Chapter 9 of the Confession teaches the important biblical doctrine of the total inability of fallen man to do anything spiritually good. Still, this teaching has been widely denied. In this blog, I want to address those objections.
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1689 9:3 Free Will Defined and Defended | Sam Waldron
Though the Confession affirms free will, it affirms the kind of free will that is compatible with the idea that this free will is incapable of any spiritual good.
1689 9:1-5 Free Will Qualified | Sam Waldron
Free will is not a faculty for making random decisions. Such a view actually destroys any meaningful free will.
1689 9:1 Of Free Will | Sam Waldron
Against some “Calvinists” (both contemporary and in the past), we must affirm the free will of man. But we must, while affirming it, also carefully and biblically define it.
1689 8:5 Propitiation | Sam Waldron
Propitiation is the focus of the atonement.
1689 8:5 The Nature of the Atonement | Sam Waldron
The description of Christ’s atoning work as obedience is a powerful argument for the necessity of double imputation and the active obedience of Christ in a day in which both are widely denied.
1689 8:4-10 The Necessity of the Atonement | Sam Waldron
If God is almighty and wanted to save, could He not simply save men without an atonement? This was debated by the Medieval Christian theologians, with Anselm defending the necessity of the atonement and Duns Scotus and Abelard questioning or denying it.
Presuppositional Ponderings after reading Thomas Aquinas | Sam Waldron
Whatever we may think of finding a scholastic methodology in Calvin, we do not find a Thomistic natural theology.
Presuppositional Apologetics: Practical Conclusions | Sam Waldron
“It is a popular misunderstanding that presuppositionalism is opposed to all use of evidences.”
Presuppositional Apologetics: The Testimony of the Holy Spirit to the Self-Authenticating Scripture | Sam Waldron
“The best way to show that Scripture is true is to preach and teach its message boldly.”