"The Christian should speak the words of Scripture under the authority of Scripture, and according to that form which Scripture itself illustrates." -- John Wycliffe (1330-1384) He responded to the maze of philosophical abstractions, which didn't appeal to what God revealed.

“Destroys” is posturing, Jenna. It’s comical and juvenile. Should we start using that kind of loaded language to poison the well whenever you speak?

Poverty and systemic oppression will be completely eradicated as individuals securely enjoy the fruit of their own labor in a thriving economy under the rule of Messiah-King. Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:4

We’re streaming live from our London Conference, Chosen of God. Today’s sessions include: • Before the Foundation of the World by Mark Johnston • The Potter and the Clay by Sinclair Ferguson • Chosen for Holiness by Conrad Mbewe Join the stream now at live.Ligonier.org. #ligcon

God created a world in which He knew evil would exist. Could God have created a world in which evil did not exist? If the answer is, "Yes," then God intended to create evil. If the answer is, "No," then what is greater than God that forced Him to create evil He didn't intend?

#OTD September 25, 1929: J. Gresham Machen gave the inaugural address of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia to a class of fifty students and some guests. He and others had left Princeton Seminary after its reorganization, believing the school had abandoned its historic stand. “No, my friends, though Princeton Seminary is dead, the noble tradition of Princeton Seminary is alive. Westminster Seminary will endeavor by God’s grace to continue that tradition unimpaired.”

One of the most important lessons I learned about studying the Bible is to be careful not to conflate similar things into being the same thing. eg. Israel & Church Rapture & Second Coming (t)ribulation & (T)ribulation Much error arises from conflation.

In many ways, Christian Nationalism is just parroting liberation theology. *Christian Nationalism is just Roman Catholic Integralism with Protestant characteristics.

My likely final post in response to @DrDavidLAllen's book in which I address a core belief of Augustine which has been severely overlooked. Augustine wasn't being novel nor did he think he was being novel! aomin.org/aoblog/church-hist…

Netanyahu is right to call out the delegates leaving the UN General Assembly to protest his speech. They are, as he said, "moral cowards," and hypocrites as well as he made clear in his speech.

This was a great speech and the exact tone required. Israel's response to the horrific October 7th attacks by Gaza's elected government of Hamas has been oftentimes constrained by the US and Europe. No nation should have to weigh between being seen as "nice" and defending its people from unjustified, barbaric attacks -- especially when they unilaterally withdrew and gave turnkey property to Gazans in 2005.

"so that we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming,"-Eph 4:14 LSB Due to social media, the winds change direction faster than in Paul's day.

One thing I have learned in politics is that Ron DeSantis knows how to deliver wins for the GOP.

I find it ironic that some SBC Christian Nationalists rail against the IMB’s vaccine requirement on grounds of conscience. Why? On the one hand, they argue that individuals should be free to refuse the vaccine without being compelled to take it. I agree. On the other hand, these same figures want the state to exercise significant authority over matters of religious belief and practice. That is where I struggle to follow the argument. If we are concerned about a religious organization setting a condition for missionary service, shouldn’t we be even more concerned about the state binding people’s consciences on religious matters? Which is it? Does liberty of conscience matter only when we agree with the choice someone makes?

I absolutely believe the Genesis account of Noah's flood. But I'm old enough to remember many times this site has been studied and shown to be just like dozens of similar formations in the region. No, it's likely not Noah's ark. But that does't change the truth of Genesis at all.

“And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power...” Hebrews 1:3 is not describing a lesser god, and it is not describing an exalted man who was absent until Bethlehem. It says the Son is ἀπαύγασμα τῆς δόξης καὶ χαρακτὴρ τῆς ὑποστάσεως αὐτοῦ - the radiance of God’s glory and the exact imprint of His being. No creature can be that. Not a secondary deity whose nature is infinitely less than the Father’s, and not a later-exalted man who came into existence in time. If the Father’s being is eternal and infinite, an *exact* representation of that being is not a finite copy and is not a nature acquired after non-existence. Unless you abandon biblical monotheism, the text will not give you either construct. The grammar tightens the point. The writer does not say the Son became the imprint - ὃς χαρακτὴρ ἐγένετο. He says ὃς ὢν… χαρακτήρ: who *is* that imprint. Ὢν and φέρων stand as His present condition. Ποιησάμενος and ἐκάθισεν mark completed acts in time: He made purification for sins and sat down. Identity first; then the saving work. The contrast in the verbs is hard to miss. That does not mean a present participle magically proves eternity by itself. It means the writer grounds the Son’s saving work in who He already is, not in a nature He acquired, and not in a man who was not there in the pre-existence. Combined with the rest of the chapter - creatorship, immutability, eternality applied to the Son from Psalm 102 - the text leaves no room for a time when He was not the χαρακτήρ of the Father’s essence. In every Unitarian and JW reading I have seen, the Son ends up *not* the exact representation of the Father’s being. He is close, exalted, unique - just not χαρακτὴρ τῆς ὑποστάσεως αὐτοῦ. If He is less than that, the christ on offer is NOT the one Hebrews describes. That christ cannot save.

He tends to make this same charge against anyone who critiques CN. I'd honestly not worry about it and move on. He wrote a key book on the issue but his book doesn't exhaustively define the issue, nor exhaust the sources involved in the discussion. CN includes S Wolfe, but S Wolfe isn't the center of the debate. He's one voice in a larger conversation.

The greatest benefit of union with Christ *is* Christ.

Evangelicals, please keep urgently praying for the survival and full recovery of Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter’s son, Neria — an IDF reservist — critically wounded by a terrorist attack in the West Bank. allisraelnews.com/brief/amba… via @all_israel_news @yechielleiter

Thank God his grasp of me is not dependent on my grasp of him.

"Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?" — Galatians 4:16 Reddit is coping with reality about as well as you'd expect.