I hold to the 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith (with exception to 24.1) as an accurate summary of what God has revealed in Scripture.
Here is an index list of posts on the site
Specific Passages
- Chrysostom on 1 Cor. 7:14
- Galatians 3 vs Romans 4
- Romans 2:7 and 2:13
- Jesus on “All Shall Know Me” (John 6:45; Is 54:13)
- Some Disagreement with Coxe on Galatians 3:17
- 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – Paedobaptist False Inferences
- 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – An Exposition
- Galatians 3:16
- Owen on Hebrews 6:3-6
- Gal. 3:18 – Generic Law and Promise, or Sinai and Messiah?
- They are not all Israel, who are of Israel (Rom 9:6)
- A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
- 1 Cor. 7:14 – No Proof of Infant Baptism
- 1 Cor. 7:14 – The “Legitimacy” Interpretation
- Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
- Paul’s Enthymemes on the Law (Gal 4:4-5)
- Deuteronomy 6:25
- Hebrews 10 & John 15
- The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
- 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)
Podcast Interviews
- Two-Tier Typology & OT Salvation (Response to Christ the Center)
- Podcast: 1689F @ Reformed Brotherhood
- Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
- Podcast: Reformed Rookie – What is 1689 Federalism?
- Two Age Sojourner Podcast: Reformed Libertarianism & 1689 Federalism (Substance/Administration)
- SRR 92 Brandon Adams on Covenant Theology & Republication
- Podcast Discussion of Theonomy (According to Christ)
- Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
- R. Scott Clark’s Inconsistent Hermeneutic
- Overview of 1689 Federalism on the Reformed Northwest Podcast
1689 Federalism
(for an overview, start here: http://www.1689federalism.com)
General 1689 Federalism
- Re: Steffaniak’s “Reforming Credobaptism”
- Brief Comments/Clarifications on the T4G Covenant Theology Panel
- Do Presbyterians Have Regeneration Goggles?
- Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
- John Ball on Salvation Prior to Christ’s Death
- Was the Old Covenant an Administration of the Covenant of Grace?
- Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
- Does 1689 Federalism require “Regeneration Goggles”?
- Re: Did The Covenant Of Grace Begin In The New Covenant?
- John Gill & 1689 Federalism
- 1689 Federalism & America’s Founding
- Chris Caughey’s Open Letter
- Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
- A Summary of Why Baptists Appeal to Owen
- Les & Tanner Talk Baptism
- Did Spurgeon hold to 1689 Federalism?
- Augustine: Proto-1689 Federalist
- An “Objective” Covenant
- Chris Villi’s Analysis of 1689 Federalism
- Review of “Recovering a Covenantal Heritage”
- 1689Federalism.com Update
- The More Things Change…
- Did A.W. Pink Agree w/ 1689 Federalism?
- The Fatal Flaw testimony
- Why Hebrews 9 Is Referring To A Covenant Not To A Testament
- Problems with PRCA Covenant Theology
- 1689 Federalism
- Review of TDBCT & Interview
- Debate: Jeffrey Johnson vs Michael Horton
- An Unguarded Paedobaptist
- The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology
- New book coming soon: The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology, Pascal Denault
- Covenant Substance vs Administration in the 1689 LBCF
- Sam Renihan on Kingdom & Covenant
- Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology and Biblical Theology (Sam & Micah Renihan)
- Scripture does not yield up its treasures
- Early Thoughts on Covenant Theology
New Covenant
- Re: Reformed Forum on Jer 31, Typology, Owen, Subservient
- OT Saints Were Saved by the New Covenant (Quotes)
- Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
- Re: Gaffin on Hebrews 8
- Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
- Aquinas’ Distinction Between Membership in the New Covenant and the era of the New Covenant
- Re: James White’s “Newness of the New Covenant”
- Aquinas’ Retroactive New Covenant
- Tabletalk’s Retroactive New Covenant
- The New Covenant of Grace was a Present Reality for OT Saints
- Do Presbyterians Have Regeneration Goggles?
- Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
- John Ball on Salvation Prior to Christ’s Death
- The French Reformed Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
- Horton’s Retroactive New Covenant
- Jesus on “All Shall Know Me” (John 6:45; Is 54:13)
- Samuel Renihan on New Covenant Union
- Keach on Union with Christ
- Coxe on New Covenant Union with Christ
- Charles Simeon on the New Covenant
- Union with Christ is the New Covenant
- John Frame’s Retroactive New Covenant
- Owen on Hebrews 6:3-6
- Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
- Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
- Jones on Conditions
- Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
- New Covenant Union as Mystical Union in Owen
- Berkhof on Jer. 31:31-34
- M’Cheyne on the New Covenant
- The promise was sufficient & efficacious
- Joshua Moon “Jeremiah’s New Covenant: An Augustinian Reading “
- Calvin’s Retroactive New COvenant
- Owen: New Covenant Conditional or Absolute?
- Abraham Booth’s “The Kingdom of Christ”
- Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
- Petto: Conditional New Covenant?
- McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen
- The Transtestamental (Retroactive) New Covenant
- John Owen’s Commentary on the Old and New Covenants (Outline)
- Augustine on the New Covenant
Old Covenant
- Two-Tier Typology & OT Salvation (Response to Christ the Center)
- Re: Reformed Forum on Jer 31, Typology, Owen, Subservient
- Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
- Theonomy?
- Was the Old Covenant an Administration of the Covenant of Grace?
- Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
- How Christians Should Regard Moses (Luther)
- John Cotton: Proponent of the “Mixed Covenant” View?
- A Post-Fall Covenant of Works?
- Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
- Review of “Bounds of Love”
- Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
- Can R. Scott Clark be Truly Reformed?
- Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
- Paul’s Enthymemes on the Law (Gal 4:4-5)
- Deuteronomy 6:25
- Guy Waters on Leviticus 18:5
- 1689 Federalism & Theonomy
- Thomas Scott on the Mosaic Covenant
- Abraham Booth’s “The Kingdom of Christ”
- John Erskine’s “The Nature of the Sinai Covenant”
- Paedobaptism and Forks
- Baptists Couldn’t Possibly Know What They’re Talking About: Debating Owen, Round 472
- OPC GA Republication Study Committee
- Martin Luther: Mosaic Covenant About Temporal Things
- Clarification on the Mosaic Covenant and Eternal Life
- Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
- Summary of Venema’s Review of TLNF
- Calamy’s Survey of Mosaic Covenant Views
- McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen
- WCF/SDF/LBC 19.1,2 and Republication
- Kerux vs TLNF
- Iron Can’t Sharpen Iron Without Honesty
- John Owen’s Commentary on the Old and New Covenants (Outline)
- Confusing Law and Gospel (and the WCF)
- Pink on Moses (& Republication)
Typology
- Are Civil Rulers Our Nurse Fathers?
- Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
- 19th Century Scottish Presbyterian Criticism of Bannerman’s Visible/Invisible Church(es)
- R. Scott Clark’s Inconsistent Hermeneutic
- Israel as a Parenthesis in God’s Plan
- Kline’s Two-Level Fulfillment 184 Years Before Kingdom Prologue
- Amillennialism’s Two-Edged Sword
- Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
- They are not all Israel, who are of Israel (Rom 9:6)
- A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
- Implications of Israel as a Type
- Roger Williams on Israel as a Type of the Church
- Israel and the Church: See the Difference?
- Samuel Mather on Israel as a Type of the Church
- I Will Be God to You
- The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
- Blood of bulls and goats : blood of Christ :: physical Israel : spiritual Israel
- 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)
- Paedobaptism and Forks
- Objection to Israel as a type of the Church
- Jonathan Edwards on the Nation of Israel as a Type of the Church
- Riddlebarger interviewed on Amillenialism
- The Oneness of the Church – John Owen
- Hodge on the Visibility of the Church
- Mixing Types and Antitypes in the Blender
Abrahamic Covenant
- “Everlasting” and “Forever”
- Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
- Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 7: R. Scott Clark
- Muller on the Reformed History of Gal 3:17 (Translation & Interpretation)
- Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
- Two Age Sojourner Podcast: Reformed Libertarianism & 1689 Federalism (Substance/Administration)
- Abraham not Moses?
