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Examining John 17 and Christian Disunity
On his personal blog, Roman Catholic Bryan Cross has a post that consists of a flowchart (link to post). If you examine his flow chart, you’ll notice that in the upper right hand corner he asks the reader to “Go read John 17.” The reason to go read that chapter, per Bryan’s flow chart, is…
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Knowledge of God
How do we know God? The answer to this is two-fold: through the external ministry of the word and the internal ministry of the Spirit. The external ministry of the word is the preached gospel. It is a proclamation of that which has been handed down to us from the prophets, evangelists, and apostles –…
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Epistemology – Some More Thoughts
1. Certainty about information being true is properly justified according to the source of that information. 2. God is the ultimate and only infallible source of information. 3. Therefore, certainty in the strictest sense is only possible via revelation from God. 4. Perspicuity is important to certainty. 5. Scripture is the highest form of revelation,…
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Paradoxes and the Christian Faith
Those following the Reformed blogosphere have no doubt witnessed occasional fireworks over the issue of paradox between my brethren who prefer the philosophy of Gordon Clark (whose most prominent disciple was John Robbins) and those who prefer the philosophy of Cornelius Van Til (whose most prominent disciple was Greg Bahnsen). As one might expect from…
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Why Does Scripture have Epistemic Priority? Carl F. H. Henry Explains
“The scriptural revelation takes epistemological priority over general revelation, not because general revelation is obscure or because man as sinner cannot know it, but because Scripture as an inspired literary document republishes the content of general revelation objectively, over against sinful man’s reductive dilutions and misconstructions of it.” -Carl F. H. Henry (God Revelation, and…