200 POSTS
I don’t know if this makes any difference, but that last post was my 200th since I started blogging here during the Lincoln Presidency.
Atonement (Part Two): Less Excellent Than Christ
Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, but the Lord Jesus Christ offered a more excellent sacrifice than Abel and any or all other Old Testament sacrifices. Christ’s Work on account of sin was greater and better than atonement. In the Old Testament, atonement was made in many different ways. Moses made atonement by […]
Atonement (Part One): An Old Testament Term
The middle letter of T-U-L-I-P in the five points of Calvinism is “Limited Atonement.” Before anyone can decide what he believes about atonement, he should know what atonement is. What do you think atonement is? Are you confused as it relates to the death of Christ? It seems that men think this term “atonement” is […]
Be Still
I have an image in my head of my oldest daughter, explaining to me why she couldn’t get a project done that I had for her. This was several years ago when she explained: “I can’t sit steeeel.” At the time, I was very amused that she did have an answer, one that was a […]
Perspicuity and an Emerging Corollary
You know the Monroe Doctrine. President James Monroe. After the War of 1812, the U. S. place expanded in the world. We just finished with England and in this weakened state, Spain generated problems in Florida. Andrew Jackson won at Horshoe Bend in Tennessee and in New Orleans against England, and then against Indians, smugglers, […]
Is Sanctification a “Secondary Doctrine?”
Today’s new-evangelicals regularly contribute to published materials on the doctrine of sanctification. It is a big deal with them, as it should be with anyone who claims the name of Christ. John MacArthur writes: Scripture is the manual for all “soul work” and is so comprehensive in the diagnosis and treatment of every spiritual matter […]
What Does This Verse Mean and How Does It Apply? You Tell Me
This verse: Deuteronomy 22:5, “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” ******************************** ******************************** Here’s how we will do this. You answer the question in the title. I will comment. Let’s […]
When Would You Receive Your Good Things?
An important choice confronts all of us in our lifetimes and it is depicted by the question of this title: When Would You Receive Your Good Things? This ultimate choice fleshes itself out of a true story that the Lord Jesus Christ tells in Luke 16. The story begins in verse nineteen with the two […]
Where is the Bible? Part Two: Answering the Questions
Canonicity is a good test case for MVO or Critical Text people. In a very transparent way, it shows the double standard they have for the doctrine of preservation. We have a far more developed doctrine of preservation in Scripture than a doctrine of canonicity. Most defense of canonicity comes from the patristics and their […]
Where Is the Bible?
In a New Testament manuscript dating from the fourth century, Codex Vaticanus (so named because it was found in the Vatican library), a scribe copied in Hebrews 1:3, “Christ manifests [Gk: phaneron] all things by the word of his power.” That is a different reading than the one found in most manuscripts available, which say, […]