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Religious Pluralism and the Christian Magistrate
I like R. Scott Clark. He’s a good guy, and smart guy. I don’t know why he is so fond of what appears to be a practically Lutheran version of Two Kingdoms. It comes across pretty clearly in this post of his today (link to his post). RSC writes: If the real “problem” for the…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 11
The first passage below provides a list of the Levites who dwelt at Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah. One will note that Mattaniah is the leader of thanksgiving in prayer and that the second prominent Levite of the sons of Asaph was Bakbukiah. Meanwhile, the other prominent Levite is Abda. Using a hop-skip genealogy,…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 10
In this passage, we have another temple-related thanksgiving. Again, the Levites are at the center of it, and again, the Psalms are being sung. They may have picked that Psalm (or those Psalms – several Psalms fit that description, as we’ve noted previously) simply because it is a Psalm of thanksgiving, but perhaps alternatively because…
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Clerical Celibacy Rebuttal – Extremely Short Form
Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. To God be the Glory!
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Response to Heschmeyer's Purgatory Thought Experiments
Joe Heschmeyer at Shameless Popery has provided some “thought experiments” regarding purgatory (link to his post). Heschmeyer has two similar experiments – in both cases an object is dropped and broken. Heschmeyer asks whether the object’s owner can forgive the breaker of the object and still demand that the person who broke it clean up…
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Response to Heschmeyer’s Purgatory Thought Experiments
Joe Heschmeyer at Shameless Popery has provided some “thought experiments” regarding purgatory (link to his post). Heschmeyer has two similar experiments – in both cases an object is dropped and broken. Heschmeyer asks whether the object’s owner can forgive the breaker of the object and still demand that the person who broke it clean up…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 9
By the time of Hezekiah, the worship of God had fallen into disrepair. Hezekiah began to reign at 25 years old, and he had a passion for the restoration of God’s worship. The following passage relates his re-opening of the temple, including thanksgiving to God. It is interesting to note that the singing selected by…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 8
In the following passage we see the ark being brought into the temple of Solomon. We see Jeduthun making an appearance again together with Asaph and Heman. The Psalm that they are singing could be one of several Psalms. It could be Psalm 106, which we’ve already seen. Alternatively, it could be Psalm 107, 118,…
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Perspicuity of Scripture Contra Bellisario – Part 12
I’m responding to a post from Mr. Matthew Bellisario (see my first post for the introduction). In this post, I address Mr. Bellisario’s concluding remarks. His own words are as follows: This whole post by TF as far as I am concerned was the real flimsy flam. Cutting and pasting quotes out of their historical…
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John Wesley on "Turretin"
I recently came across this blog post recording John Wesley’s negative reaction to a book called “History of the Church” by “Turretin” (link to post). I had hoped this might be a work by Francis Turretin, but I was disappointed. It was instead a reference to Historiae ecclesiasticae compendium usque ad 1700 by Jean-Alphonse Turretin,…