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hodge on the Abrahamic Covenant(s)
- T. David Gordon’s Dichotomous Abrahamic Covenant
- Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 6: 1689 Federalism
- Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 5: Glory Cloud Podcast
- Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 4: Contradiction
- Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 3: Royal Grant Proposal
- Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 2: Typological Merit
- Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 1: Murray and Shepherd
- John Brown on Galatians 3:16-17
- Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
- R. Scott Clark’s Inconsistent Hermeneutic
- Baptism to a Thousand Generations?
- A Twitter Exchange on Galatians 3:16
- Kline’s Two-Level Fulfillment 184 Years Before Kingdom Prologue
- Some Disagreement with Coxe on Galatians 3:17
- Backus Against Dominionism
- Galatians 3:16
- Gal. 3:18 – Generic Law and Promise, or Sinai and Messiah?
- A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
- Coxe and Pink on Circumcision
- Additional Answers to Founders Conference Q&A (Is the Abrahamic Covenant “of works”?)
- Gordon Clark on the baptism of great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great–great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren
- The Oneness of the Church – John Owen
- Is the Abrahamic Covenant Conditional or Unconditional?
- Hodge on the Visibility of the Church
- Pink on Circumcision
Covenant of Works
- Re: Sumpter, White, & Wilson on “Federal Vision Baptists?”
- Federal Vision Baptists?
- Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision? — Reformed Libertarian
- Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
- Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision?
- Leithart’s Monocovenantalism
- Is John Piper Confessional?
- Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
- Timeline Snapshot of Justification Debate
- The Silent Shift on 7.1
- Kline’s Covenant Creation & WCF 7.1
- Nehemiah Coxe on Merit in LBCF 7.1
- The Current Justification Controversy (on sale $3.98)
- Norman Shepherd: What’s All the Fuss?
- Greg Nichols and Norman Shepherd
- Clarification on the Mosaic Covenant and Eternal Life
- McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen
Davidic Covenant
Westminster Federalism
- Re: Reformed Forum on Jer 31, Typology, Owen, Subservient
- Re: Steffaniak’s “Reforming Credobaptism”
- Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
- Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
- John Ball on Salvation Prior to Christ’s Death
- Hodge’s (Baptist) Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
- The French Reformed Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
- 19th Century Scottish Presbyterian Criticism of Bannerman’s Visible/Invisible Church(es)
- Was the Old Covenant an Administration of the Covenant of Grace?
- Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
- Baptism to a Thousand Generations?
- The Heidelblog’s Monologue of Misrepresentation
- Heidelcast “I Will Be a God to You and to Your Children”
- Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
- Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
- They are not all Israel, who are of Israel (Rom 9:6)
- Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
- A Critique of R. Scott Clark’s Covenant Theology
- Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
- Hebrews 10 & John 15
- Kline on “Administration of the Covenant of Grace”
- The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
- Church Membership: De Jure or De Facto?
- Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
- Kline’s Comments against WCF/WLC
- Contradiction in the Westminster Confession
- Iron Can’t Sharpen Iron Without Honesty
- Confusing Law and Gospel (and the WCF)
Leviticus 18:5
- Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
- Theonomy?
- SRR 92 Brandon Adams on Covenant Theology & Republication
- Acceptable Understanding of Mosaic Law (According to the OPC Report on Republication)
- Podcast Discussion of Theonomy (According to Christ)
- Are Good Works More Than Fruit?
- Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
- A Post-Fall Covenant of Works?
- Can R. Scott Clark be Truly Reformed?
- Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
- Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
- Timeline Snapshot of Justification Debate
- Guy Waters on Leviticus 18:5
- OPC GA Republication Study Committee
- Clarification on the Mosaic Covenant and Eternal Life
- Summary of Venema’s Review of TLNF
- WCF/SDF/LBC 19.1,2 and Republication
- Confusing Law and Gospel (and the WCF)
OPC Report on Republication
- Two-Tier Typology & OT Salvation (Response to Christ the Center)
- SRR 92 Brandon Adams on Covenant Theology & Republication
- Acceptable Understanding of Mosaic Law (According to the OPC Report on Republication)
- OPC Report on Republication – Background
- John Cotton: Proponent of the “Mixed Covenant” View?
