In a comments thread over at Greenbaggins, Jason Stellman says this: “And lastly, I do find it interesting that I can’t seem to ellicit a response from a Federal Visionist that doesn’t mention Scott Clark. If you all insist on complaining about being lumped together (which sometime you unfairly are), then you should stop doing …
Bells On His Jacket
Scott Clark appears to be auguring in. First, he complains about someone on the URC list who received a request from China to have the Federal Vision statement translated into Chinese. Clark was displeased with the fellow on the list who then arranged for it. “. . . a post from China asking for a …
Westminster 28.6
Greenbaggins attempts to answer my challenges on Westminster 28.6 here. Before engaging with that response, let me say express some disappointment that Lane also says that this will be his “final statement on it.” When it comes to the efficacy of baptism, I get to have the last word. The problem with this is that …
The Whole Schebeal
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 …
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 …