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Into the Church or Into the Visible Church?
Rob Rayburn (in his closing argument in the Leithart trial) stated: “Baptism is a means of grace. It brings a person into the church, the family of God as the Confession itself says.” Actually, the Confession says “Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission…
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Expert or Not? Jason Stellman Then and Now
In the first part of 2011, Jason Stellman solicited for contributions for the expenses of “expert witnesses” (the description used at the time) who were to testify at the trial of Peter Leithart (evidence here). During the trial, as reported by Stellman himself, Stellman identified his witness as an expert witness: MODERATOR O’BAN: Well, let…
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James Jordan or Joseph Smith?
Here’s the quotation: “We shall no longer be under the Father — except in the more general sense that as creatures we shall always be “under” God. As the fully mature Son sits with his Father on his throne, so shall we (Revelation 3:21; John 17:21-22). We shall be co-elders with the Father and the…
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With Friends Like These, Jeffrey Meyers Needs Help!
A committee of the Missouri Presbytery of the PCA attempted to exonerate Jeff Meyers of the charges of, in essence, being a Federal Visionist. They explained: In addition to this the [committee] suspects another underlying assumption of the complainants in this first section (II.A), namely, that any man who identifies with FV in some way…
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Paedo-Communion and the Federal Vision
Those who signed the Federal Vision Joint Statement hold to paedo-communion. Paedo-communion is contrary to the Reformed confessions. One might think that would be enough of a reason to have the signers removed. It is not, for whatever reasons. Perhaps if they hold to baptismal regeneration, that will be deemed to be enough? Test case.…
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>Did Otis and/or Aquila Misrepresent Higgins’ Views?
>In “Discerning Roman Catholic Tendencies Among Professing Reformed Churches,” published by Dominic Aquila, John Otis gave strong warnings about Craig R. Higgins, calling him a “very dangerous man” and “equally dangerous” with the Federal Visionists such as Peter Leithart. Otis summarizes his lengthy and detailed analysis this way: To recap Craig Higgins’ theological errors, they…
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Accusations against Pastor Brian Carpenter
I found a report on the accusations against Pastor Brian Carpenter (link to report). There are a lot of accusations mixed together there, but the only seemingly concrete, particular, specific accusation was that Mr. Carpenter had stated: “He [referring to Pastor Moon] also affirmed that he believes that no reprobate person ever gets justification, and…
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Response to David Meyer on Sola Scriptura
David Meyer wrote: “At the end of the Sola Scriptura authority tunnel I find a mirror and a clown suit. I’m not going to put it on. Christ either gave us a church that has a single knowable doctrine, or this is all just a big joke.” (source) I answer: I’ve found that the end…
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Doug Wilson on Sola Fide
“I hold that a man is justified by the sole instrument of God-given faith, as that faith is placed by the grace of God in the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ alone, He who lived and died in our stead. I maintain that the only legitimate response that a creature may have toward…
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Federal Vision and Temporary Faith / Temporary Forgiveness
Joshua Moon, pastor of Good Shepherd PCA in Minnetonka, provided (publicly, from the floor of presbytery) a speech in defense of Pastor Lawrence. During the speech he made the following statement: “we are the ones who speak of ‘temporary faith’–not pseudo-faith, but faith that is temporary and so, in the end, not effectual for salvation.”…