Harry Boer is a heretic to the extent that he asserts that the Bible has errors and in that he contradicts the Bible, the Belgic Confession (Article V) and the 1959 Christian Reformed Synod. Several consistories should protest, and through proper ecclesiastical procedure should forbid him from publicly or privately denying the inerrancy of the […]
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE by William Hendriksen; 1122 pages, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich.; $13.98. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. A commentator of the caliber of William Hendriksen comes along not once in a generation but more likely only once in a century. Just scanning, and here and there dipping into, The Gospel of […]
Dr. Palmer, frequent contributor to THE OUTLOOK, is Executive Secretary of the New International Version of the Bible which has just been published in its entirety. He headed a large number of evangelical scholars who have worked for a dozen years to produce this careful translation in modern English which is now getting a wide […]
We were on a trolley in Prague, going to the house of Vladimir,* a Czechoslovakian whom we had casually met at the site where the Nazis had murdered some Czech resistance fighters. As we passed the drab buildings, he said to us in German: “A land without laughter.” This summed up what we felt from the […]
Dr. Edwin H. Palmer of Wayne, New Jersey, is a Christian Reformed minister. He has served as pastor of CRC churches in Michigan (Spring Lake, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids), has taught at Westminster Theological Seminary, and is presently serving as Executive Secretary of the New International Version of the Bible (New York International Bible […]
DR. DE KOSTER QUESTIONS DR. PALMER’S DECLARATION ABOUT THE BIBLE Dear Editor: I found myself as astounded as I think the “liberal” mind was delighted by Dr. E. H. Palmer’s flat declaration, in the January, 1977, issue of TilE OUTLOOK, as foHows: “To be very clear, let me assert with all the force that is […]
Dr. Edwin Palmer of Wayne, New Jersey, a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, is presently serving as the Executive Secretary of the New International Version of the Bible (New York International Bible Society). His telling reply in this article to Editor De Koster’s repeated attacks in The Banner on Lindsell’s The Battle for the […]
Pointed and lucid, this article gives clear and unambiguous answers to the questions being asked about abortion. Dr. Edwin H. Palmer, a CRC minister, is the Executive Secretary of the New International Version of the Bible (New York Bible Society International). 1. Question: Why, if the state does not forbid the use of contraceptives to […]
Dr. Edwin H. Palmer of Wayne, New Jersey herewith presents the second and concluding installment of his article on Abortion: the Crucial Issue. Dr. Palmer is the Executive Secretary for the Committee on Bible Translation of the New York Bible Society. Following are two more common arguments advanced for easier abortion laws: 7. The population […]
The crucial issue in the matter of abortion is this: Is the unborn child the image of God or not? Is he a human with an eternal destiny, or is he a mere glob a bit of tissue? Is he an individual distinct from his mother, or is he a part of the mother, like […]