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You Can’t Separate the Distorted Doctrine from Its Deviant Source of Allegorical Interpretation
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Doctrine, False or True, Emerges from Interpretation When you read a doctrinal statement, you might see scripture references attached as proof texts for the various doctrinal pronouncements. That could serve to signal that the doctrine comes from the Bible. Someone might use a verse […]
The Reformulation of the Overall Meaning of Scripture Proceeding from Allegorical Interpretation
Part One Part Two Satanic Attack on the Bible Satan opposes God and does this in major fashion by attacking scripture. This undermines or eliminates God’s authority with people, leaving them living on their own according to their own will. Saving faith comes also by hearing the actual Word of God. Early in the […]
The Heritage of the Ancient Turn toward Allegorization as a Hermeneutic
Part One Allegorical interpretation of scripture began to take shape in the pre-Christian era with Jewish scholars like Philo of Alexandria, who sought to reconcile Hebrew scriptures with Greek philosophy. By the 2nd century AD, early Christian thinkers like Origen adopted and expanded this method, viewing the Bible as containing hidden, spiritual meanings beneath its […]
The Church Fathers Are NotThe Church Fathers (Part Two)
Part One Proper Evaluation of History God promised the preservation of scripture, but not the preservation of history. Since God promised the preservation of scripture, He insures that with a high level of divine intervention. The Bible says much about this. Since God doesn’t promise to preserve history, we must judge history in a different […]
Calvinism, Unconditional Election and Baptismal Regeneration
Did you know that there is a connection between the heresy of the baptismal regeneration of infants and unconditional election and reprobation in Calvinism? In the chapter “Calvinism is Augstinianism,” by Kenneth Wilson, in the book Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique, ed. David L. Allen & Steve W. Lemke (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2022), […]
God and the Bible Are Dispensational (Part Three)
Part One Part Two The Bible did not come in one neat tidy package. God delivered it progressively through men over a period of 1500 years during history in real time, even using forty different men as human authors. As God revealed scripture, it did not come with a separate interpretive handbook and glossary […]
Henry II Versus Thomas Becket
A First Part Who was right in what is called the Becket Controversy? I’m not asking if the knights of Henry II should have killed Becket at Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170. I’m asking which side was right. A controversy bubbled into the English Reformation, which would say that Henry won in the end. […]
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