"Human language is necessarily inadequate whenever men speak about God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. But there is creaturely inadequacy, a holy limitation, revealed in virtually every word of Scripture, and then there is an impudent inadequancy. The thing which … [Read more...]

"When a biblical vision of the living God is given to us, human imagination staggers, and human reason lies prostrate on the floor. Isaiah is undone, a man of unclean lips, and Moses is hidden in the cleft of the rock so that he will not be dissolved. In the revelation of Himself … [Read more...]

[Speaking of God as the universal playwright] "But using the illustration of a play is offensive to us. We say that Hamlet is a fictional character, whereas we are real. It is not a good comparison, we mutter, but notice where and why we take offense. We are much greater than … [Read more...]

[Speaking of Albert Barnes' exegesis of the 2nd psalm] "The Bible tells us that God's displeasure will be great. The literal expression refers to heat or burning, as when one is inflamed with anger. The Openness theologians would say that this is an expression of God's anger and … [Read more...]

"When folks, even learned folks, actually, especially learned folks, start discovering that what the Bible has been saying all along is reawlly what we here in our own day have only just recently discovered, they are just half a step away from saying that it does not really … [Read more...]

"So the way of salvation can be found not in affirming the truths of orthodoxy with a long face, but rather by coming to see and know that the words of God are life itself. They are refined gold, they are honey to the lips, they are aged wine, they summon us to a banquet in the … [Read more...]

"Orthodoxy requires all our faculties, our reason, our imagination, our bodily habits, our affections. Straight thinking is inconsistent with crooked lives. Faith without works is dead; stories without dragons are boring; worship is a matter of sound doctrine and well-cooked meat … [Read more...]

[Speaking of 2 Pet. 3:15-16] "The word translated as wrest here is streblao, which refers to putting something on the rack and twisting it out of all recognition. Of course, those who are occupied in this activity do not themselves describe it this way. They do not advertise … [Read more...]

"And thus, orthodoxy means straight belief or correct opinion. Who could be against this, one wonders. As it turns out, no one is against it -- every man affirms that what he maintains is the truth. Every person in the world, all day long, every day, thinks he's right. Even those … [Read more...]

"Disobedience to God's law blurs the antithsis between white and off-white. We must not resist anything because of what we see following it -- the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. At the same time, the Bible tells us the world is filled with consequences for evil actions and … [Read more...]