Today we continued our study of the Westminster Confession of Faith chapter 3, where we continued to speak to the issue of God’s foreordination of all that comes to pass. This issue seems to create a great deal of tension in the Christian community, which is a shame because in the Scriptures, the doctrine of…
The Uniformity of Nature Another major issue that develops when evaluating materialistic worldview falls into the area of how the adherent to this view justifies the Inductive Principle. First, how can the materialist utilize particular experience to formulate generalized conclusions about nature and reality? Second, how can the unbeliever, who believes that at its…
Moral Absolutes The second realm of law that the materialistic universe cannot justify falls into the area of moral absolutes. Like logical laws/absolutes, moral absolutes are the universal, abstract and invariant standard that undergirds objective ethical claims. They are absolute in the sense that they are universally binding, they are immaterial in nature and…
Transcendentals The understanding of a transcendental is generally put forth in one of three ways in modern thought. First, a transcendental can refer to that which is transcendent, such as the existence of the Christian God, Allah of the Islamic faith or deistic gods outside of the created order. Next, a transcendental may be…
Below is a brief seminary essay which explains the basic doctrines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society) and provides an apologetic against those basic doctrines . I hope you find this educational and edifying and remember to read the footnotes, because when I produced this essay, there was a strict page limit,…
Last week I preached on Psalm 128, speaking to the issue of the covenant home and its importance within the church. Also, the last two Sunday School’s have dealt with the Westminster Confession chapter 3 and God’s sovereign predestination of ALL that comes to pass. Here’s the audio from all of the above and many…
Since the posting of the Philippians 2.5-11 PowerPoint seemed to be helpful to some, I thought it might be equally beneficial to post my PowerPoints for Colossians 1.15-20. Again, notice the absolute deity of Christ in this passage and pay special attention to the terms “image” and “firstborn” in verse 15, which must be interpreted…
Philippians chapter 2 is one of the bedrocks of orthodox Christology, providing for the reader an amazing summation of the eternal existence, essence/nature and work of the divine Son from eternity past into the present. This text allows the reader to roll back the eternal history of the Son (to a limited degree) and His…
Many faithful Christians see a connection between the Lord Jesus’ statements of “I Am” in the Gospel’s and His deity. The shear use of such terms in the context which they are used would be absolutely blasphemous for any creature, and so, the faithful are correct in their assertion that our Lord’s use of these…
Given the nature of my last post, I figured that it would be helpful to post the textual data from Col 1:15 for you to take a look at. Notice specifically the words “image” and “firstborn” in this verse, and how they testify to the absolute deity of YHWH the Son. 1:15 who is (the)…
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