2017 Archive

Grammar Guerilla: Kirk Douglas On “Feel Bad” v “Feel Badly” And More Feelings

by on April 10, 2017 | 1 Comment
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Thanks to H. H. Fowler’s reincarnation on Twitter for this very clear explanation of the distinction between an adverb and an adjective: Kirk Douglas is right. Badly is an adverb. To “feel badly” means that one’s sense perception is damaged. To “feel . . . Continue reading →

F. F. Bruce On The Colossian Heresy

by on April 9, 2017

Basically, their teaching seems to have been Jewish. This appears from the part played in it by legal ordinances, circumcision, food regulations, the sabbath, new moon and other prescriptions of the Jewish calendar. But it was not the more straightforward Judaism against . . . Continue reading →

“Biased Facts,” Objective Reality, The Reformation, And The Resurrection

by on April 6, 2017 | 4 Comments

A few days ago someone, somewhere on social media, in objection to something I wrote, used the arresting expression “biased facts.” I learned from the Dutch Reformed philosophical theologian Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) that there are no such things as uninterpreted facts . . . Continue reading →

Was Herman Witsius A Federal Visionist?

by on April 1, 2017 | 10 Comments

One of the distinctive errors of the self-described Federal Vision theology is the doctrine that, in baptism, all the benefits of the covenant of grace are conferred temporarily and conditionally.1 Thus, they claim, there is such a thing as a “covenantal” (temporary, . . . Continue reading →