- OPC Republication Report – Summary
20th Century Reformed Baptist View
- Two Age Sojourner Podcast: Reformed Libertarianism & 1689 Federalism (Substance/Administration)
- John Gill & 1689 Federalism
- James White doesn’t know what 1689 Federalism is
- Waldron’s Sermons on Covenant Theology
- Non-Dispensational, Calvinistic, Credobaptist Covenantalism Compass
NCT/Progressive Covenantalism
- Review: Captive to the Word of God – A Particular Baptist Perspective on Reformed and Covenant Theology
- CFTP Podcast: NCT & 1689 Federalism
- 1689 Federalism Response to Wellum’s “Progressive Covenantalism and the Doing of Ethics”
- Kingdom Through Covenant, a Review by Samuel Renihan
- Non-Dispensational, Calvinistic, Credobaptist Covenantalism Compass
- Critique of Jon Zens’ “Is There A Covenant of Grace?”
- Pink and NCT
Dispensationalism
- Is 1689 Federalism Dispensational?
- Am I a Dispensationalist?
- International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Baptism/Ecclessiology
- Bavinck: Visible/Invisible Church a Matter of Perspective
- Visible/Invisible Church a Matter of Perspective (Reformation Study Bible & J.I. Packer)
- Do Presbyterians Have Regeneration Goggles?
- Hodge on Owen’s Influence Over American Presbyterians
- Hodge’s (Baptist) Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
- The French Reformed Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
- Witsius: Baptism Belongs Only to the Elect
- 19th Century Scottish Presbyterian Criticism of Bannerman’s Visible/Invisible Church(es)
- Chrysostom on 1 Cor. 7:14
- Presbyterian vs Congregationalist vs Baptist Sacramentology
- Baptism to a Thousand Generations?
- The Evolution of Reformed Paedobaptism
- Keach on Inconsistent Congregationalists
- 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – Paedobaptist False Inferences
- 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – An Exposition
- Kline’s Argument Against Presbyterianism
- John Murray (the Baptist) vs James Bannerman (the Presbyterian) on The Church
- Ursinus on Who Ought to Come
- Meredith Kline: Baptist Criticism of WCF is Correct
- Who Should Be Baptized – Professors or Believers?
- A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
- Does Teaching Someone the Bible Make Them a Christian?
- à Brakel (the baptist) on the Visible/Invisible Church
- Implications of Israel as a Type
- 1 Cor. 7:14 – No Proof of Infant Baptism
- 1 Cor. 7:14 – The “Legitimacy” Interpretation
- A Critique of R. Scott Clark’s Covenant Theology
- Les & Tanner Talk Baptism Again
- The Westminster Assembly Debates Credopaedobaptism
- Coxe and Pink on Circumcision
- God’s Covenant Unfaithfulness?
- Blood of bulls and goats : blood of Christ :: physical Israel : spiritual Israel
- Church Membership: De Jure or De Facto?
- Satan’s Appeal to the Regulative Principle
- The Half-Way Covenant
- Paedobaptism and Forks
- Goodwin vs. Gillespie: An Old Testament Debate for Church Polity
- Debate: Jeffrey Johnson vs Michael Horton
- Waters of Promise: Finding Meaning in Believer’s Baptism
- Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology and Biblical Theology (Sam & Micah Renihan)
- Riddlebarger interviewed on Amillenialism
- Gordon Clark on the baptism of great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great–great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren
- John Norcott: Answers To Common Objections (1672)
- Of Infant Baptism (Owen) – Analysis
- Of Infant Baptism – John Owen
- Credobaptist vs. Paedobaptist : The Great Debate
- Contradiction in the Westminster Confession
John Owen
- Hodge on Owen’s Influence Over American Presbyterians
- Owen’s Fallacious Argument
- Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
- A Summary of Why Baptists Appeal to Owen
- Jones on Conditions
- Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
- New Covenant Union as Mystical Union in Owen
- Debating Owen: Jones & Beeke
- Kline on “Administration of the Covenant of Grace”
- The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
- Owen’s “Promised/Established” Covenant of Grace
- Baptists Couldn’t Possibly Know What They’re Talking About: Debating Owen, Round 473 – Lee Gatiss
- Owen vs. Baxter on Active and Passive Obedience in Justification
- Owen: New Covenant Conditional or Absolute?
