The joining of the church and the world in America has been years in the making. The American churchgoer was trained to view the church as having the sole purpose of making people happy, commonly labeled as moralistic therapeutic deism. Whatever struggle . . . Continue reading →
Author Archives: R. Scott Clark
The So-Called “Celestial Flesh” Christology Is Just Gnosticism
But, according to [the Gnostics], neither was the Word made flesh, nor Christ, nor the Saviour (Soter), who was produced from [the joint contributions of] all [the Æons]. For they will have it, that the Word and Christ never came into this . . . Continue reading →
Why Does It Take So Long To Explain Infant Baptism?
Yesterday someone commented on one of the BigSocialMedia platforms that the Heidelcast series, “I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children” helped them to understand and accept infant baptism (paedobaptism) as the biblical position. Someone else objected, in effect, . . . Continue reading →
Religious Freedom Watch: Federal District Court Upholds Religious Liberty For Physicians Against Obamacare Rule
In these consolidated cases, a coalition of entities affiliated with the Catholic Church and the State of North Dakota challenge the implementation of Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), a statute that prohibits certain forms of discrimination . . . Continue reading →
Interested In A URCNA Church Plant In The Eastern USA?
Contact info. NB: A Classis is a regional assembly of Reformed churches. It is a Latin word that originally referred to a fleet of ships. The Presbyterians say essentially the same thing with the word Presbytery Resources How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck: Grace Does Not Destroy Nature
Regeneration does not erase individuality, personality or character, Continue reading →
Why Do Confessional Presbyterian Churches Use Images Of Christ?
The Westminster Larger Catechism (a constitutional doctrinal standard of the PCA) in answer to question 109 says sins forbidden by the Second Commandment include “making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our . . . Continue reading →
Thinking Of Planting A Confessional Reformed Church On The Plains?
It is not easy to plant a confessional Reformed congregation on the American Plains (the area of the USA from the between the Rockies and the Mississippi River, from Canada to Mexico). In some places it is sparsely populated. The confessional Presbyterian . . . Continue reading →
Owen Gives Us Theological Reasons To Object To Intinction
2. The special object of faith, as justifying, is not the special object of faith in this ordinance. The special object of faith, as justifying, is the promise, and Christ in the promise, in general, as “the Saviour of sinners:” so when . . . Continue reading →
Herman Witsius Contra Intinction
XXV. Next follow the actions of the disciples, and consequently of the other guests. And these, according to Christ’s appointment, are three: first, to receive both the bread and the cup; but each separately, for so Christ distributed them: in this manner . . . Continue reading →
Network Stations Stand By
Heidelcast episode 172 is coming later today, Dv.
Christ’s Death And Ours (Isa 52:13–53:12; Heidelberg 40–44)
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What Is Your Only Comfort In Life And In Death?
What is your only comfort in life and in death?
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What If The Roman Communion Had No State Or Bank?
This past Thursday, senior figures associated with what Rome calls the “Institute for Religious Works” (known to the rest of the world as the Vatican Bank) were convicted, in a scheme worthy of the Mafia, of money laundering and embezzlement. Remarkably, they . . . Continue reading →
Orwell: On Opposing Hitler At The Price Of Accepting Stalin
Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin. Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial . . . Continue reading →
New Resource Page: On The Threefold Division Of The Law
The early Christian theologians implicitly distinguished within the 613 Mosaic Commandments (as the rabbis numbered them) between the judicial, ceremonial, and moral law. The moral law refers to the natural law, the law issued in creation and symbolized by the commandment not . . . Continue reading →
From A Former Insider: How Cosmo Sold The Lie Of The Sexual Revolution To Middle America
Before Facebook Cosmo Made You A Commodity
Ps. Rome is not your home. Resources How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia How to support Heidelmedia: use the donate button below Heidelblog Resources Heidelmedia Resources On Roman Catholicism Two Dark Sides Of The Sexual Revolution (UPDATED) Reno: Consequences Of The Institutionalization Of . . . Continue reading →
Of QAnon, Calvin, And the LA Times
It is a deep animus that would seek to tie John Calvin (1509–1564) to the QAnon-fueled wackos who stormed the American capitol earlier this month but that is what Richard Hughes tries to do in a recent editorial in the Los Angeles . . . Continue reading →
Luther Challenges The (Ana)Baptist Interpretation Of Mark 16:16
In the third place, it is said, as I also have read, that they base their faith on this verse, “He who believes and is baptized will be saved” [Mark 16:16]. This they interpret to mean that no man should be baptized . . . Continue reading →
Calvin: Circumcision Was Spiritual And Substantially Identical To Baptism
But since before baptism was instituted God’s people had circumcision instead, let us examine how these two signs differ from each other, and in what respects they are alike. From this will appear the anagogic relationship of the one to the other. . . . Continue reading →