His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Ephesians was said to be John Calvin’s favorite letter, F. F. Bruce saw in it “the quintessence of Paulinism,” and Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it “the Queen of the Epistles.” Author and Date The letter to the Ephesians is identified as being by... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, II.3.1 As we have seen, the New Covenant would be “new” because it carries on God’s promise to his true bride, while those presuming upon the Old Covenant show themselves to be every bit as reprobate as the pagan. It was a... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, II.2.1 When David need to be cut down to size it was a prophet who stood over the king. Nathan called him on the sins of adultery with Bathsheba and murder of her husband, Uriah. No mere mortal was beyond the sword of the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, II.1.2 Moses was a prophet, but he was a type of the Prophet to come. So it says, “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen” [Deut. 18:15], and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, II.1.1 We have mentioned in passing that one of the modern objections to systematic theology is that it is inherently opposed to the way that the biblical authors expressed themselves. This comes to mean that biblical theology... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, I.3.4 Psychological Necessity as the Slope and Gravity of our Inferential Life The flip side of psychological impossibility is of course psychological necessity. Here we are not talking about an overall determinism, but a set... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, I.3.3 At the 2010 Together for the Gospel conference, Albert Mohler painted a very helpful picture of the task of the NTSB in the aftermath of a plane crash. He described the real task of some in the church to do this same... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, I.3.2 What is Most Central Metaphysically? The short answer that the biblical Christian gives to this question is simply ‘God.’ Paul gives a comprehensive picture of what God has made when he speaks of Christ: He is the image... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Doctrine and Division, I.3.1 Worldviews, of which theology is the most fundamental piece, are integrative. The imagery of a puzzle has been utilized much recently, but for our purposes it will prove too simple. The reason is that the elements of a... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
