What I Read Online - 06/02/2012 (a.m.)

• Ligonier.org

  • During the second Question and Answers period at the Ligonier Ministries 2012 National Conference, the speakers were asked this question in connection with the ongoing debate between Christians who think the universe is less than 10,000 years old and those who think it is much older. Dr. R.C. Sproul took about five minutes to answer the question, and what he said in that brief period of time should be heard by every Reformed Christian who is interested in this subject and by every Reformed Christian who is discussing and debating it.

     

• Ligonier.org

  • Closer to our own day, the Dutch Reformed systematic theologian Herman Bavinck wrote the following: “He [God] is the truth in its absolute fullness. He, therefore, is the primary, the original truth, the source of all truth, the truth in all truth. He is the ground of the truth – of the true being – of all things, of their knowability and conceivability, the ideal and archetype of all truth, of all ethical being, of all the rules and laws, in light of which the nature and manifestation of all things should be judged and on which they should be modeled. God is the source and origin of the knowledge of truth in all areas of life…”ⁱⁱⁱ

     

• General and Special Revelation — A Reformed Approach to Science and Scripture by Keith Mathison | Ligonier Ministries Blog

  • As John Murray explains, “We must not tone down the teaching of the apostle in this passage. It is a clear declaration to the effect that the visible creation as God’s handiwork makes manifest the invisible perfections of God as its Creator, that from the things which are perceptible to the senses cognition of these invisible perfections is derived, and that thus a clear apprehension of God’s perfections may be gained from his observable handiwork.”ⁱⁱ

     
    

• Ligonier.org

  • During my final months at Dallas Theological Seminary, when I was slowly transitioning out of dispensational premillennialism toward Reformed theology, I was repeatedly informed that the only reason I was not a premillennialist was because I didn’t believe the Bible (specifically Revelation 20). My friends there could not grasp the fact that my difference with them had to do with a difference of interpretation, not a difference over the authority of God’s Word.

     

• Luther, Calvin, and Copernicus — A Reformed Approach to Science and Scripture by Keith Mathison | Ligonier Ministries Blog

  • Geocentricity, however, is not the main point. The main point Dr. Sproul is making by pointing out these past mistakes Christians have made in the interpretation of general and special revelation is to remind us of the possibility of contemporary mistakes. Theologians and biblical scholars have not developed the attribute of infallibility since the time of Luther and Calvin.

     

• 10 Misconceptions about the NT Canon: #5: “Early Christians Disagreed Widely over the Books Which Made It into the Canon” | Canon Fodder

  •   A core NT canon existed very early
  • Use of apocryphal books is not evidence of widespread disagreement
  • Instances of disagreement over canonical books are not necessarily evidence that such disagreement is widespread

• Dare to Do the Daniel Diet – White Horse Inn Blog

  • What intrigued me about the TIME article was the author’s keen exegetical skills. I’ll explain in a minute.

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