“For Spurgeon, it seemed impossible to serve—or to even conceive the idea of a changing God. Spurgeon writes: ‘I could no more think of a changing God, than I could of a round square, or any other absurdity.'”
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1689 9:1-5 Common Objections to Free Will | Sam Waldron
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.
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.
The Distinctiveness of the Ten Commandments | Tom Hicks
Are believers in Christ required to obey any part of Old Testament law, or is all Old Testament law abolished? Some theologies insist the Old Testament law is one and that the Bible never acknowledges any division among Old Testament law. I offer the following critique that perpsective.
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.
The Meaning of Baptism, Part 1 | Ron Miller
The sacraments are God’s visible word. What our ears hear in the new covenant gospel promises, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper portray for our other senses, especially our eyes. We see God’s promises in a symbol form in the sacraments.