Is the New Covenant made exclusively with the faithful (elect) or does it include hypocrites, too?
Archive for the ‘Hermeneutics’ Category
Hypocrites in the New Covenant?
Posted in Baptism, Bible, Hermeneutics, Infant Baptism, Personal Development, Positive Attitude, Relationships, Soteriology, Theology, tagged apostasy, Covenant Theology, Hermeneutics, hypocrites, Personal Development, Salvation, Scripture, theology on August 1, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Tug o’ War o’er Moses
Posted in Bible, Hermeneutics, Personal Development, Relationships, Theology, tagged Covenant Theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Hermeneutics, law gospel hermeneutic, Meredith Kline, Michael Horton, Mosaic Covenant, Moses, Personal Development, Reformed, Scripture, theology, two kingdoms on July 26, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I got some questions about how certain covenant theologians handle the Mosaic covenant. Let’s discuss this, shall we?
Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel
Posted in Arminianism, Bible, Calling, Calvinism, Hermeneutics, Personal Development, Preaching, Soteriology, Theology, tagged Arminianism, atonement, Calvinism, Evangelism, Historical theology, Personal Development, Preaching, Reformed, Salvation, Scripture, theology on May 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Addressing a common misunderstandings about Calvinism: 1) we do smile, and 2) we teach that “whosoever will” is part of the preaching of the Gospel. Come see how… I bet you’ll smile (like Calvinists do).
Uh-Oh! I’ve Caused Embarrassment… again.
Posted in Arminianism, Bible, Calvinism, Hermeneutics, Personal Development, Soteriology, Theology, tagged Arminianism, atonement, Calvinism, Hermeneutics, limited atonement, particular redemption, Personal Development, Reformed, Salvation, Scripture, theology on May 27, 2011 | 31 Comments »
My *list* of texts from which Calvinists have historically drawn the doctrine of particular redemption has embarrassed my friend, Billy Birch. Let’s see if I can’t sort this out.
Mad Magazine and “Limited Atonement”
Posted in Arminianism, Bible, Calvinism, Hermeneutics, Personal Development, Soteriology, Theology, tagged Arminianism, atonement, Calvinism, limited atonement, particular redemption, Personal Development, Scripture, theology on May 26, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Does the Bible *teach* that Christ died for a specific group of people, or are we just making it up as we go along?
Don’t Ignore the Bible, Mr. Camping
Posted in American Church, Bible, Eschatology, Hermeneutics, History, Personal Development, Theology, tagged church history, end of the world, Harold Camping, History, Personal Development, Reformed Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Scripture, theology on May 21, 2011 | 13 Comments »
When Christians take leave of the authority of the Bible, they end up doing super dumb stuff… Harold Camping is the most recent example.
“All” in 1 Timothy 2
Posted in Arminianism, Bible, Calvinism, Hermeneutics, History of Redemption, Personal Development, Soteriology, Theology, Trinity, Worship, tagged Arminianism, Calvinism, Christology, Personal Development, Reformed, Salvation, Scripture, theology, worship on April 6, 2011 | 117 Comments »
An analysis of 1 Timothy chapter 2 – a response to an Arminian friend.
Problems with ‘Limited’ Immutability
Posted in Bible, Hermeneutics, Personal Development, Theology, tagged immutability, Personal Development, Reformed Catholicism, theology on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In which we explore the concept of “limited” immutability, which has both exegetical and logical problems.
A “Literal” Hermeneutic
Posted in American Church, Bible, Christology, Doctrine of Scripture, Hermeneutics, Personal Development, Theology, tagged Christology, Historical theology, Personal Development, Scripture, theology on October 7, 2010 | 8 Comments »
How “literalism” simply cannot handle the Bible on the Bible’s terms. The richness of the Bible is far too great for that narrow hermeneutic.
Concerning ‘Literal’ Interpretation
Posted in American Church, Hermeneutics, Personal Development, Reformation, Theology, tagged Dispensationalism, Hermeneutics, Historical theology, Personal Development, Reformed, Scripture, theology on September 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Here we have an introduction to “hermeneutics,” and a brief historical examination of a theory of interpretation called “literalism,” which is associated with Dispensationalism.
