In context, these words sound murderous: “Neither does the baby elephant watching his community/ Be devastated for ivory” I’d like to think the writer just slipped up thinking of generally bad things to put in her poem without meaning to make that sort of comparison…
Monthly Archives: May 2007
When Turretin says good works are “necessary” to salvation “as means” to an end, that is like saying a tail is necessary to a cat eating fish? The writer is correct, I don’t understand his “logic” at all. I’ll stick with the “weasel words” of the Westminster Standards, thank you.
Some astute (though obvious) observations about the “Federal Vision”
Common sense is too uncommon to let these go unlinked:
links for 2007-05-30
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More youtube stuff
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Regarding misrepresentations of Wright: deafening. David reports being rebuked for asking Wright about his own views rather than backing the NH smear.
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More on how we steal from third worlders to put corporate America on make-work welfare to the tune of billions of taxpayers’ dollars (OK, that last part was just me, not the post)
Hey, if someone wants to really talk about Reformed heresy, then lets talk
I’m cool with that. Here we go:
- Nestorianism — Gordon Clark; see witnesses here and here.
- Pantheism — Creation ex nihilo is untrue. Rather, creation must be ex deo, a “modification of divine being.” Who taught this? John Gerstner in his “handout theology” which is still sold by Ligonier Ministries. I heard Gerstner teach this and, I notice through Google that I am not the only one (here and here or here; to their credit, the consensus of the Puritanboard was to reject it).
- Merit legalism — John Gerstner, according to Brian Schwertley, taught that our good works were meritorious before God.
OK so what do we find here? Two things stick out.
- What has historically caused the Church to call for international councils and a great schism in the Western Church, barely raises an eyebrow in the modern (I’m tempted to capitalize the adjective) Evangelical Reformed subculture. To even find someone bothering to mention the issue requires a search for blogs and bulletin boards. I’ve not found any official church teaching on it by any denominational entity.
- Behold how gently, how gently, the critics handle the teachings of these men. The gulf between their attitudes toward real, bona fide heresies and teachers of heresies in comparison to how others are treated…. What can I say? Doug Wilson is now persona non grata despite years of writing for TableTalk but Gerstner is still actively promoted?
Just look at that picture of Heath Ledger! Does it not take your breath away? I have many regrets but my batman fanboyism is vindicated more and more as time goes by.
The internet monk has some great thoughts on the widespread ignorance of the Gospel, and how this is spread by some of the Gospel’s shrillest self-appointed defenders. His comment about he PCA made me lol.
I’ve edited my thoughts on “Lane v. Jeff”
They are in parenthesis with links to his post about me. The only thing that bears any special interest is under points 25 and 26. Lane testifies that the committee wants to withhold information from those who question the report so that they can surprise people at the General Assembly. More of the “living document” issue.
…wasted on the young
No, this was not its longest. The fact that my bangs don’t hang over my eyes or reach from the center of my forehead to my ears, tells you that I’m becoming rather tame at this point.
Is it embarrassing?
No, this is really embarrassing! God forgive the fanboy sins of my youth.
PS: And by the way, Chris always looked clean cut and conservative… so there! 😉
To condemn Roman Catholicism over “…the Pope, the importance of Mary, and images,” means “making much ado about relatively insignificant differences, and certainly nothing worthy of schism”? Repudiating idolatry was nonessential to the Reformation? Are you kidding me? We now actively encourage Roman Catholics to believe this?