in sin and demonstrate an active resistance to accepting God’s message
10.5 Arguments Not Effective: Overcoming Sinful Resistance
Plantinga says: “In this context, that fact is of great importance: without some rd, we wouldn’t believe.” The noetic effect of sin can only be overcome by God’s points to faith as a special gift “that requires supernatural and extraordinary activity on the part of God.”
Mascord uses John’s gospel for making his point 25), and 2) Jesus’
Paul insists that “no one can say ‘ ’ ”
Plantinga’s extended A/C model
WCB, 269; the fact is the fact that ‘we are sunk in sin”; Plantinga refers to 1 Cor 1:23, 2:14. WCB
WCB
Plantinga, ‘Replies to my Commentators,’ 240, 246.
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