Confessing Orthodox Reformed Theology
In a twist that would make M. Night Shyamalan's head spin, Leighton Flowers recently released an hour-plus long video on ... Calvinism! In his latest installment of Quantity over Quality, Leighton joins his friend, Eric Kemp, in trying to smoke out the Hyper-Calvinist of John Piper's doctrine by setting a stadium's worth of strawmen on... Continue Reading →
In my last post, I dealt with the distinctions of the Persons within the Godhead, and explained how these eternal distinctions can exist in One and the same Being. In it, we saw that the orthodox, biblical view of the Trinity is that the Persons are distinguished only by their relative properties, and not by... Continue Reading →
There is perhaps no doctrine more frequently misunderstood or more difficult to comprehend than the doctrine of the Trinity. A large amount of our errors stem from our refusal to acknowledge that we cannot fully grasp it, and that the inner-workings of our almighty, infinite God are far beyond the capacity of even the best... Continue Reading →
Author's Note (11/25/23): This early post of mine has been getting some attention again. Revisiting it, I continue to stand by its content. However, I do worry that some parts of it could be misunderstood as teaching that we should disparage all our earthy duties altogether, so I want to be crystal clear that I'm... Continue Reading →
Have you heard this argument before? "Sure, the Bible may be infallible, but are you infallible? If you're not infallible, how do you know your interpretation of the Bible is correct? An infallible Bible isn't helpful without an infallible interpreter, and therefore we need the infallible interpretation of [insert authority here]!" In most cases, the... Continue Reading →
My heart is inditing a good matter... my tongue is the pen of a ready writer (Psalm 45:1). In a world full of darkness, error, and confusion, the Christian seems to constantly be engaged in a war of innumerable fronts. Satan's legions are wide and varied, dawning many different uniforms under many different generals, but... Continue Reading →
Retraction: The author still stands with the substance of this post, but has developed in his thinking on this topic throughout the pandemic. The end of this post implies that it is acceptable for a church to treat the government's mandates as a "providential hindrance" so long as the mandates only continue for a short... Continue Reading →
Two men set out on a journey. They walk at the same pace, and profess to have the same destination - due north. However, one thing separates the friends: one of their compasses has a defect. It's just slightly off, pointing one degree away from north. The man with the good compass has a sharp... Continue Reading →
The professional anti-Calvinist, Leighton Flowers, has made it his life's work to prop up the autonomy of man against the absolute sovereignty of the God "who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" (Ephesians 1:11). But this is no easy task; the complete inability of man in the face of an all-powerful... Continue Reading →
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (~5th-6th Century AD) was a heavily influential early church father for medieval Christendom. Thomas Aquinas - the scholastic theologian par excellence - quotes him a whopping 1700 times in his writings [1]. What's more, the Areopagite's writings were greatly consulted by the primary early adversary of Luther, John Eck, specifically in defense... Continue Reading →
The Particular Baptist 