Sola Scriptura & Biblicism: What’s the Difference?

Sola Scriptura and biblicism are entirely different from one another in form and matter. Sola Scriptura is a principle, biblicism is a mode or manner of biblical interaction.

Of the Human Nature of the Son

What does it mean to say, “Christ assumed human nature?”

Persons or Subsistences? Trinity In Theological Perspective

The term subsistence tends to avoid the confusion caused by the word person…

Is the Kenotic Heresy a ‘Wondrous Story’?

It occurred to me last night that ‘I Will Sing the Wondrous Story’, by Francis Rowley (1886), is explicitly kenotic in its Christology.

Reading God’s Sovereignty Non-Fatalistically

If we are not careful to understand the meaning of Scripture within the context of the whole counsel of God, our sin nature will take over, and we will use texts like this petition to justify our laziness.

Does Scripture Teach Divine Simplicity?

The question is whether or not the concept of divine simplicity is necessarily contained within the text. And to this question we are able to answer with a clear affirmation.

Two Reasons In Favor Of Subordinate Authorities (Norma Normata)

The doctrine of sola Scriptura is a declaration of Scriptural sufficiency. But as of late, one would think it also serves as a statement on man’s sufficiency.

Classical Theism Takes On Divine Temporality

To the extent temporality explains God’s ability to create, temporality—not God—is the first cause of the universe.

Trading the Lord’s Day for… Christmas?

Aside from the obvious holes in Lang’s reasoning, Scripture hardly qualifies when it commands the assembling of God’s people. (Heb. 10:24-25)

Gary DeMar & 1 Thessalonians 4

And it’s also concerning that DeMar does all of this while maintaining a decently high profile influence over younger and/or more impressionable Christians.

Gary DeMar & 1 Thessalonians 4

Gary DeMar & 1 Thessalonians 4

And it’s also concerning that DeMar does all of this while maintaining a decently high profile influence over younger and/or more impressionable Christians.

Will the Christian Ever Stop Working?

Will the Christian Ever Stop Working?

Unwittingly, Christians often make the assumption, implicitly or explicitly, that the work of redemption was intended to restore man to a Garden of Eden situation, and that nearly everything about the pre-lapse life will characterize life in glory.

The Divine Dominion

The Divine Dominion

Power, as a divine attribute, leads us to consider the administration of it in God’s sovereign dominion.

Trials & Their Outcome

Trials & Their Outcome

This is a command and an encouragement to count those things as joy which the world would count as occasions for despair and cynicism.

Our Pilgrimage

Our Pilgrimage

A pilgrim, traditionally understood, is a sojourner in a land that is not his own.

Losing the Legacy of Orthodoxy

Losing the Legacy of Orthodoxy

The design of common/redemptive kingdom semantics is the preservation of the redemptive kingdom, and with it, the preservation of the gospel that alone produces it.

Covenant Theology IV | The Covenant of Works

Covenant Theology IV | The Covenant of Works

In substance, all that is meant by “covenant of works” is the divine imposition of conditions upon man in the garden with blessings for obedience to those conditions and curses for failing to obey.

John Calvin & Tradition

John Calvin & Tradition

Calvin generally thought of biblical interpretation as a task to be done in concert with the rest of the Christian church.

All That Is God Is Father, Son, & Holy Spirit

All That Is God Is Father, Son, & Holy Spirit

Fundamentally, ERAS must reject the clause in the Athanasian Creed that says, “Nothing in this trinity is before or after, nothing is greater or smaller; in their entirety the three persons are coeternal and coequal with each other.”

To Whom was the Old Testament Written?

To Whom was the Old Testament Written?

Many Christians do not know what to do with the Old Testament or where to place it in terms of its significance for the Christian life. Yet the Scriptures give us numerous examples…