Josh Sommer
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Gifted brother at GRBC, Lancaster, CA. Visit: http://grbcav.org. Graduate of Spurgeon College - MBTS. Research interests—theological anthropology & the virtues.
Are there *really* many gods?
IS GOD ONE? . . . The question is not whether there are many Gods so called (legomenōs) (according to the absurd and false opinion of men which prevails among the heathen). Rather the question is whether there are more than one in reality and as to essence. The question is not…
Lots of Christian virtue here👇
“Keep the walls of separation as low as possible, and shake hands over them as often as you can. But do not dream that you will ever get the walls down. It is too late.” - J.C. Ryle
Conference on Of Justification, So Cal, Nov, two Renihans, Tom Hicks, Steve Meister, VanDrunen scrbpc.org
Those individuals who look to publicly assert their niche reading of the Scriptures upon the assumption that the 2LCF sanctions such behavior, given the primacy of Scripture, should recall the following: 1) The 1677/89 was a churchly project; commissioned and adopted by the…
I wrote this article last year attempting to show that the context of Genesis 6 requires the "sons of God" to be men rather than angelic beings. This is not a "materialistic" view, nor is it a modern view. It's based on the context of the biblical passage itself. As Augustine…
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The scope of Scriptural sufficiency is specified. An application of Scriptural sufficiency that stretches beyond this scope is an abuse of God’s Word.
“A doctrine of the church is only as good as the doctrine of God which underlies it.” - John Webster
A human person is a substantial unity of body and soul. Body is matter. Soul is form. This synolonic unity at once avoids both mind/body dualisms and accounts for how the soul can subsist apart from the body. Though, as the soul subsists apart from the body, it has no sense…
The immateriality of the soul and the beatific vision mean that images of embodied persons in heaven rejoicing on account of one another's company are, in addition to being hokey, misleading. In this age, when we die, we are "absent from the body and present with the Lord." And…
On memes of RC/JMac hugging in heaven: “‘What’s wrong with you people?’ Stop trivializing the sacred.” ~ RC
Thomas Goodwin says, "You *therefore* find that the angels are *called* gods." What does he mean? "But ye have good angels and bad angels *called* gods as well as magistrates here below, and they are *therefore called so because they are rulers*."
Scripture refers to creatures as “gods.” All acknowledge this. Are these creatures gods by nature (actual or “real” gods), or are they gods by some kind of analogy? If by nature, it follows that YHWH is a participant in the divine genus. His essence and existence are not…
God is not just another being alongside others, albeit the greatest. He is the source and cause of all being. ~Brian Davies What this means practically is this: "Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for 'In him we live and move and have our being.'"
Interestingly, three out of five times Irenaeus quotes and prosopologically interprets Gen 1:26, he specifies that God the Father spoke these words to both the Son and Spirit. 1/2
“In none of these usages does the term persona have the connotation of emotional individuality or unique consciousness… the trinitarian use of persona does not point to three wills, three emotionally unique beings… such implication would be tritheistic.” - Muller, “persona”
Was Cornelius Van Til’s teaching on the Trinity consistent with the creeds?🧵 “Van Til may affirm traditional creedal formulas, but he also promotes erroneous formulations that conflict with both the ecumenical creeds and Reformed confessions when he writes…
"We too, who have been called through God's will in Christ Jesus, are not justified through ourselves, or through our own wisdom or understanding or godliness, or through our own deeds done in Holiness of heart; no, we are justified through faith." - Clement of Rome
Brent & Dr. Davidson journeyed over the Atlantic for Pastoral Theology I this week, getting to teach and learn alongside our British brothers in Ramsbottom!
Happy Independence Day.
Reminder that there was widespread support for the American war for independence among the English Dissenters, including the Particular Baptists. 🇺🇸 #4thofJuly