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Christian Liberty, the Roman Communion, and Inerrancy
As Christians, we have a lot of liberty. We can eat meat or abstain from eating it. We can drink or abstain from drinking. Moreover, in things about which Scripture has nothing to say, we have the Christian liberty to have a variety of opinions. In theory, Rome’s communion has a similar policy. They have…
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Mortal Sin of Not Observing Obligatory Holy Days Debate
It hasn’t been (I’m not sure whether it is over yet) a formal debate, but there are a series of posts back and forth that started with my rejection of the idea that it is mortal sin not to treat Christmas as a holy day, my affirmation of Christian liberty with respect to regarding days…
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Bellisario Burying Himself in the Carcases of More Straw Men
More response from Bellisario has come in. I’ll try to address it as thoroughly as possible, in the hopes that he’ll carefully read it and stop attacking straw men. Surely, eventually such wanton destruction of scarecrows will cause some sort of rhetorical carbon footprint problem, and we certainly don’t want that: I had written: a)…
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Response to Hoffer’s Inquiries on Christian Liberty
PH wrote: I would like to get your thoughts on the role of the Church in deciding whether to [celebrate] certain holidays or not. PH went on to provide the following: Chapter 21 of The Westminster Confession titled “Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day,” states in part: “The reading of the Scriptures with godly…
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Bellisario Swings Again
Bellisario is at it again. Let’s go through his latest post (link to the post): MB: “Recently the un-identifiable one released an all out attack at the Catholic Church for mandating Christmas as an obligatory Holy day.” TF: A couple of blog posts equals an “all out attack”? Does that seem melodramatic to anyone? His…
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Response to Nick on Christmas Observance
In response to my previous post (link), Nick has provided some comments: There are many “home based” non-denominational churches that apply your logic and in effect take away any common day of worship for Christians. The “Lord’s Day” on Sunday is no more binding than say Saturday or Tuesday worship. On top of that, any…
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Bellisario and Rome vs. Paul the Apostle on Christian Liberty
In a previous post (link), I quoted the words of Holy Scripture penned by Paul the Apostle: Romans 14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God…
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The real Turretin: On Christmas
I stumbled recently across this post, in which the author (about 80% of the way through the article) transcribes the real Turretin’s view on Christmas. (link) Obviously, I don’t share the views of the articles’ author, even if I do share the views of Turretin, Calvin, etc., whom he cites. Also, by the way, I…
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The Real Turretin – on Christian Liberty
Andrew Compton has provided a transcription (with commentary) of what the Real Francis Turretin had to say about Christian Liberty (first part) (second part). These thoughts are especially timely in a day when the Baptists are drawing new battle lines over the issue of forbidding folks from drinking. Thanks, Andrew, for publishing his remarks! -Turretinfan…
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Part V of my Response of my Response to Centuri0n on Christmas
This is the fifth, and final, post in my series of posts to Centuri0n. As I’ve pointed out in each of the last three posts, one should really start with the first post and read sequentially. (part 1)(part 2)(part 3)(part 4) In this part, I’ll be tackling Centuri0n’s conclusion:*** Centuri0n’s Conclusion, including embedded quotations ***It…