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Alexander Whyte on the Second Commandment
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT. II3 Q. 49. Which is the second commandment? A. The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not…
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Zacharias Ursinus on the Second Commandment
The following is an excerpt from Zacharias Ursinus’ Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism (link to book). THIRTY-FIFTH LORD’S DAY. Question 96. What does God require in the second command? Answer. That we in nowise represent God by images, nor worship him in any other way than he has commanded in his word. EXPOSITION. Two things…
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Ergun Caner – PHIL104 "Contemporary World View"
Dr. Ergun Caner has a series of videos associated with the course PHIL104 – Contemporary World View. One particular video is from Week 4, Lecture 9: “Islam.” (link to video – will open in iTunes) I have not watched all of the videos for this course, so I cannot comment on the contents of the…
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Ergun Caner – PHIL104 "Contemporary World View"
Dr. Ergun Caner has a series of videos associated with the course PHIL104 – Contemporary World View. One particular video is from Week 4, Lecture 9: “Islam.” (link to video – will open in iTunes) I have not watched all of the videos for this course, so I cannot comment on the contents of the…
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Ergun Caner: Forward to Louis Ruggiero's The God of Calvinism
Ergun Caner’s introduction to Louis Ruggiero’s recently released book is short (two pages). The first page, first sentence is this: “For the first half of my life, I was raised a Muslim. My father, an ulema (that is, a scholar in Islam) drove home the key concepts of Islam that guided every single step of…
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Ergun Caner: Forward to Louis Ruggiero’s The God of Calvinism
Ergun Caner’s introduction to Louis Ruggiero’s recently released book is short (two pages). The first page, first sentence is this: “For the first half of my life, I was raised a Muslim. My father, an ulema (that is, a scholar in Islam) drove home the key concepts of Islam that guided every single step of…
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Second Helvetic Confession on Images
The following is CHAPTER IV of the Second Helvetic Confession (1562, revised 1564) “Of Idols or Images of God, Christ and The Saints” (link to Confession) Adopted by the Reformed Church not only in Switzerland but in Scotland (1566), Hungary (1567), France (1571), and Poland (1578). IMAGES OF GOD. Since God as Spirit is in…
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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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Caner: "Written on the Wall of the Mosque in Kabul"
Someone has provided a nice amalgamation clip that compares Caner’s two accounts of what is written on the wall of a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdITMs6VDY?fs=1&hl=en_US&w=640&h=385] Notice that the English is seemingly the same, but the non-English is different. Is this simply Caner faking a foreign language, or is Caner actually saying something in…
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Caner: "Written on the Wall of the Mosque in Kabul"
Someone has provided a nice amalgamation clip that compares Caner’s two accounts of what is written on the wall of a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdITMs6VDY&fs=1&hl=en_US] Notice that the English is seemingly the same, but the non-English is different. Is this simply Caner faking a foreign language, or is Caner actually saying something in some…