Are there two firstborn sons? It would appear so. The question, therefore, is, In what sense(s) are either really ‘firstborn’?

To use a creed in order to refute the use of creeds is not only self-refuting, it is hypocritical.

In Matthew 3:5-12, we witness a stunning display of righteous zeal in the face of religious and political corruption.

Visible saints hold to orthodox theology. This does not mean that all visible saints know all that is orthodox.

The New Testament is replete with language identifying the church with the temple of our God, “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are (1 Cor. 3:17).”

He is a contextual voice regarding confessional hermeneutics making him a trustworthy source in discerning what the Protestant Reformed hermeneutic looked like in the late 16th and 17th centuries.

Though the three most influential Reformed confessions (Westminster, Savoy, 2LCF) begin with Scripture, it may surprise the reader to learn that neither confession begins with Scripture as a stand-alone authority.

Therefore, according to Calvin, Christ prays according to His human nature in John 17:5, and the divine Persons remain sufficiently and really distinguished in virtue of the relations of origin.

God is far beyond our ways such that man must strain the outer limits of his language just to flick the hem of His robe (if that).