https://freerepublic.com/tag/bbwarfield/ en-us Fri, 1 May 2015 17:22:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3285258/posts What happened on Pentecost? What are the implications of what took place on Pentecost for the church today? What expectations ought Christians to have for the work of the Holy Spirit in their own lives and the lives of others? Christians today continue to be divided, sometimes deeply, over the answers to these questions. During the 2015 B.B. Warfield Memorial Lecture Series we will examine the Bible for the sound and reliable answers it alone provides. AllianceNet.org https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3285258/posts#comment Fri, 1 May 2015 17:22:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1707425/posts We hear a great deal nowadays of the right of Criticism, spoken with a certain air of conscious heroism, as if Criticism (with a big C, doubtless because it is "Higher"), were being dreadfully oppressed by somebody. But we know no one who denies the right of Criticism. Everybody uses it; and everybody honors it. It is the instrument by which we test truth. And in proportion as the truth is important or the claims which it makes on us are supreme, is not only the right of Criticism allowed, but its duty insisted upon. The indifference with which we... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1707425/posts#comment Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:57:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1706820/posts A great man of the last generation began the preface of a splendid little book he was writing on this subject, with the words: "Happy would it be for the church of Christ and for the world, if Christian ministers and Christian people could be content to be disciples-learners." He meant to intimate that if only we were all willing to sit simply at the feet of the inspired writers and take them at their word, we should have no difficulties with Predestination. The difficulties we feel with regard to Predestination are not derived from the Word. The Word is... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1706820/posts#comment Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:10:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1706434/posts Sometimes we are told that Justification by Faith is "out of date." That would be a pity, if it were true. What it would mean would be that the way of salvation was closed and "no thoroughfare" nailed up over the barriers. There is no justification for sinful men except by faith. The works of a sinful man will, of course, be as sinful as he is, and nothing but condemnation can be built on them. Where can he get works upon which he can found his hope of justification,, except from Another? His hope of Justification, remember—that is, of... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1706434/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:29:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1704961/posts In Dr. G. P. Fisher's recently issued History of Christian Doctrine there is a very suggestive passage in which he tells us how heresies usually originate, and gives us an insight into their nature. He says: When Christianity is brought into contact with modes of thought and tenets originating elsewhere, either of two effects may follow. It may assimilate them, discarding whatever is at variance with the gospel, or the tables may be turned and the foreign elements may prevail. In the latter case there ensues a perversion of Christianity, an amalgamation with it of ideas discordant with its nature.... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1704961/posts#comment Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:11:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1704367/posts The subject of this address is the theology of John Calvin and I shall ask leave to take this subject rather broadly, that is to say, to attempt not so much to describe the personal peculiarities of John Calvin as a theologian, as to indicate in broad outlines the determining characteristics of the theology which he taught. I wish to speak, in other words, about Calvinism, that great system of religious thought which bears John Calvin's name, and which also--although of course he was not its author, but only one of its chief exponents--bears indelibly impressed upon it the marks... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1704367/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:47:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1703001/posts The Theology of Grace Augustine & The Pelagian Controversy (Part 4) by Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921) The following essay (part 4 of 4) was originally published in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905, pp. 13-71). This material was made available by Shane Rosenthal for Reformation Ink. It is in the public domain and may be freely copied and distributed. Footnotes have not yet been made available for this section, but will be uploaded soon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The theology which Augustine opposed, in his anti-Pelagian writings, to the errors... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1703001/posts#comment Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:21:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1702558/posts Part III: Augustine's Part in The Controversy Both by nature and by grace, Augustine was formed to be the champion of truth in this controversy. Of a naturally philosophical temperament, he saw into the springs of life with a vividness of mental perception to which most men are strangers; and his own experiences in his long life of resistance to, and then of yielding to, the drawings of God's grace, gave him a clear apprehension of the great evangelic principle that God seeks men, not men God, such as no sophistry could cloud. However much his philosophy or theology might... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1702558/posts#comment Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:05:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1701958/posts Part II: The External History of the Pelagian Controversy Pelagius seems to have been already somewhat softened by increasing age when he came to Rome about the opening of the fifth century. He was also constitutionally averse to controversy; and although in his zeal for Christian morals, and in his conviction that no man would attempt to do what he was not persuaded he had natural power to perform, he diligently propagated his doctrines privately, he was careful to rouse no opposition, and was content to make what progress he could quietly and without open discussion. His methods of work... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1701958/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:10:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1701216/posts The following essay was originally published in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905, pp. 13-71). This material has been made available by Shane Rosenthal for Reformation Ink. It is in the public domain and may be freely copied and distributed. Footnotes have been included in this section, but are still forthcoming in sections 2-4. Part I: The Origin & Nature of Pelagianism It was inevitable that the energy of the Church in intellectually realizing and defining its doctrines in relation to one another, should first be directed... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1701216/posts#comment Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:53:02 GMT