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Bryan Cross – Index Page
Now that I’ve responded (and hosted responses from Pastor David King) to Bryan Cross of the Roman Catholic blog Called to Communion several times, it seems fitting to create an index page for easy reference to interactions with him. As with all index pages, I will try to update the page and I may date…
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Temporary Faith – A. A. Hodge
15. What is the nature of temporary faith, and of the evidence upon which it is founded? Temporary faith is that state of mind often experienced in this world by impenitent hearers of the gospel, induced by the moral evidence of the truth, the common influences of the Holy Ghost, and the power of religious…
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Temporary Faith – Thomas Ridgley
There is another kind of faith, which has some things in common with saving faith, and is sometimes mistaken for it, but is vastly different from it. This, in some, is called an historical faith; and in others, by reason of the short continuance thereof, a temporary faith. An historical faith is that whereby persons…
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Unloading 17 More Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 2/17
Steve Ray has a list of more than 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). I originally planned to respond to just 35 of them, but the series seems to have been of interest, so in this extension, I’m responding to three more numbered questions in his list, plus…
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Unloading 17 More Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 2/17
Steve Ray has a list of more than 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). I originally planned to respond to just 35 of them, but the series seems to have been of interest, so in this extension, I’m responding to three more numbered questions in his list, plus…
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Athanasian Denial of Scripture's Formal Sufficiency?
Sean Patrick of the Called to Communion blog has been providing some responses in the comment box in an earlier post (SP was primarily using the nick “Blogahon”). SP has suggested that the following quotation from Athanasius negates the idea that Athanasius held to the formal sufficiency of Scripture. SP provides the quotation in this…
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Athanasian Denial of Scripture’s Formal Sufficiency?
Sean Patrick of the Called to Communion blog has been providing some responses in the comment box in an earlier post (SP was primarily using the nick “Blogahon”). SP has suggested that the following quotation from Athanasius negates the idea that Athanasius held to the formal sufficiency of Scripture. SP provides the quotation in this…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 7)
[Cont’d from previous section] Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture?Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture to interpret Scripture sufficiently, from Scripture, reason, and tradition. (Part 7) Basil of Caesarea (about A.D. 329-379): You could find many passages of this sort in the writings of the…
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Ergun Caner vs. James White: Which is More Like the Jerry Springer Show?
This video (about 1/2 hour long) provides an amusing comparison of Dr. White’s debates to various antics of Ergun Caner. The reason for the video is Ergun Caner’s claim that Reformed apologists have taken over the formal debate scene and turned it into something like the Jerry Spring Show. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hif35s7UGtU&hl=en_US&fs=1&] To God be the Glory!
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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.”…