Theology That Bites Back
“Paul calls the cup of the Lord’s Supper the cup of blessing. He does so even though a number of the Corinthians were sick or dead because of how they came to it. Uzza was struck down because he got a little too close to the mercy seat. God saved the people from Egypt, but then proceeded to fertilize the wilderness with a good many of them.”.
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 937
“It is a paradigm shift, or a system shift. But not from the pristine WCF to something else, but rather as an attempt to read the WCF as though the democratization of American Christianity had never happened.”.
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 936
“I certainly don’t want to be harsh with the men who talk with us because of the men who won’t! But I have been wading through a lake of this crap for so long I am thinking about buying a boat.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 933
“The tares were not wheat that turned to tares halfway through the process.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 916
“There are sons of Abraham in one sense who are sons of the devil in another sense. There are sons of Sarah in one sense who are sons of Hagar in another sense. There are Christians in one sense who are not Christians in another sense. This is simply a biblical way of speaking, and one which Paul is at pains to both use and defend” (5).
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 915
“If I write that pigs can never fly, I will not take seriously any critique that maintains that I was saying that they can.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 913
“It is not a denial of SOLA FIDE to BELIEVE THE PROMISES.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 903
“We have to remember that regeneration, repentance, faith, justification, and sanctification are not five marbles bonking around in a sack. They are descriptions of what I do, or have done to me. I receive a new heart. I repent. I believe. I have the righteousness of Christ imputed to me. I walk in newness of life. The traditional ordo has limitations, and because of those limitations, it is easy to misrepresent.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 903
“You said that we should not say things like ‘faith is obedience’ without qualification because people will grossly misunderstand. That is quite right, which is why in my post I qualified the heck out of my statements. I qualify my head off. They will carve on my tombstone, ‘He qualified a lot.’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 900
“You should see obedient faith as the only kind of faith that God gives. It is obedient because it is breathing, just like it was told to . . . I do not have any problem saying that ‘a man is justified by obedience [doing what God says to do, the way He says to do it, and what He says to do is believe on Jesus Christ completely] apart from works of the law [disobediently twisting God’s words into a rabbinical pretzel that allows me to feel quite pleased with myself]’ That is not contradictory at all.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 897
