Category: Sermon on the Mount

  • Horton vs. the Sermon on the Mount (take 2!)

    In a previous post, we saw how Horton exegetically blundered in asserting that “In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus clearly abrogated the ceremonial and civil law that God had given uniquely to the nation of Israel.” Horton is at again. This time he writes: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus announces a “regime…

  • An Example of the Exegetical Blunders of Horton’s View of the Two Kingdoms

    Prof. Michael Horton has an article entitled, “The Death of Osama bin Ladin: What Kind of Justice Has Been Done?” Horton takes the occasion of bin Ladin’s death as a chance to attempt to propagate his unhistorical view of the two kingdoms. I don’t mean to suggest that the idea of two kingdoms is not…