Understanding Confessional Retrieval (Part 2)
There are many things we observe in history that we wouldn’t necessarily want to appropriate into the present.
Understanding Confessional Retrieval (Part 1)
The church is not a biological, chemical, or mechanical laboratory. We’re not looking for the latest developments in “Christian theology.” Our science is very old.
The Analogy of Scripture
When we say “Scripture interprets Scripture,” we are talking about the analogy of Scripture.
What Is the Gospel?
We should be careful not to insert ourselves, or what we do into the gospel equation. If we do this, we essentially become co-mediators and co-redeemers with Christ.
An Account of Credobaptism From Matthew 8
It’s a microcosm of the overall redemptive arc of our Lord’s incarnate ministry. From Capernaum, through the trial of storm, landing in the nether regions on the other side of Galilee (and Jordan).
A Simple Definition of Virtue
According to Thomas Aquinas, the Augustinian definition “comprises perfectly the whole essential notion of virtue.”
Nehemiah Coxe & Paedobaptist Inconsistency
But paedobaptists generally limited covenant interest only to immediate offspring.
What Is Theoretical Theology?
When we speak of theology as “theoretical” we are not speaking about something uncertain or non-factual.
Which Way Western Man? Curiosity, Or Studiousness?
Very few people speak to one another. Knecks angled down, eyes overshadowed by hair or brow, most people stare at their phones.
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.
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 Sufficiency of Scripture, the Insufficiency of Man
Because of man’s inadequacy, the Holy Spirit turns the Christian to his fellow man, “Without counsel, plans go awry, But in the multitude of counselors they are established.” (Prov. 15:22)
The Divine Dominion
Power, as a divine attribute, leads us to consider the administration of it in God’s sovereign dominion.
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.
What Does Jesus Think About Adultery?
The Author of the law comes to deliver the law according to its fuller sense.
Our Pilgrimage
A pilgrim, traditionally understood, is a sojourner in a land that is not his own.
Divine Immutability According to Scripture
God is self-existent and is thus unaffected by His creation. Creation does not leave an impression on Him.
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
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.
Covenant Theology III | The Covenant of Redemption
The covenant of redemption is not distinct to paedobaptist covenant theology, but to the orthodoxy of high Calvinism in the post-Reformation era.
Covenant Theology II | Jesus, Plus Some Other Stuff?
To bring our understanding of the New Testament into Old Testament interpretation is, for the dispensationalist, an “intrusion of an outside view upon the plain text of Scripture.”