The image of God in Adam was that he was spiritually good. This is the identification of the image of God in the Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 14; "good, righteous, and holy, capable in all things to will agreeably to the will of God." That the Confession conceives the image as Adam's spiritual goodness is …
The Sign of the Covenant!
The Sign of the Covenant in the Old Testament One commentator suggested that circumcision was instituted for sanitary, health reasons. If there was anything at all of that in it, it was incidental. It was the purpose and commandment of God that lay behind its institution, nothing else (Genesis 17:9-27). It was, strictly, his sign, …
The Wonderful Works of God!
Knowledge of creation is not absurd. It is not nonsense. It is not irrational. On the contrary, evolution, whether atheistic or in its guise as theistic, is absurd. Simply as an intellectual theory, it is absurd. It is the great hoax. The marvellous creature of man does not accidentally develop from a frog. The inanimate …
The Sufficiency of Scripture!
"We believe that these Holy Scriptures fully contain the will of God, and that whatsoever man ought to believe, unto salvation, is sufficiently taught therein...For since it is forbidden to add unto or take away anything from the word of God, it doth thereby evidently appear that the doctrine is thereof is most perfect and …
Snakes Alive!
Snakes alive! I’m nearly seventy-five; I’ll soon be gone, It won’t be long. The year I was born, in ’44, We’d just done won the war; Rule Britannia we sang wi’ lust, An under wur breath, the Gerries we’d cuss. Our hearts were filled wi’ wonderful glee, Now we can live and be really free; …
Romeward Bound!
"Today's Evangelicalism is overrun with Romish teachings. Man is justified by faith and faithfulness, by faith and faith's fruits, which are obedience. Or, man is justified now by faith alone but justified in the end by faith and something more. A sad but striking illustration of this is Bethlehem Baptist's, John Piper. Piper involves himself in Rome's error when, in a foreward …
Freedom Come & Freedom Go!
"The English Church shall be free and shall have its rights undiminished, and its liberties unimpaired." So says the very clause of the Magna Carta, the "great charter" signed by King John and the Barons of England on 15 June 1215. Only four of the Magna Carta's 63 clauses have remained a part of English …
