Recent content by Martin Marprelate

@Van does not seem to be aware that lego is not the word most often translated as 'called.' That word is kaleo and it is rendered as 'called' 126 times, whereas lego is used only ten times that I can find: Matt. 19:17; Mark 10:18; 12:37; 15:12; Luke 18:19; 20:37; John 15:15; Acts 10:28; 24:14...

Modern English has changed; of that there is no doubt. Whether it has degraded has yet to be proved. To take modern slang as the proof of degradation will not do because there was also slang in 1611. Is the language of the ESV translation, or the NASB, degraded? I think that would also have...

Do you want to deal with my post? The whole point of what Paul is saying in Rom. 1-3 is that 'We have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one......' If salvation is by works, no one at all is going to be...

<sigh> You still refuse to get it. Justification is by grace alone through the work of Christ, but it comes through faith in Christ, not works (Eph. 2:8; Titus 3:5ff again). Therefore it is by grace alone, by Christ alone, through faith alone, according to the Scriptures alone, to the glory...

The reason I asked this question is that it's a very pertinent question for churches in the UK and I should have thought, also in the USA. With what other churches should your church have fellowship? In England, every fair-sized town or city will have several churches, and there is an...

The Bible tells us that we are saved by grace through faith, but certainly not by works. Eph. 2:8-9. 'For by grace you have been saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.' If you protest that those verses do not mention...

I think that Spurgeon's point was that we are not to agonize over whether we are elect (chosen) or not, or whether we feel sufficiently guilty, but to to come to Christ. The sinner's warrant to come to Christ is that he is a sinner, and Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Tim...

WCF XXI:1 states, '... The acceptable way of worshipping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men.....' [The 1689 & Savoy Confessions are similar] Since the scriptures make it...

A couple of quotes from Spurgeon: 'The gospel is that you believe in Christ Jesus; that you get right out of yourself, and depend alone in Him. Do you say, "I feel so guilty"? You are certainly guilty, whether you feel it or not; you are far more guilty than you have any idea of. Come to...

If only!

Yes it is. What tends to happen is that some Reformed churches cease to follow their own Confessions of Faith. The Church of England hierarchy ceased to uphold its own XXXIX Articles, and P.C.U.S.A. abandoned the Westminster Confession. The result is always a downgrade in doctrine and...

You keep talking about this as if it were fact, but you never give an example of these R.C. doctrines. I have been on the 'Puritan Board' in the past and spent long hours arguing that very point. However, they definitely think that paedobaptism is Biblical. Reformed Presbyterians are not too...

Well I'm sad that you are saddened, but that is irrelevant too. What was the question that you think I can't answer? What on earth are you talking about? Why not read my post #3 and 4 again? Are you confusing me with someone else? I was not engaging at all with your argument; I was engaging...

Abraham was an OT saint. Did he have to wait in his own bosom? Just wondering.

One stage, two stage or three stage separation?