- Owen on Changing His Mind
- Baptists Couldn’t Possibly Know What They’re Talking About: Debating Owen, Round 472
- Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
- Works of John Owen in PDF
- McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen
- The Oneness of the Church – John Owen
- Of Infant Baptism (Owen) – Analysis
- Of Infant Baptism – John Owen
- The Transtestamental (Retroactive) New Covenant
- Iron Can’t Sharpen Iron Without Honesty
- John Owen’s Commentary on the Old and New Covenants (Outline)
- Critique of Jon Zens’ “Is There A Covenant of Grace?”
Justification
- Federal Vision Baptists?
- Robert Rollock’s Treatise on Justification
- Stephen Cunha on Trinity Foundation Radio
- Make Christ’s Work of Salvation Plain
- Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision? — Reformed Libertarian
- Are Good Works More Than Fruit?
- OPC Report on Republication – Background
- Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
- Jones on Conditions
- Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
- John Gill: Good Works Necessary for Salvation?
- New Covenant Union as Mystical Union in Owen
- Timeline Snapshot of Justification Debate
- Owen contra Piper on Justification & Heaven
- Piper’s Foreword
- Guy Waters on Leviticus 18:5
- Nehemiah Coxe on Merit in LBCF 7.1
- Owen vs. Baxter on Active and Passive Obedience in Justification
- The Current Justification Controversy (on sale $3.98)
- The Emperor Has No Clothes
- The justification of the good works of the justified
- Norman Shepherd: What’s All the Fuss?
- Greg Nichols and Norman Shepherd
- Murray Conflicted on Future Justification?
- John Piper’s Justification According to Works
Sanctification
- Are Good Works More Than Fruit?
- A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger Than You
- Are Christians Totally Sanctified?
- The Key to Christian Growth: The Spirit or Self-Discipline?
- Cure of Souls (and Modern Psychotherapies)
- RT: Dirty Words of Counseling
Final Judgment
- Robert Rollock’s Treatise on Justification
- Romans 2:7 and 2:13
- Make Christ’s Work of Salvation Plain
- OPC Report on Republication – Background
- Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
- Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
- Owen contra Piper on Justification & Heaven
- Piper’s Foreword
- Owen vs. Baxter on Active and Passive Obedience in Justification
- Rick Phillips’ Stand
- The justification of the good works of the justified
- Not Everyone Who Says Lord, Lord
- Olevianus on the Final Judgment
- Murray Conflicted on Future Justification?
- “According to” works / “Basis of” works
- John Piper’s Justification According to Works
Calvinism
- Piper’s Two (Three) Wills of God and 1 Timothy 2:4
- Self Glorifying Vessels of Mercy?
- John Delling – Responsibility
Reformed Libertarian
- Are Civil Rulers Our Nurse Fathers?
- Yes, Masks Are a Conscience Issue
- Theonomy?
- Romans 13 Forbids Revolution, not Disobedience (and where Calvin erred)
- On Social Justice (3): Justice for the Poor & Needy
- A Note on Reformed Libertarianism
- Does Romans 13 Require Us to Obey "Shelter-in-Place" Laws?
- Is John MacArthur Right About Revolution?
- Romans 13: Person (Decretive), Office (Preceptive), or Both?
- De jure magistratum (On the Rights of Magistrates) – Beza
- “All Things Lawful” (LBCF 24.3/WCF 23.4)
- Rutherford’s “Lex, Rex” – Summary
- Nebuchadnezzar and Romans 13: Person (Decretive) or Office (Preceptive)?
