Archive for the ‘Holy Scripture’ Category
Pure religion and undefiled
Posted in Holy Scripture on November 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
The golden chain
Posted in Holy Scripture, The Decrees & Federal Theology on October 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Make me to understand
Posted in Holy Scripture on October 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Are ye so foolish?
Posted in Holy Scripture on September 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
All secrets will be disclosed
Posted in Holy Scripture on March 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Justice and judgment
Posted in Holy Scripture, Uncategorized on January 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Your names are written in heaven!
Posted in Holy Scripture on December 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Enter not into judgment with thy servant
Posted in Holy Scripture on December 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Biblical progression & culture reform
Posted in Biblical Interpretation, Holy Scripture on June 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
“We would appeal, in this connection – progressiveness – specially to the practical and practicable character of Old-Testament legislation. And thus we are led to assert that those very passages concerning polygamy and kindred themes (which have been made an occasion of gibe against the Scriptures) are themselves a most cogent argument for their divine origin. We Americans ought to know by this time that the best way to secure polygamy unharmed and enshrine it unconquerably under the protection of a nation is to write on the statute-books inoperative laws against it. The Bible was framed by too wise a statesman to fall into that error, and we who enjoy Christian homes to-day have to thank God for it. The unspeakable wisdom of dealing at that age, and under those circumstances, with polygamy, divorce, slavery by regulative laws, which in regulating discouraged, and in discouraging destroyed them, makes strongly for a superhuman origin of the legislation.”
– B. B. Warfield
Thomas, a proto-Protestant?
Posted in Holy Scripture, Protestantism & Romanism on January 30, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Thomas was in some respects a forerunner of Protestantism. Can contemporary Romanists make such a claim, relativizing tradition and exalting the authority of Scripture? Methinks not:
“Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): “Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning.”
-Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1.1.8
West Port Experiment 