Inerrancy: Meaning and Usage. Arthur Carl Piepkorn produced a terribly useful study of the history of this term back in 1965 ("What Does the Word Inerrancy Mean"? Sept 1965). He pointed out that the word was nowhere to be found in the Confessional literature of the dogmatic tradition of the Lutheran Church. A survey of …
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Spurgeon: Where Shall We Find Infallibility?
This is from the last sermon that Charles Spurgeon preached to pastors. For a while Spurgeon had drifted into using the English Revised Version. But then he came to a realization, and he preached this sermon. “Believe in the inspiration of Scripture, and believe it in the most intense sense …. If this book be not …
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What Authority Do You Trust to Give You the Bible?
BB Warfield as well as being an evolutionist introduced to Princeton Seminary biblical text criticism. He did so inspired by Westcott and Hort, who were equally inspired by the German higher critic, Griesbach. Warfield altered his interpretation of the Westminster Confession (1:8) regarding the preservation of the biblical text. He advocated a meaning the Confession …
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B. B Warfield and the Preservation of the Biblical Text!
BB Warfield as well as being an evolutionist introduced to Princeton Seminary biblical text criticism. He did so inspired by Westcott and Hort, who were equally inspired by the German higher critic, Griesbach. Warfield altered his interpretation of the Westminster Confession (1:8) regarding the preservation of the biblical text. He advocated a meaning the Confession …
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Who Hardens Men’s Hearts?
"Why does the minister exhort the congregation not to harden their hearts when in fact the work of redemption is solely one of God's election?" It might indeed seem that if salvation is of grace alone according to God's purpose in election, that it is superfluous to tell people not to harden their hearts: (1) …
The Image of God!
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, …
