Theology That Bites Back
“In Jesus Christ, we received the fullness of the wrath of God, and in Jesus Christ we receive the fullness of God’s pleasure in His well-beloved Son. This exchange, this glorious transaction, occurred on the Mercy Seat in the Great Heaven between the cherubim, and it is a mercy entirely covered in blood. Trying to clean the blood off does us no favors at all.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 15
“God made it [penal substitution] scandalous on purpose in order to keep our number of refined theologians to a minimum.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 14
“We are saved from the wrath of God by the love of God as these two attributes of God collided in the agony of Jesus Christ.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 13
Introduction: Over the last year or so, from time to time you may have wondered to yourself why I have taken it into my head to go around talking about the 19th Amendment so much. This, along with my supposed interest in repealing the right of women to vote. Why on earth would I ever …
“No translation means exactly the same thing.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 11
Letter to the Editor: God isn't a cosmic sadist who loves to withhold blessing from His children. Fair. However—how do we speak about what looks very much like a pattern of intolerable ...
“I believe that the coming of the Christ fulfilled all of the Old Testament Scriptures and did so without retiring their moral and spiritual authority over us.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 8
Introduction: So let me begin with a brief discussion of the correspondence view of truth and the coherence view of “truths.” Pilate famously asked “what is truth?” when the Incarnate Truth was standing right in front of him (John 18:38). In an analogous way, sophomores and sophists ask what is truth? when the answer is …
[Justifying] “faith is the gift of God, lest any man decide to boast, and as the gift of God, it is the only kind of faith that God efficaciously gives—living faith. As living faith it is also an obedient faith, but only in the sense that the sculpted dust that was to be Adam was obedient when God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. God said live, and so he obediently came to life. The only actions this living and obedient faith perform as the instrument of justification are the actions of resting in and receiving the imputed righteousness of Christ.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 7
