Natural Law (Continued from Part I) Critics of the Bible often point to ancient history as a method of discrediting the authenticity of the Bible. Specifically they claim ancient history refutes the notion that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God. Whereas Christians and Jews might point t...

From Summa Theologica : Treatise on Habits in Particular, Question 81, Article 3: Whether the sin of the first parent is transmitted, by the way of origin, to all men? This article is basically concerned with affirming the doctrine of Original Sin. Basically, Thomas relies on the teaching of the "Ca...

i am taking the exam for my one-week apologetics january class tomorrow afternoon i hope. i figured that writing the promised post on the presuppositional approach to apologetics would help me distill the essentials of what we learned, prepare me to write about it tomorrow, and fulfill that promise....

I love the fact that being reformed doesn't limit me to being cessationist. No, in fact, because of my upbringing in reformed theology, I think this informs my belief in the charismatic. Most people find this shocking. When people hear that I'm a reformed/charismatic (like in my SDA school) there ar...

Some people do not like to be labeled. And no one likes to be misrepresented. Some who seem to fit the “Emerging/Emergent” label don’t want to be pigeonholed into one category. Others resist terms like “liberal” and “conservative,” “fundamentalist...

In his letter to the Romans, Paul sets out to explain the gospel. The first step in explaining the gospel -- the good news -- is to explain why it is good news. The problem, it seems, is this: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by th...

I was pleasantly surprised to read the following at The Good News Ligonier Ministries. This is an excerpt from an article by Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr., founder of the Highlands Study Center in Mendota, Virginia, and son of the great Reformed author and teacher, Dr. R. C. Sproul, Sr. If we would understand...

(Tim, w/thanks to Jake) For a number of years, Yale's been hard at it putting the works of Jonathan Edwards online, freely available for hoi polloi who can no longer afford the critical edition now running around $110 per volume......

Despite the warnings of some, I do not believe the Southern Baptist Convention (or conservative evangelicalism for that matter) is currently facing the threat of Hyper-Calvinism. When properly defined, Hyper-Calvinism denies the universal intent of God’s love and denies the free offer of th...

    There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness with our renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow” ~ Martin Luther * A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and ...