The “Fundamentalist Practice of Separation”?
I’m glad Fred Butler is even thinking about separation, let alone talking about it. It’s rare to have an evangelical say anything about it. They usually are attacking separation (as they are here), but you’re thankful for whatever you can get. At the ETS in San Francisco, I asked the panel why no books on […]
Don’t Fix Stupid: Stupid Doesn’t Need Fixing
God hath chosen the foolish (stupid) things of the world to confound the wise 1 Corinthians 1:27 In last week’s discussion about the blood, we had seen how someone said (and since retracted the pejorative) about people who took a certain position that disagreed with him, “You can’t fix stupid.” There’s a lot I could […]
“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 5
The study in this post is now part of a larger study available online by clicking here: “The just shall live by faith”— A Study of Faith’s Connection with Salvation in All Its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fullness The part here began with the words: Those who came to believe in Jehovah and His Messiah, […]
How Does the Blood of Christ Come into an Explanation of the Gospel or Salvation?
Please read parts one and two of this now series. ******** At the dinner table and in family devotions this week, I talked about what the blood of Christ does for us at salvation. I have a wife and three kids at that table now. One daughter is a freshman in college, but she’s at […]
The Story of the Blood Issue (from my Perspective)
In 1983, Moody Press published John MacArthur’s Hebrews commentary. That summer I read it completely, all the way through. I had never heard anyone explain “the blood issue,” so MacArthur filled a bit of a void for me. I had really no view and now I had read one. By default, I took the MacArthur […]
Are You Stupid If You Believe the Blood of Christ Isn’t Merely Human?
Make sure to keep up with Thomas Ross’s series on saving faith. **************** Over twenty-five years ago, while I was in seminary, I wrote a paper on the blood of Christ which was something very close to John MacArthur’s view. I got the paper back and a “B+” was on the front. As I read […]
“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 4
The study in this post is now part of a larger study available online by clicking here: “The just shall live by faith”— A Study of Faith’s Connection with Salvation in All Its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fullness The part here began with the words: Habakkuk 2:4, the heart of the entire book of Habakkuk, […]
How Is the Bible the Sole Authority for Faith and Practice? pt. 2
Part One In part one, I explored what Baptists have meant by “the Bible is the sole authority for faith and practice.” I said that one aspect of what Baptists meant is that the Bible is the only “infallible” authority for faith and practice and the supreme judge, but not the only judge. In other […]
How Is the Bible the Sole Authority for Faith and Practice?
When Baptists say that the Bible is their sole or only rule or authority for faith and practice, what do they mean? Millard Erickson in his Theology (vol. I, p. 258) speaks of a Baptist seminary president, who said, tongue in cheek, “We Baptists do not follow tradition. But we are bound by our historic […]
“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 3
The study in this post is now part of a larger study available online by clicking here: “The just shall live by faith”— A Study of Faith’s Connection with Salvation in All Its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fullness The part here began with the words: Kaiser explains the relationship between faith and faithfulness or obedience […]