UPDATE 29 June 2009Madoff received a sentence of 150 years in prison today. Original story 8 May 2009The investors in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme received higher than average returns. Most of those who invested with Madoff had no idea how he was able . . . Continue reading →
Defense of the Faith
How Do We Know the Bible is True and Authoritative?
Editor’s Note: Posted originally on the Old HB September 14, 2007 Christopher wrote to discussion list to ask how we know the Bible is true and how our appeal to the internal testimony of the Spirit is different from the Mormon “burning in . . . Continue reading →
How to Respond to the JWs at Your Door
I found this in the library yesterday. It’s fine piece of work from 1967 by Robert Countess on the use of the Colwell Rule for understanding the text of John 1:1, “and the Word was God…..” As you know the Jehovah’s Witnesses . . . Continue reading →
Hell: Separation from the Comfortable Presence of God
Martin explains.
Kuyper on Scripture
Andrew is reading Kuyper
Has Christ Returned?
Roger writes to ask: I’ve been having discussions lately with a fellow who identifies himself as non-violent Anabaptist. He denies he is Emergent, but I’m not so sure. He is very involved in non-violent struggle against ‘the system’ – meaning capitalism and . . . Continue reading →
Was Jesus the First Christian?
The old liberals tried to make Jesus into a Christian—as the moralists have always done and continue to do. RESOURCES Subscribe To The Heidelblog! Download the HeidelApp on Apple App Store or Google Play The Heidelblog Resource Page Heidelmedia Resources The Ecumenical . . . Continue reading →
Willimon Reviews Ehrman on Theodicy
In the Christian Century (HT: Mike Horton). Willimon: “This book seems an awful lot of fuss to reach so banal a destination.”
The Gospel in History
Your weekly Machen fix.
There Are Ways to Criticize Rome
and there are ways not to criticize Rome. It behooves us to know the difference.
Hyper-Calvinism, Rationalism, and Anti-Predestinarians
By definition, “hyper-Calvinism” is that doctrine which goes “beyond” (hyper) Calvin. Often, however, it is used incorrectly by critics of predestination to describe anyone who believes in reprobation. If teaching reprobation makes one “hyper-Calvinist” then Calvin would be “hyper-Calvinist” and that’s just . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Muether on Van Til–the CTC Interview
Here. This is a terrific interview about an even better book. If you haven’t read this book, I hope you will. There are many Van Til partisans and critics who have not understood Van Til in his historical-cultural-ecclesiastical context. Further, as Muether . . . Continue reading →
Beale on Inerrancy
Ben gives us a heads up about an important forthcoming book.
Shooting Wasps in the Water Tank
When I was a kid, visiting my grandfather’s farm, we used to go stand at the backdoor of the bunkhouse and plink the wasps that hovered above the water tanks in the corral behind the bunkhouse. It wasn’t very challenging but it . . . Continue reading →
Rome Re-Thinks Limited Inerrancy?
Or maybe not. Collin Hansen explains.
God, Philosophers, and Evil
David writes to ask about how to answer a friend who is “struggling with Calvinism” because “he has not heard an explanation of the Fall (and ultimately reprobation) that goes beyond the idea of a ‘blessed fall.’ In other words, he has . . . Continue reading →
Steve Baugh Reviews Sparks' "God's Words"
At Ref21
Whence Liberalism and What to Do About It
Right now we’re battling ants. To fight them one must follow the trail back to the nest. Martin does just that with certain sorts of theological pests. One remedy is to insist that ministers hold to (subscribe) a confession of faith fully . . . Continue reading →
Kline and Enns
Lane has helpful clarification here.
A Defense of the Field Committee Report
From Lane Tipton in the Ordained Servant.