The other day my attention was drawn to a post made by a former NSA student, Matt Yonke. That post is here. The reaction to it among some of our TR critics was swift and beside the point — an example can be seen here, if Scott Clark doesn’t do something to break the link once I have put it up. In the light of what is being made of this, I would like to thank Matt for posting this clarification of his comments here. I appreciate it very much. I doubt if our critics will give this the same kind of circulation, or with anything like the same kind of excitement, but there it is. Anyhow, a sincere thank you to Matt.
And while we are on the subject, let me just say two things about slippery slope arguments. First, there are slippery slopes in the world, and people do slide down them sometimes. Secondly, slippery slope arguments are themselves pretty slippery, a fact that is missed amidst all the current assertions that FV leads to Rome. I was actually warned about all this as a baptist — infant baptism leads to Rome. Or take the significant percentage of NSA faculty who have degrees from Westminster Seminary. Westminster degrees lead to FV, and FV, as we all know, leads to Rome. Allowing candle lighters at your wedding leads to Rome.
Fact is, in 1988 I moved to Geneva. Like it here. Bought a house. Plan to stay. But for certain American provincial ecclesiastics, when you glance at a spinning globe, Geneva is near Italy, kinda.