Confessionalism invites the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church to Bible study.
No more, “What does this passage mean to me?” Instead, “What have faithful Christians historically believed?”
"Now à persona ad rem non valet consequentia: because some men abuse wine or a sword, it does not therefore follow that wine is naught or a sword evil. The fault is in the person who abuses the wine to drunkenness, and the sword to violence."
Thomas Hall (Puritan)
"Now à persona ad rem non valet consequentia: because some men abuse wine or a sword, it does not therefore follow that wine is naught or a sword evil. The fault is in the person who abuses the wine to drunkenness, and the sword to violence."
Thomas Hall (Puritan)
“They know they will not repent. That door out of Hell is firmly locked, by the devils themselves, on the inside; whether it is also locked on the outside need not, therefore, be considered.”
Lewis, Paradise Lost
“[Satan] is engaged in sawing off the branch he is sitting on…since a creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers—including even his power to revolt”
Lewis, preface to paradise lost
“whoever tries to rebel against God produces the result opposite to his intention (VII, 613). At the end of the poem Adam is astonished at the power ‘that all this good of evil shall produce’ (XII, 470). This is the exact reverse of the programme Satan had envisaged in Book I,…
“Instead of stripping the knight of his armour you can try to put his armour on yourself; instead of seeing how the courtier would look without his lace, you can try to see how you would feel with his lace; that is, with his honour, his wit, his royalism, and his gallantries out…
“The idea of a poetry which exists only for the poet—a poetry which the public rather overhears than hears—is a foolish novelty in criticism. There is nothing specially admirable in talking to oneself. Indeed, it is arguable that Himself is the very audience before whom a man…
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
C.S. Lewis, Preface to Paradise Lost
Does *sola Scriptura* mean Scripture is our *only* authority?🧵
“… sola Scriptura does not mean that Scripture is the *only* authority.
If I go and hear you say that at some point in the future, I’m going to write a letter to you at your church or wherever you are.
Things we like: San Diego Reformed Church has a Pslam Sing: Pride edition, explaining:
"These godly men lifted their strong voices in the aftermath of a pride parade—where crowds had gathered to celebrate what God hates, parading rebellion and calling it love.
They sang the…
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Sometimes one of my teenage kids says something outlandish or extreme. I realize they are just testing out different world views and sensing what types of reactions they can get.
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