Creedal Language

We are not engaged in a fight to recover biblical language simpliciter, but rather in a fight to recover the right to use biblical language when necessary. The vocabulary of historic liturgies, systematics, the creeds, and so on are also most necessary, and we should have no interest in ditching them unless absolutely necessary. Our endeavors in this whole area should include fifty years of attempted harmonization. At the same time, what we must reject is such uninspired creedal vocabulary making it impossible to use biblical language (as appropriate) without being called a heretic. I want to be able to use the word regeneration in the same way the Synod of Dort did, but I don’t want to be told that the usage of that venerable synod outranks Christ’s reference to life in the Regeneration.