This year (1976) THE OUTLOOK: (formerly TORCH AND TRUMPET) is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. The first issue was for April-May 1951. In commemoration of this occasion it has been decided that each issue during 1976 is to carry one or more reprints from the issues of that first year, 1951. At the time he wrote this […]
One often hears expressed openly or by implication that references in the Bible to natural phenomena are not necessarily correct, since the Bible reflects the views of the people living at the time it was written. It is said in defense of this view that the people living at the time the Bible was written […]
The godless believe that all of the cosmos, including the solar system, the earth, and all living forms happened by chance. So man also is a product of chance evolvement from amoeba to segmented flatworm, to tree shrew, to ape, to homo sapiens, who by reason of his scientific know-how will evolve to a higher […]
III. “New Evangelicalism” – The Old Dualism? 1. Proposition. The neo-evangelical understanding of the relationship between the Bible as the special revelation of God and science as the legitimate investigation of his general (natural) revelation in the works of creation and providence closely resembles the dualistic thought of Thomas Aquinas, the medieval scholastic who gave […]
I. Introduction – New Departure in the Study of Scripture Within recent years, there appears to have developed a trend in evangelical Christian circles towards a new attitude to Scripture. It is thought by some to indicate a shift away from the orthodox Reformed doctrine of Scripture.1 This trend is characterized by a move from […]
Perhaps the most important question being asked in Reformed churches today is, What is the nature of the Bible? It is not that we do not know why the Bible exists. We believe the Bible tells us why it exists. Concerning its own existence, the Bible teaches that before the fall God revealed himself to […]
It should be a matter of grave concern to Reformed believers that the doctrines and ideas of non-Christian theoretical thought seek to challenge the authority of the Bible at all pOints. Our covenant children are particularly vulnerable to these challenges, for anti-Christian thought is continually presented in colleges and universities in all fields of study. Because […]
In discussing the legal aspects of the practice of artificial insemination, it should be observed, in the first place, that although the process of artificial insemination (hereafter referred to in this article as AI) is not a new one in the medical field, to the law and the lawyer it is an innovation involving new concepts, with […]
The practice of artificial insemination may be approached from various angles. It has a medical or biological aspect. Then again it raises legal questions, and the act itself as well as the status of the child thus born must be considered. In addition there certainly is it religious or ethical side to the subject and one must ask […]
Although the scientific questions of our age and of all ages do not touch the central truth of the Christian Gospel: “that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,” we must nevertheless recognize the fact that the changes which have occurred in our ideas concerning the universe have resulted in changes in our thought of […]