Let Each Esteem the Other Better

Having spent time in a number of different kinds of churches/denominations over the years, it has been my observation that in every group there are those with a healthy catholic attitude toward other Christians and also those with a proud and condescending attitude toward others who call themselves Christians.
If we are going to follow the [...]

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All Men Will Know You are My Disciples if . . .

I remember about two things out of Edersheim’s giant 63-million page The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. One of the two things I remember is that he says that a common saying that was abroad in the first century world was, “No one can hate like a Jew…” That seems to [...]

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The Invisible Church Contains Hypocrites

The BHrethren might be interested in this post I wrote on my personal blog which disagrees with John Gerstner’s understanding on the Church.  Amid all the discussion of eschatology and hypercalvinism and how the visible church may properly be called the body of Christ, I completely overlooked how Gerstner’s reasoning actually condemns the Westminster definition [...]

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On Becoming a True Judge

How does one become a true judge?
There are two trees in the Garden. One must first eat of the Tree of Life, which is purely a tree of grace, a gift.  This is a tree that one has done nothing to deserve, and one must eat perhaps for a long time to become mature and [...]

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What’s the Difference?

In a recent interview evangelical theologian Robert Saucy summarized his view of the primary theological differences between Catholics and Protestants in the following way:
Q. What are the differences between Roman Catholics and Protestants? A. They’re the same as they were at the Reformation. There are three significant ones. First is the question of final authority. [...]

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A Reply on the Nature of the Psalter

Mr. Johnson,
In fact I wrote a long post trying to take your misgivings, and then it was lost because that Jeff Meyers guy had turned off comments! Well, c’est la vie. I’ll put this up there as a “new essay.”
I just put up that first essay (#29 in a series) because I’d made some math [...]

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Psalms 23-29

Psalms 23-29: Analysis
This is the donation thank-you essay for January 2008. Our studies in the Psalms go out month by month in response to donations. I’m putting this one up here as an example, and also because the version I actually mailed out contained several egregious arithmetical errors! So, here is the corrected version. 
We rendered [...]

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A wrong word here, an inappropriate term there. . .

. . . and the whole thing gets muddled. The words we traditionally use to translate Hebrew terms in the “sacrificial” system are confusing and often convey the wrong ideas. If we are going to understand Leviticus and the old world system of sacrifices and offerings, the first thing we have to do [...]

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New Biblical Horizons Store

Introducing the Biblical Horizons Store
For many years, the Biblical Horizons ministry has offered books, essays, and tapes on biblical theology, ecclesiology and liturgics, studies in biblical chronology, and more. Now these materials are available online in the new Biblical Horizons store. Here’s a sampling of items you’ll find:
* Tapes of Biblical Horizons conferences from 1991 [...]

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One Baptism for the Remission of Sins

One of the indications of the way in which a phrase from the Nicene Creed would have been ‘heard’ in the ancient Church is to look at other sources that speak to the same issues the Creed addresses. When it comes to ‘one baptism for the remission of sins’, consider the following inscription on a [...]

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