Recent content by Martin Marprelate

Well that's a good start in seeking consensus, isn't it. But the fact appears to be that you don't want feedback, you want agreement. Unfortunately, your whole theology is wrong, pretty much from start to finish, but you won't take advice, but react with hostility. If you wanted feedback, you...

I'm sorry but 'overseer' is what episkopos means. You live in a country where 'overseers' were once slave-drivers; I don't. The overseer/elder should be the servant of the congregation, not the master.

No, I believe the pastor is, and must be, an elder. My only problem is with one 'monarchical' pastor and no elders, although, as I wrote, this may be the only option for some very small churches. My pastor was the only elder until he invited me to join him.

I have no probelm with 7 of these, and I'm glad to see you referring to two 'ordinances' rather than 'sacraments.' It may just be a matter of words, but I think we should avoid any perceived connection with the Roman Catholic connotation of 'sacrament.' My problem with T is not so much with the...

If you want to be pedantic, Christ crucified brings about reconciliation. But I am not aware of having written that the cross makes salvation possible. I may perhaps have done so in a moment of madness, but I have been all through this thread and I can't find it. Here are two examples of what...

Acts 15:18. 'Known to God from eternity are all His works.' 'Folks' should note how, in addition to butchering the Greek language, @Van does not hesitate to add to God's word to uphold his ropey theology. I have had cause to mention this text before. Proverbs 30:5-6. Every word of God is...

As everyone but you can see, all the posters believe that individuals are chosen for salvation through faith in the truth. That's what the Bible says. The question at issue is whether the choosing comes before the faith or vice versa. We are helped here by Acts 13:48. 'And as many as had been...

I pointed this out to you already. PSA has nothing to do with "possibilities." 2 Cor. 5:19-21. '.... That God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them ........... For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the...

Yes. 'But as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive' (Gen. 50:20). We must be careful in saying that the cross was unjust, because, along with the resurrection, it is the most glorious event in...

'Declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead' (Rom. 1:4). Jesus is the first-born from the dead in that He is the first to rise from death. Because He is risen, all those who are in Christ will also rise. A study of Lev...

Since it was God who put Christ to grief and made His soul an offering for sin, and the Lord Jesus who willingly obeyed, you are unwise to call His death unjust. Also, PSA does not view the cross as making reconciliation possible; it views the cross as making reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18).

I interpret it in the same way as the Lord Jesus does. "Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.' We should always look to find Christ in all the Scriptures.

Well then, I don't think you understand it. The question is: 1. Did Christ take and bear our sins, God laying them on Him? 2. Did He so take them as to undergo the punishment due in respect of them? 3. Did He do this in our stead? I think we are agreed on No.1 in the affirmative. I'm sure you...

I think the way to look at this is to recall the Scapegoat in Lev. 16, esp. v.22. 'The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land....' In the same way, the Lord Jesus bears away our sins. Our sins, or the guilt of them, are transferred to Him and He, having paid the...

How then do you account for 1 Peter 2:24? Isaiah tells us that the Lord laid our sins upon the Lord Jesus, and Peter tells us that He bore them in His own body, on the tree. The reference to a tree (c.f. Gal. 3:13) tells us that He also bore the curse of our sins. He bears our sins, but we...