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Perspicuity of Scripture Contra Bellisario – Part 9
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 response to my quotation from Chrysostom. Mr. Bellisario has put my words in italics, and I have attempted to reproduce them as he provided them, within the quotation box below. His own…
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Dan on Pluperfects Again
I had previously pointed out how Dan was misunderstanding the pluperfect tense as applied to Acts 13:48 (link). Unfortunately, Dan does not listen to me and has chosen instead to prove by his actions how a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing (link). Dan thinks I’m mistaken and provides the following evidence:…
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Response to Dan's Use of Pluperfect
Recently (link to mp3 of July 30, 2009, Dividing Line Program), Dan called into the Dividing Line radio program. He was calling to discuss the following verse: Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.…
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Response to Dan’s Use of Pluperfect
Recently (link to mp3 of July 30, 2009, Dividing Line Program), Dan called into the Dividing Line radio program. He was calling to discuss the following verse: Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 4
In this passage we see David giving thanks for the return of the ark. He uses the mechanism prescribed in Leviticus: peace offerings in the form of thank offerings. He also sings a psalm of thanksgiving. As in the previous example, the Psalter has provided the “to be sung” version of this, namely Psalms 105,…
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Was Jesus a Calvinist?
Ok, it’s an obvious anachronism. Still, Josh Williamson at The Reformed Evangelist was kind enough to post a thought-provoking article on that topic, apparently originally by Sam Storms (link to article). To God be the Glory!
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Perspicuity of Scripture Contra Bellisario – Part 8
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 response to my quotation from Augustine. Mr. Bellisario has put my words in italics, and I have attempted to reproduce them as he provided them, within the quotation box below. His own…
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Muller on the Reformation
The following is a very brief response I had written and placed on hold some time ago, but which I might as well post now. After that is some more recent news, brought to my attention by the helpful folks at Historical Theoblogy. *** Older Portion *** I’ve perceived that Ponter, battered and bruised by…
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Hart on the Regulative Principle and the Transformation of Society
In a recent post at the Old Life Theological Society, Darryl Hart provides some observations on the relation of the Reformed churches to society (link). Hart provides an unusually astute observation: This is a key difference between paleo- and neo-Calvinists (not to mention other Presbyterian transformers of cutlure [sic]). In the case of old Calvinism,…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 3
The following passage is a Song of Thanksgiving. It thanks God for delivering David from the hands of his enemies, especially Saul. It is an important passage because it helps to demonstrate that the Psalter is the exclusive song-book for us. This song is recorded in 2 Samuel 22, but then repeated in Psalm 18.…