- Moving ReformedLibertarian.com Posts to Contrast
- Is John MacArthur Right About Revolution? – Reformed Libertarian
- On Social Justice, pt 1: The Ambiguity of Social Justice — Reformed Libertarian
- On Social Justice (2): Defining (Social) Justice
- On Social Justice, pt 1: The Ambiguity of Social Justice
- Romans 13:6 “For this reason, pay your taxes” — Reformed Libertarian
- Romans 13: Person, Office, or Both? — Reformed Libertarian
- Abram the Voluntaryist? — Reformed Libertarian
- Nebuchadnezzar and Romans 13: Person or Office? — Reformed Libertarian
- Does “Abolish the Police” = “Abolish Law Enforcement”? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- R. Scott Clark’s knee-jerk appeal to Romans 13 — Reformed Libertarian
- Kuyper on the Consent Theory of Government — Reformed Libertarian
- Is vigilantism forbidden in the Word of God? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Rothbard on the Death Penalty — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- The Avenger of Blood in Modern Albania — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Riddlebarger on the Old Covenant Context of Romans 13 — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Ecclesiastes 8:2 — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Romans 13 – Where is the Exception? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- VanDrunen’s Argument for Religious Liberty — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- David Dykstra on Church & State (and Isaac Backus on Romans 13) — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- “All Things Lawful” (LBCF 24.3/WCF 23.4) — Reformed Libertarian
- Colonial Baptists on Rulers by Contract and Religious Taxation as Theft — Reformed Libertarian
- Colonial Baptists on Rulers by Contract and Religious Taxation as Theft
- Rutherford’s “Lex, Rex” – Summary — Reformed Libertarian
- The Benedict Option? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Vern Poythress’ Critique of Prisons — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Natural Law: Greek or Hebrew? — Reformed Libertarian
- Rutherford on Romans 13 and the Distinction Between Person and Office — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Calvin’s Geneva — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- A Case of Lex Talionis (Oshkosh) — Reformed Libertarian
- 1689 Federalism & America’s Founding
- Blood Feud and State Control: Differing Legal Institutions for the Remedy of Homicide During the Second and First Millennia B.C.E.
- Mohler’s Sacralist Commentaries
- John Frame on Gen 9:6, the Avenger of Blood, and Romans 13
- Jordan Cooper (Lutheran) Critique of VanDrunen’s Two Kingdoms
- De jure magistratum (On the Rights of Magistrates) – Beza
- Kline’s “Oracular Origin of the State” — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Justice or Public Utility? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision? — Reformed Libertarian
- Syllogisms on General Equity — Reformed Libertarian
- The Avenger of Blood — Reformed Libertarian
- A Single or Dual Rule of Morality? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
- Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision?
Two Kingdoms
(For much more of my writing on this, see my posts at http://www.reformedlibertarian.com)
- Podcast Discussion of Theonomy (According to Christ)
- 1689 Federalism & America’s Founding
- Two Kingdoms Debate (Tuininga v Boot) Analysis
- 1689 Federalism & Theonomy
- 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)
- The Natural Law State Church
- Kuyper on Natural Law
- Confused Kingdoms
- The Two Kingdoms Doctrine, Part Two: John Calvin (Tuininga)
- The two kingdoms doctrine: what’s all the fuss?
- James Anderson on DVD’s Natural Law 2K
- Good News for Two Kingdoms!
- 2K Natural Law or Theocratic Natural Law?
- God the benevolent Scientist
- Spectacles Prescribed: A Review of VanDrunen’s “A Biblical Case for Natural Law”
Politics
(For much more of my writing on this, see my posts at http://www.reformedlibertarian.com)
- Does Romans 13 Require Us to Obey "Shelter-in-Place" Laws?
- Two Kingdoms Debate (Tuininga v Boot) Analysis
- Review of “Bounds of Love”
- Simple Online Privacy Measures Everyone Should Be Taking (But Aren’t)
- 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)
- Considering Marriage
- Isaac Backus’ Comments on the Non-Establishment Clause
- ReformedLibertarian.com
- The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
- IHS Webcast: How Should Libertarians View the Civil War?
- Genetically Modified Organisms (Reaction to Ballor)
- Unaware
- German Homeschool Case May Impact U.S. Homeschool Freedom
- Genetic Roulette
- ETS 2012 – “Caring for Creation” Panel Discussion on Global Warming
- I Voted Today
- Angry Christians and the Devil’s Tactics
- U.N. COUNCIL SHUTS DOWN THOR HALVORSSEN’S TESTIMONY
- KONY 2012
- The Love of the World
- If I Were the Devil…
- A History of the United States of America
- Why Ron Paul?
