I promised last month to post some articles on the Order of Elective Decrees, and here’s the final entry, dealing with the topics of Amyraldism and Improved Amyraldism, or Baxterianism. The doctrine of Amyraldism, was formulated by Moise Amyraut, a French theologian who taught at the University of Saumur. A version of it was also […]
Order of Elective Decrees, Part 3 Read More »
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity: God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong; I cannot. If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be
What remarkable robots we would be… Read More »
It is often said that the doctrines we believe have a tendency to lead us to sin. I have heard it asserted most positively, that those high doctrines which we love, and which we find in the Scriptures, are licentious ones. I do not know who will have the hardihood to make that assertion, when
"We have gone back to the old school…" Read More »
As promised, here is another post on the Order of Decrees. There are several different opinions regarding the meaning of the terms Sublapsarian and Infralapsarian. Some people use one to refer to the traditional reformed Infralapsarian view, and the other to refer to Amyraldism (which I will explain in a later post). But there is
The Order of God’s Eternal Elective Decrees, Part 2 Read More »
This was posted today on Challies.com: We look back at the disciples, and we wonder, “What in the world was wrong with them? How could they not get it?” The reality is quite the opposite. We should ask instead, “How could they get it?” It is impossible. It is beyond comprehension. The Old Covenant sacrifices,
The disciples did not get it because of Total Inability Read More »
I’ve been meaning to post on this for a while. Mark Driscoll spoke about the Emergent church at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2007. It’s a very good message that describes the history of the Emergent church, his involvement with the Emergent movement and subsequent separation, and the movement’s dangerous doctrines. The message brings a
Mark Driscoll on the History and Doctrines of the Emergent Church Movement Read More »
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change” (James 1:17, ESV). We accept the good. But do we except the “evil”? (By “evil”, I mean it looks like a disaster to us. I do not
Every good gift is from the Father Read More »
(The Sovereign Plan of God in the Incarnation) This is the manuscript of the message I taught tonight at home fellowship as part of our annual Advent series. It’s also the first time I’ve taught grown-ups since my Bible college Homiletics class. Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard
Plan A: Glory and Grace Read More »
I heard this the other day on the “Ask Pastor John” podcast and just discovered they put the transcript online. Here’s the link. I recommend you download and listen to the full version, though.
The most spectactular sin ever committed Read More »
Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield wrote the following in The Plan of Salvation, Part I: The two parties here are known in the history of thought by the contrasting names of Supralapsarians and Sublapsarians or Infralapsarians. The point of difference between them is whether God, in his dealing with men with reference to their destiny, divides them
B.B. Warfield on the Supralapsarian Controversy Read More »