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Why is Union with Christ so Important?
Over at Green Baggins, Darryl Hart asked: [M]aybe you can help me out here. Every time I read the law, it brings me up way short. Apparently, when you read it you feel exonerated. How DO you do it? I answered: Union with Christ. That is the only way to feel exonerated in the face…
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Sometimes One Just Shakes One’s Head
Such as when one reads from Darryl Hart that “Maybe Mark Driscoll should turn Seattle into the Jerusalem of the Pacific Rim before setting up shop in Portland … .” What is he thinking? I certainly don’t agree with Driscoll on everything (in fact, I almost certainly disagree more with him than with Hart in…
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A Series of Unfortunate Arguments for R2K
Darryl G. Hart is continuing to attempt to defend R2K in the comment box at GreenBaggins. His arguments, however, are getting less and less Biblical – less and less Confessional – and less and less rational. Let me provide some examples: DGH wrote (source): Here’s the thing, how many citizens of the U.S. make killing…
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Radical Two-Kingdoms and the Reformed Confessions
Everyone already knows, I suppose, that the radical, supposedly Lutheran, view of the two kingdoms (R2kT for short) advocated by folks like Darryl Hart is contrary to the 1646 (original edition) Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF1646). In fact, advocates of R2kT typically brag that the American revisions to the Westminster Confession (WCF-AR) removed the language…
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Hart on the Regulative Principle and the Transformation of Society
In a recent post at the Old Life Theological Society, Darryl Hart provides some observations on the relation of the Reformed churches to society (link). Hart provides an unusually astute observation: This is a key difference between paleo- and neo-Calvinists (not to mention other Presbyterian transformers of cutlure [sic]). In the case of old Calvinism,…