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Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, most of the Book of Proverbs, and at least one Psalm. I do not believe that God used unregenerate people to write His holy word. His sins are troubling but I am sure that he is in heaven.

So many insulting one-liners, and not a word of Scripture! You are not the only one who does it, but I think you are probably the worst. It's not good and it's not clever. Did you ever watch the film "Bambi" when you were growing up? Well, heed the words of Thumper's mother: "If you can't...

Thank you for your kind words. You are quite correct; there should be no need to shorten the article, but it is a sad fact that too few people on this board take the trouble to read anything longer than a couple of paragraphs. Perhaps their attention spans are too short. So I will attempt to...

We know perhaps that what you believe is what you believe is Scripture itself. But in fact, almost ten years ago I posted on this forum a detailed description of the evidence for Penal Substitution. I think I posted it three times and you never made the slightest effort to interact with it in...

For the fourth or fifth time, I have NOT called your beliefs a heresy OK. What are these things? Let's have a debate about them. AT LAST! Something concrete! Praise the Lord. I will come back to you on these, one at a time, shortly. I think you will find that it's you who do that.

Total Depravity does not mean that non-Christians are as depraved as they can possibly be. It means that every part of man is depraved to some degree (Isaiah 1:4-6; Matt. 7:11). Total Inability, if it is the suggestion that non-Christians are physically incapable of repenting and believing, is...

Here is your first problem. "Soul liberty" is the right of the individual to follow the dictates of his conscience in the matter of religion. It does not address the question of whether a lost soul will trust in Christ without the leading of the Spirit. The Bible does that (Romans 8:8-9; 1...

And I have asked you which of my posts you are thinking of. Let me have the post number and I will answer you. That is the same as saying that I am a closet Roman Catholic. Firstly, I have NOT called your belief a heresy. It may be because I'm a Brit, but I associate that word with the...

I never call people heretics. You have called my views heretical on the open forum, but I have never called anyone a heretic. You will not find anywhere that I called you a heretic. Which post are you thinking of? Let's have chapter and verse. You, on the other hand have repeatedly accused...

I have not called your views a heresy - ever. I never call anyone's views on a forum a heresy. I called Charles Taze Russell's views heretical, and pointed out that he, and others like him, claimed "just to believe the Scriptures" as you claim to do.

Your problem is that you do not know what God's word teaches, and since you believe yourself to be too clever to learn from others, you are never likely to learn at all. Almost every heresy under heaven was started by people who 'just believe the Bible.' The Bible will tell you that, 'Where...

Stop being so silly! The Reformers rescued millions of people from the errors of Romanism, often at the cost of their own lives.

You do nothing of the kind, and never have whilst I have been on this forum. You follow your own mind, which has shown itself time and time again to be insufficient for the job. You cannot bring a single piece of Scripture to bear to prove your silly and offensive allegations.

I'm glad that you agree with me. Do you also agree that one solitary usage of 'Reformed' in the whole of the WCF is by no means sufficient to prove anything?

This is your definition of "soul liberty," is it? If a mormon decided to re-form Mormon theology according to Scripture you would end up with Reformed Mormonism that contained a lot of error, Scripture interpreted through Mormon theology, and areas that were closer to the Bible than than...

Welcome, Mur. Matthew 28:18-20 teaches that disciples of the Lord Jesus should be baptized when they become disciples, so you should find a church that will do that for you, though the leaders will want to check first that you understand what you are doing.

No. It means that people claim to be followers of Christ. JWs and Mormons claim to be Christians. The Reformed confessions, especially the 1689, SHOW that people are followers of Christ. No. That was what Luther attempted to do, and ended up with a partial reformation. The Reformed...

A quick check (I may have missed something) through your very helpful tabular comparison revealed to me only one place where the WCF used the word 'Reformed,' and you are right that the 1689 Confession did not follow it (cf. WCF XXIV:3; LBCF (1689) XXV:3). I am not sure what conclusions can be...

The term 'Reformed Baptist' is as recent as the 1960s. Before that, Baptists who held to the Doctrines of Grace and the 1689 Confession (like Keach, Gill or Spurgeon) would have called themselves 'Particular Baptists.' The term was coined by Walt Chantry and Welshman Geoff Thomas when they...

Hebrews 9:27. 'And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after that the judgment.' Matt. 25:46. "And these will go away into everlasting [Gk. 'aionios'] punishment, but the righteous into eternal [Gk. 'aionios'] life." Luke 13:28 etc. "There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."