Book 1/Chapter 13 The Eternal Word (section 8) 1. How do false teachers undermine the deity of Christ? 2. At what point do they think the Word began? 3. What passage of Scripture does Calvin use to contradict this? Christ our God in the Old Testament (section 9) 1. What is the significance of Psalm …
More on the Trinity
Book 1/Chapter 13 The Limits (section 5) 1. What is the fundamental affirmation about the Trinity which Calvin requires? 2. Have the church fathers spoken on this with one voice? 3. What are the dangers of speaking about this at all? 4. What is the essential attitude of the false teachers? 5. Can someone scruple …
The Trinity and the Language of Scripture
Book I/Chapter 13 God & Reason (section 1) 1. What are two different kinds of errors that arise concerning God’s spiritual and infinite essence? 2. Why does God speak “sparingly” of His essence? 3. How must we not measure God? 4. What does Calvin mean when he says that God “lisps” to us? 5. What …
Fragment of a Lost Tale
Sometimes editors make you take things out, you know? And sometimes you do it yourself. But then you find it later.
Spooky Numbers
A friend sent me this link and I almost posted it, and then a few days later I saw it on Mark Horne’s blog and decided to put it up here. The numbers are creepy any way you think about it, but I do wish there were another set of numbers alongside these. I believe …
Latria and Dulia
Book I/Chapter 12 True Religion (section 1) 1. What does the knowledge of God not consist of? 2. What does Calvin hold “religion” to mean? 3. What is the value of religion? 4. Is it enough to concede the supreme honors to God? 5. What does Calvin mean by the “vast throng” surrounding God? Latria …
Righteous Vengeance/Romans 11
INTRODUCTION: Paul is walking the world through the meaning of honest confession before God. The unbelieving Gentiles don’t want to honor God as God, or give Him thanks, and so Paul set the grandeur of God right in front of them, as displayed in every created thing. The Jews don’t want God, and so Paul …
Let God Be True/Romans X
INTRODUCTION: We learned from the end of chapter two that not all Jews are Jews, along with the corollary that not all Christians are Christians. But keeping up with the apostle can be a strenuous effort sometimes, and we now learn in the first part of chapter three that the Jews who are not really …
Justice Is Not Patty-Cake
In his otherwise admirable book on evil, N.T. Wright makes the drastic mistake of leaving the subject of Hell entirely alone. But no matter how many helpful things you say, if you leave the really huge question out, then all you are really displaying is a real loss of proportion. “Well, other than that, how …
Covenant Sunglasses and the Decretal Sun
My thanks to Lane for working through our Federal Vision statement. This response of mine should tie that one off with a bow, and so it will be off to the next thing. Perhaps paedocommunion if we can work out a system. I agree with Lane that IAOC is not the same thing as imputation …