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		<title>Divine Comedy, Inferno: Cantos 23-25, Circle 8, Ditches 6-7 – Hypocrites, Thieves, and Other Snakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canto 23 Dante and Virgil proceed along their course but are soon pursued by the demons that were tricked into falling into the 5th ditch. Virgil holds Dante to himself like a mother holds a child, and slides down into the 6th ditch. The demons follow up to the rim, but are not allowed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2442&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Comedy, Inferno: Cantos 20-22, Circle 8, Ditches 4-5 – Diviners, Grafters , and Demons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dante]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canto 20 “Now I must sing of new griefs . . .” Dante and Virgil now cross over the 4th ditch which contains the fortune tellers and diviners of the future. They walk backwards for all eternity with their heads twisted around to their back. Because  they spent their life trying to look forward into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2439&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Christian Orthodoxy a Logical Deduction?</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2012/01/03/is-christian-orthodoxy-a-logical-deduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Orthodoxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Geisler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  A Parsimonious  Orthodoxy? Norman Geisler&#8217;s online debates with various parties have become widespread, and much has been said about &#8220;the orthodox Christian faith&#8221; regarding them.  The term &#8220;orthodox&#8221; has been thrown around so much, it seems it is simply being taken for granted that everyone agrees on what it means. Given the tenor of many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2193&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conformation, Transformation, Legalism, Gnosticism, Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2012/01/01/worldly-conformation-godly-transformation-and-practical-gnosticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life and Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[christian morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtue ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2357&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Comedy, Inferno: Canto 19, Circle 8, Ditch 3 – Black Hole Stone</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2011/11/29/canto-29-black-hole-stone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canto 19 Simon the Magician (“Simon Magus”) was the person in Acts who tried to purchase the gifting of the Holy Spirit for gain (Acts 8:9-24). Since then, persons who try to buy/sell ecclesiastical favors/positions are known as simoniacs. In ditch three, the simoniacs are placed upside down in holes which Dante says are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2206&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Christianity Need the Bible?</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2011/11/18/does-christianity-need-the-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Biblical Apologetics Atheistic attacks on Christianity typically focus on philosophical issues concerning theism, or evidential attacks on the Bible. It occurred to me the other day that the latter plays upon a certain view of Christian theological methodology and ecclesiology that is flawed. The issue, as I see it, is that these attacks are relying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2180&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was Aquinas Reformed?</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2011/10/21/was-aquinas-reformed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction R. C. Sproul begins a short article on faith and regeneration with these words: One of the most dramatic moments in my life for the shaping of my theology took place in a seminary classroom. One of my professors went to the blackboard and wrote these words in bold letters: &#8220;Regeneration Precedes Faith.&#8221; After [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2163&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Farts to Faith: Interesting, Surprising, and Amazing Quotes from Martin Luther</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2011/10/19/from-farts-to-faith-interesting-surprizing-and-amazing-quotes-from-martin-luther/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction I have been reading a bit about Martin Luther in preparation for dissertation work and I did not realize what a brawler this guy was! All I remembered from classes and movies was this pious guy crying because &#8220;there he stood and could do no other.&#8221; I knew he cussed and drank etc., and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2142&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Shepherds We Shall Be</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2011/10/10/and-shepherds-we-shall-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life and Living]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most amazing women I have ever been honored to know died in a car accident Saturday night along with her unborn child, Sophy. These are just some thoughts about her &#8211; none can match the reality. When I first met Kortney [Blythe] Gordon I thought she was one of the strangest people I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2128&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Comedy, Inferno: Cantos 17-18, Circle 8, Ditches 1-2 – Pockets of Filth</title>
		<link>http://dougbeaumont.org/2011/09/23/divine-comedy-inferno-cantos-17-18-circle-8-ditches-1-2-%e2%80%93-pockets-of-filth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Beaumont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canto 17 &#8211; The Blessed Hell Ride Geryon, a massive man / lizard / scorpion rises out of the chasm to greet the travelers. His upper torso looks like a man at peace, but he is really a spotted (like a leopard!) reptile with a deadly tail. Geryon is named after a Spanish king who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbeaumont.org&amp;blog=5874879&amp;post=2112&amp;subd=souldevice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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