Scott Clark is responding to the FV statement also, which can be found here. In this post, he compares us to terrorists, among other things. “Will the PCA signatories really submit to the judgment of the presbyteries or will they flee to the waiting and willing arms of that woman of easy virtue in Moscow?” …
Demonstrating Confessional Integrity
Greenbaggins has begun interacting with the FV statement, and if I may say so, he begins well. He notes first that we claim to be in harmony with the Reformed confessions, and he says that he will assume us to be so unless it is proven otherwise. Secondly, he recognizes the defined scope of the …
Continued Rejection of Westminster
The next issue of Credenda is going to be addressing the whole issue of the Federal Vision, and in that issue you will find a statement of convictions signed by some of the leading participants in this conversation — we have released that document early so you can take a look at it here. For …
RC Sr. Denies the Gospel
I am listening to the August message of the month from Ligonier, where RC Sr. is talking about the Noahic covenant. Imagine how I felt when I heard him say that the distinction between the “covenant of works” and the “covenant of grace” was somewhat “artificial” and even “superficial.” Imagine further how I felt when …
Cultivate That Soil
This week and next we are going to be talking a good deal about money, and there is no subject on which Americans deceive themselves more easily than this one. We careen between two extremes. The first is to plunge headlong into the cascading waterfall of material goods that our economy produces, whooping and hollering …
Greenbaggins Does Too Take an Exception
Under the heading of “No Exceptions,” Lane has responded to my last post this way: I do not take any exceptions to the Westminster Confession of Faith. Wilson conveniently forgot to mention WCF 28.5, when he argues that I need to take an exception to the Standards: ‘Although it be a great sin to contemn …
What It Must Have Meant
One more and I am caught up in my exchanges with Greenbaggins. But before answering the questions he raises about my chapter on baptism, I think it is important to address a question raised in the comments of my previous post. “You make it sound like you’re boys playing king of the dirt pile. Say …
Greenbaggins Takes an Exception
And in his latest response to my response, Lane says this in the course of his continued discussion of Warfield. “Regeneration can happen before baptism, during baptism, or after baptism. Therefore, it is not dependent on baptism.” This really gets at the crux of the matter between us, and it illustrates why I believe that …
Sanctions and the Sacrament
I believe that this next interaction with Greenbaggins promises to be pretty helpful. He is still critiquing the tenth chapter of RINE. “In other words, for Wilson, the objective nature of baptism means that all people who are baptized come into the same relationship to the covenant, in this sense: that they are all under …
Great Things for Your Kingdom
Father and God, we thank You and praise You for all Your goodness to us, and we thank You for all Your kindness to us throughout the week. We ask You to bless this arriving Lord’s Day as well, and ask that You would accomplish great things for Your kingdom on the foundation of worship …