The Gloomy Doctrine of Universal Atonement
People say that Calvinism is a dour, hard creed. How broad and comforting, they say, is the doctrine of a universal atonement,
View ArticleRegeneration Precedes Faith
Why do some people repent and respond by faith in Christ to the divine summons to faith while others do not? Concerning
View ArticleThe Immutability of God
There was no change in the Divine nature of the Son, when he assumed human nature. There was an union of the
View ArticleKenosis Theory
Even those who are most zealous to defend the altogether transcendent mystery of the Incarnation and the true deity and the true
View ArticlePermission or Causality?
There are the theological problems implicit in Pinnock’s quasi-deistic description of God’s relationship to human actions as being that of “bare permissionism.”
View ArticleCalvin Against the Full Preterists…Again.
I have been listening to an excellent audio version of John Calvin’s The Institutes of the Christian Religion. Today, i listened to Calvin’s
View ArticleThe Duty of Magistrates
The duty of magistrates, its nature, as described by the word of God, and the things in which it consists, I will
View ArticleThe Sovereignty of God
Sovereignty is not a property of the divine nature, but a prerogative arising out of the perfections of the Supreme Being. If
View ArticleThe Justification of Knowledge
It is an epistemological axiom that unless there is comprehensive knowledge of all things somewhere there can be no knowledge anywhere. This
View ArticleWhy Study Systematic Theology?
It may naturally be asked, why not take the truths as God has seen fit to reveal them, and thus save ourselves
View ArticleResolution on Full Preterism by the RPCGA
The 2010 General Assembly of the Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly does hereby adopt the following position concerning the unorthodox eschatological doctrine of Full
View ArticleWhat is God?
ANSWER: God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. OF THE NATURE AND
View ArticleCan Men Who Err Write a Bible that Doesn’t?
The charge of biblical docetism has been leveled against advocates of inerrancy, most notably by Karl Barth. He accuses us of holding
View ArticleResolution on Justification by the RPCGA
PREAMBLE, AFFIRMATIONS AND DENIALS OF THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, CONCERNING THE DOCTRINES OF BIBLICAL REVELATION, COVENANT OF WORKS, COVENANT OF GRACE, JUSTIFICATION,
View ArticleHow many persons are there in the Godhead?
ANSWER: There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God,
View ArticleDoes a Change in Law Imply a Change in God?
A change of laws by God argues no change in God, when God abrogates some laws which he had settled in the
View ArticleA Man Will Judge the World
Sub-Titled: How to defeat hyper-preterism (aka full-preterism) in less than a minute. “Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that
View ArticleSeven Effects of the Fall
By this sin, [our first parents] fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and
View ArticleGod Makes It All Happen
One of the dominant concepts in Western culture for the past two hundred years, as we saw in the previous chapter, is
View ArticleA Ransom for All
Paul’s statement “Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all [πάντων, pantōn],” must be interpreted in harmony with his earlier
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