We are concerned in this series of articles with the problem of Reformed apologetics. In the first three articles we discussed the general nature of Reformed apologetics. Its method, we saw, is radically different from that of Romanist-evangelical apologetics. The latter starts from the presupposition that man has a measure of ultimacy or autonomy. This […]

According to the Apostle Paul, the fall of man into sin was an historical fact. There was on this earth an actual Adam who at a definite point in history disobeyed God and plunged the human race into an estate of sin and misery. “Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through […]

Hebrews 6:4–6, long considered a very difficult passage, is explained carefully and interestingly by John Vriend, graduate student at the University of Michigan. The burden of this exposition is that those who are within the territory of the Covenant and thus under the discipline of preaching and sacrament ought to “give the more earnest heed […]

One of the principal tenets of modernistic and “critical” scholars is that there are two accounts of creation given in the book of Genesis. This may come as a surprise to the average reader of the Bible. To the average reader the book of Genesis has always appeared to present a remarkable unity. It presents the account […]

Does the first chapter of Genesis teach the doctrine of absolute creation? Did God, according to this remarkable chapter, create all things of nothing? From earliest childhood we have been taught that such was the case. When, even as little children, we looked out upon the beauty of the world round about and unto the glory or […]

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 […]

Two mutually exclusive religions arc contending for mastery in a life and death struggle within the Christian Church today. One of these is the supernatural rede motive religion known as historic Christianity. The other is a religion which denies the genuinely supernatural character of Christianity and which exalts man as his own savior. It is with […]

“Now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he […]

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 […]