Isaiah’s apocalypse poem does more than tell us who will be saved in the Last Days. It offers perspective on the question of the millennium: when will the Kingdom of God come and how will it appear? As the nations continue to . . . Continue reading →
Eschatology
Christianity Versus Transhumanism
Richard Dawkins displays little knowledge of Christian theology. However, he is spot-on when he summarizes, “Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.” It’s interesting that the pioneers of early modern science were orthodox Christians who were especially allergic to occult forces . . . Continue reading →
A New Old Commentary On The Revelation
The third part of [Christ and His Church-Bride: Meredith G. Kline’s Biblical-Theological Reading of the Book of Revelation] is something quite brilliant: a sort of commentary on Revelation by Meredith Kline. In this section, Olinger did the difficult and tedious work of . . . Continue reading →
What Is Reformed Theology? (Part 13)
In the second petition of the Lord’s Prayer every Christian prays, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:10). This is an implicit recognition that we do not presently live in heaven. Continue reading →
Burying Our Dead In Faith: A Biblical Case Against Cremation
Since the earliest recorded history of the church, God’s people have buried their dead in certain and faithful expectation of the resurrection from the grave. Very recently, however, some Christians have opted to have their own bodies incinerated rather than buried. There . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Protestant Christianity And Spiritual Legitimacy With the Church Fathers | Second Commandment Violations and Church Discipline
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Hodge On Romans 3:25 Against The Limbus Patrum
The word πάρεσις, remission, more strictly means pretermission, a passing by, or overlooking. Paul repeatedly uses the proper term for remission (ἄφεσις,) as in Eph. 1:7, Heb. 9:22, &c.; but the word here used occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Many, therefore, consider the selection of this . . . Continue reading →
Five Reasons To Be Amillennial
Why should Christians—especially those in the Reformed camp—embrace amillennialism over premillennialism or dispensationalism? In this post, I’ll share five compelling reasons that won me over, and I believe they can convince you too. First off, the Old Testament doesn’t breathe a word . . . Continue reading →
Brakel Vs. The Limbus Patrum
Objection #6: “And for this cause He is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance” . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Sacramental Union | Augustine’s Adult Baptism | Acts 15:29 and Blood Sausage
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Olevianus Against The Limbus Patrum
When the creed goes on to say that Christ descended into hell, does that mean that He descended into the limbus, where there is neither joy nor sorrow, so that He might liberate the patriarchs from there? Or does it mean that . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Will the Elect Find Their Way to a Reformed Church? | Besetting Sin: Godly Sorrow vs. Worldly Sorrow
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: When Have We Gone Too Far When Changing Our Doctrinal Understanding? | Romans 2:13, Two Stages of Justification, and Future Justification Through Works
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Was the Covenant of Grace Made with Christ or the Elect? | Should I Change Churches?
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Created For Communion With God: The Promise of Genesis 1 And 2
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John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (4)
Want of a due apprehension of the truth herein hath caused many, especially those of the Church of Rome, to follow after vain imaginations about the state of the souls of the faithful, departed under the Old Testament. Generally, they shut them . . . Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (3)
Those of the church of Rome do hence fancy a limbus, a subterraneous receptacle of souls, wherein they say the spirits of believers under the old testament were detained until after the resurrection of Christ, so as that they without us were . . . Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (2)
It is generally supposed by expositors that it is heaven itself which is hereby intended. Hence some of the ancients, the schoolmen, and sundry expositors of the Roman church, have concluded that no believers under the old testament, none of the ancient . . . Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (1)
And he was their forerunner also. For although I have no apprehension of the “limbus patrum” fancied by the Papists, yet I think the fathers that died under the old testament had a nearer admission into the presence of God upon the . . . Continue reading →
Muller On Beza’s Translation And The Limbus Patrum
Rendering “sheol”: Beza and Acts 2:27. Beza, for example, worried textually and linguistically over the problem of the citation of Psalm 16:8–11 in Acts 2:25–28. Specifically, verse 10 of the Psalm (Acts 2:27) had been used in the church as one of the . . . Continue reading →