It has been over a year since John MacArthur has stepped into glory and see Jesus face to face. MacArthur has authored many books over the years including some commentaries. Back in 2017, MacArthur along with Richard Mayhue have put together a Systemat…
This article is the third part in a series (Part 1, Part 2). In the previous post, we looked at Dr. Wright’s claim that Francis Turretin and Petrus van Mastricht believed in a “decline narrative” of the Middle Ages. This is true in one sense—they both believed the early church was purer than the medieval […]
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In the previous post, I outlined why I believe Dr. Shawn Wright’s faculty address at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary misrepresented John Calvin’s relationship to Thomas Aquinas and medieval theology. In this post, I will examine Dr. Wright’s claims concerning the Reformed tradition and medieval theology. After arguing that Calvin did not hold Thomas Aquinas […]
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The question that Vern Poythress presents before us in his latest book, Mediator: A Biblical Theology, is how immoral people approach a holy God? How can people who are morally corrupt come up to a God who is beyond corruption? As Christians, we k…
The topic of spiritual gifts has been a heated debate for some time especially in the last few years. There have been articles, books, podcasts, debates, and even documentaries addressing if certain spiritual gifts have ceased or are they still continu…
Shamoun claims that the “canon argument” is the achilles heel of Protestantism. No it is not. Shamoun needs to read Michael Kruger’s two books on the canon. “Canon Revisited” and “The Question of Canon”. See other articles I have written … Continue reading
This video features David de Bruyn addressing the doctrine of justification by faith alone at St. John Viennay Seminary, which is a Roman Catholic seminary, followed by a Q&A session.
“Papalism” or “Sola Ecclesia” (The Roman Church has the final ultimate say on everything.) The Eastern Orthodox have their version of “Sola Ecclesia” also – (Their own Church Councils have the final say, even after the first 7 and their … Continue reading
Allen Nelson IV:Roman Catholicism is a dark religion and this is not by accident. It is demonically influenced to have a veneer of Christianity while actually leading its adherents away from Christ and to eternal destruction. Today’s post is to show yo…
We are halfway through 2025, and it has been another good year for reading God-exalting material so here are my top 5 books of the year so far in no particular order:Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God by Jonny ArdavanisC…
We are halfway through 2025, and it has been another good year for reading God-exalting material so here are my top 5 books of the year so far in no particular order:Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God by Jonny ArdavanisC…
Angels have always been an interesting subject especially around the time when the hit TV show, “Touched by an Angel” was on the air. There have been many discussions about them including whether or not each individual person as a guardian angel….
This discussion from the Urban Puritano podcast.
There have always been questions regarding the deity and humanity of Christ. Some have wondered did Jesus had to be fully man and fully God at the same time. Some have wondered if Jesus laid aside His divinity or some parts of His humanity. Lots o…
Over at the Living Waters Podcast, Ray Comfort, Emeal “E.Z.” Zwayne, Mark Spence, and Oscar Navarro have a discussion on what does the Bible say about dreams
Many in the church today do not believe in Hell. Some think Hell is something that is just made up to keep people in line. Hell is very real because the Bible says it is. In this video from the Pastor Scholar Podcast, Ryan Day, Dr. Cory M. Ma…
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that He might bring you to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit (1 Peter 3:18).Christ has stood in the place of the true Christian…
Divinity cannot suffer, yet in the incarnation God the Son does enter into our human experience and suffer to manifest His love to us, thus bringing us to Himself.
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Christians can be identified objectively as those who confess with their mouths the creed of their hearts, that Jesus is Lord.
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I am sure many of you have heard of theonomy. Well, if you have not, do not fear, many in the church has not either. I have to admit the first time I heard this word was when an elder at my former church mentioned he saw in on a bumper sticker. Th…
If you abandon Eternal Relations of Authority and Submission (ERAS) between the persons of the godhead, will you lose complementarianism as well? Does a commitment to classical trinitarianism undermine or weaken the case for headship and submission within the home? Some may fear that a departure from ERAS opens the door to egalitarianism. Unfortunately, a […]
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Traditionally, the church has defined the Trinity in a particular way: one nature, three persons. A nature refers to what something is, while a person refers to who someone is. But how do we define three uncreated persons who share the same nature? Historically, we have done so through what is known as “Personal Relations,” […]
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The incarnate Christ is one divine person who subsists in two distinct yet united natures, divine and human. He is not two persons, but rather “one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son.”
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The incarnate Christ is one divine person who subsists in two distinct yet united natures, divine and human. He is not two persons, but rather “one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son.”
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The consideration of the one will of God is a notion that safeguards Christians from practically inferring polytheism.
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“You just had to be there!” We fall back on this excuse when words fail to capture the precise reality of an experience—often a comedic interaction or visual beauty. The reality is that reality itself is often hard to describe. We do our best to describe it with words, but we’ve all experienced the frustration […]
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“You just had to be there!” We fall back on this excuse when words fail to capture the precise reality of an experience—often a comedic interaction or visual beauty. The reality is that reality itself is often hard to describe. We do our best to describe it with words, but we’ve all experienced the frustration […]
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Is the Son of God inferior to God? The answer to this question, after the incarnation, is both “yes and no.” The Son of God is indeed inferior to God, according to His assumed human nature, but He is not inferior to God, according to His divine nature. To understand this answer, it is necessary […]
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The incarnation was not the relocation, an act of moving to a new place, by the Word from heaven to earth. It was the assumption, the taking and uniting to himself, of a created human nature by the eternal Son of the eternal Father.
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The one God is confessed throughout the Scriptures, and this God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, distinct in Persons, the Son from the Father and the Spirit from the Father and the Son.
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