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:Rolleyes You do realise, I suppose that the website I referenced in my post was Ligonier, founded by R.C. Sproul. I don't think it would be recommending Arminian commentaries. Likewise Banner of Truth is a Reformed publishing house,set up in the 1950s specifically to promote Reformed and...

I understand the point he's making. There is no salvation without the death (and resurrection) of Christ. But no one is saved unless and until he trusts in Christ for salvation (Acts 16:31), and I am quite sure that saving faith is not believing that there was such a person as Jesus of Nazareth...

More from Dr. Needham's book: Hincmar's brutal treatment of Gottschalk outraged many Churchmen. Great Roman Catholic scholars leapt to the defense of Gottschalk and his theology - notably Archbishop Remigius of Lyons (d. 875), Florus of Lyons (d.860) and the monk Ratramnus of Corbie. The...

You may be right. To their own Master they stand or fall, though I think that if they are looking to their fasting or any other work to save them, they may be barking up the wrong tree . I took a brief holiday in Egypt mast month, and I was encouraged to see, along with the ubiquitous mosques...

I really don't want to come across as someone with a 'critical spirit,' but what @Craigbythesea has written is simply not correct. Nor do I want to pass myself off as some great authority on medieval Christianity, which I'm certainly not. The details that folow are mostly taken from 2,000...

Er..... no. I have three commentaries on Romans written from a Reformed perspective on my bookshelf. Haldane, Robert, Romans. Banner of Truth 'Geneva' Commentary, 1958. Originally published around 1835. Moule, Handley, The Epistle to the Romans, Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. Hendriksen...

I'm reluctant to make detailed predictions about the end times. No doubt the Lord has it all worked out, and our job is to be ready (Matt. 24:36-44). I think the Isaiah 19 text is in line with verses like Genesis 12:3. We are seeing many Muslims and others becoming Christians these days...

1 Cor. 15:22. 'For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.'

I had decided not to get involved with these fruitless posts on the Cal/Arm forum which go over and over the same ground and never seem to persuade anybody. However, I do have something to say on 2 Peter 2:1. I shall not get involved in any further discussions on the subject. 2 Peter 2:1. ‘But...

I know you do, brother. I was only teasing you!

What!!!! You can't possibly do that!!!! If you do you might have to believe that Ephesins 2:1 is true and people really are dead in sin! And if you believe that you might have to believe that Ephesians 2:5 is true, and it's God who makes us alive! Then where shall we be?

Thanks to Conan for posting this. Some years ago I wrote a blog post on this subject: Critical Text or Traditional Text? It may be of interest to some.

OK, I'm sure you're right. And Tom was right as well. Calvinism does not need Calvin (though he was not the ogre that some make him out to be). But Calvinism long preceeded Calvin; it is nothing else but Biblical salvation.

The reason that the exercise of faith is not a work is that it is the gift of God (Phil. 1:29 etc.). Jonah 2:9. 'Salvation is of the LORD.' Matt. 16:17. "..... For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but My Father who is in heaven.' Acts 16:14. 'The Lord opened her heart to heed the...

He certainly was that, but I thought he described himself as being an IBF - but my memory may be playing me false.

Wasn't the late lamented Tom Cassidy an IBF? He was certainly Calvinistic, or at least, he believed in particular redemption.

1 John 2:19. 'They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that it might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.' If people depart permanently from Christ, they were never His (Matt. 7:23). The Good...

I have no idea. I have only once attended such a church. But until recently, the Free Church of Scotland only sang unaccompanied metrical Psalms, and some of the smaller Presbyterian churches carry that on to this day. But you are aware, I suppose that King David laid down the musical...

Indeed. The Met Tab also donated organs (musical ones, that is!) to smaller churches, but never had one while Spurgeon was pastor. It has one now.

The rational behind a capella singing in churches is that New Testament worship is different from the worship in the Temple. THere is no mention of any musical instruments at all in the N.T. and therefore, it is claimed, we should not have instruments in churches. There is a tiny number of...