Note: This is the twelfth of a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. As summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Bible teaches that God is “most free, most absolute, working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory…and is […]
Note: This is the eleventh of a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints, which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. The Word “simplicity” occurs four times in the English Bible (2 Sam. 15:11; Rom. 12:8; 2 Cor. 1:12, 11:3) . In none of these does It occur with the sense of “elementary,” as meaning the opposite of “complex.” In each case […]
Note: This is the tenth of a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. The subject of church union is being discussed today perhaps more than at any time since the Reformation. Nor is it merely being discussed, for in recent years a number of unions of various denominations have […]
Note: This is the ninth of a series at articles on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. What and Why is Theology? Theology is the science of God, just as geology is the science of the earth, sociology the science of society and biology the science of living organisms. It is strangely true […]
NOTES: This is the eighth of a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which m-e contrary to orthodox Christianity. Optimistic belief in the power of human progress to produce moral and spiritual betterment is perhaps a typically American attitude. The tremendous development of technology in America, together with the high standard of living that has […]
NOTE: This is the seventh of a series of attitudes on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to Orthodox Christianity. What Is Unitarianism? UNITARIANISM is that religious system which denies that there are three Persons in the Godhead. It holds that there is only […]
By THE REV. J. G. VOS, Th.M. VI. Christianity Without the Cross NOTE: This is the sixth of a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. The Substitutionary Atonement of Christ “The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience and sacrifice of Himself, which He through the eternal Spirit once offered […]
NOTE: This is the fifth in a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. If anything is characteristic of contemporary American Protestantism it is opposition to doctrine. In former times people might be opposed to particular doctrines, such as the doctrine of predestination or the doctrine of hell; but today there […]
NOTE: This is the fifth of a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which arc contrary to orthodox Christianity. Modern Embarrassment About Miracles The attitude of a great deal of modern religion toward miracles is an attitude of embarrassment, if not of doubt or actual denial. It is said that when the Bible was written […]
NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. More than twenty years ago, before I became a Covenanter, I heard my pastor preach a sermon in which he advocated support of the foreign missionary enterprise on the ground that it furthers American foreign […]