- Bungee Jumping and Investing
- Pakistan Juxtaposed
- Interesting Info About John Lennon
- Gary North Pulling Strings of the Antiunion Movement?
- James Anderson on DVD’s Natural Law 2K
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Does what is “most accurate” necessarily possess any absolute value? And, can this question be answered from what is of relative value?
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Brandon, have you read “Jesus on Every Page”? I just got it and liked it but then I saw the author David Murray refers to the New Covenant as an administration of the Covenant of Grace. That doesn’t seem to square with Heb 8. What do you think? Does that affect how Mr Murray sees Jesus on every page in the OT?
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Hi Hardy, I have not read the book. Murray is a paedobaptist who subscribes to Westminster Federalism. I do not believe that is biblical. It will affect how he sees Jesus on every page. He will tend to flatten out typology and view Israel as the same as the church. He will tend to say that redemption from Egypt, rather than simply pointing towards redemption in Christ, was actually redemption in Christ – Israel as a people were redeemed in Christ. It will change the way he reads the obedience of Israel required in the Mosaic Covenant, and therefore how they related to Christ. I’m sure he still has many good things to say though.
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Hi Brandon,
I just realized that you had a webpage that is separate from the 1689federalism.com page. I have to say that I love the resources that you have put up here. It looks like I’ll be doing a lot of reading on this blog. Thanks again for your work.
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Thanks for the support. I hope the material is worthwhile. Keep in mind it has been written over the course of several years so you may see some development throughout
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Hi Bro….Some of the best things are right next to us. Thanks for this site Brandon.
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I wrote a refutation to millennium exclusion-dispensational punishment, taught by Witness Lee: https://www.scribd.com/doc/262114578/Partial-Rapture-and-Dispensational-Punishment-Nathan-Caze
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Not sure who admins this site. You have an article titled “The False Gospel of Witness Lee and the Living Stream Ministries” and you have used my photo on the cover. I took that photo in 1986 and I own the negative. I’d appreciate you not using that on a site critical to the one person that I respect so much. It is offensive to me. Please respect me and Mr. Lee and remove that photo.
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Hi Brandon, Grace to you brother in the Lord,
I reply to your comments on LSM and witness Lee. I am a believer in the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, the angel of jehovah,and as Colossians 1.17 , I will say -breathes , “in him all things are held together- I believe this’Him; to certainly be Christ.
Knowing that Gods communication is a desire for us all to know the full knowledge of the truth, I will say that your blog is set not on expressing the truth but wrongly framing a vessel (witness lee) used by god as a heretical satanic.
Your evidence is actually working against you because from what I can discern is the statements from Witness Lee are correct in his enlightenment of Gods message
My true concern is that you have have clearly fabricated many things and twisted them into a quilt of confusion. That expression of your interpretations now become the heresy through the spirit in which your blog is written. That spirit,being of neurological feast upon the tree of knowledge will lead you directly into the hand of satan.
The divine nature of Gods word requires divine interpretation. Human interpretation will always stumble when confronted with the truth.The bible is written in a language of Gods nature. It may seem foreign to mayn’t when Gods spirit is applied , the door to heaven is open.
This spirit can only be Christ. It is been blasted through out the word that Christ is the son and only through Christ can we touch God.
Witness lee never claimed to be an apostle..
Witness lee spoke with an extrodinay ability from a man with chines as his first language . I would emphasise that his divine expression surpassed any evangacal of the modern era’
Your criticism of hank Hannagraph is seriously flawed.
hanks controversy comes from those he has exposed. and it would be conclusive to determine that perhaps you maybe one of those burnt by the edge of the two edged sword of truth?
It was some years ago your post was released, perhaps by now you are of a different opinion?
Gods grace to you, his peace be on your heart as you seek the the truth.
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Hey Brandon, is there a way I can contact you privately?
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I am reading your reply to Richard on Is there a covenant of Grace.(from 2010) YOu give 0 scripture in your argument on there is a covenant of grace and redemption. I am 100% with Richard. remember Sola Scriptura.
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I love your diagram on Israel and the church. Great job!
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Re: “so you may see some development throughout” lol I’d hope so. 😉
Just found this site will be reading. Looks like solid food to go through. Thx
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hi brando, i would like to ask about what you mean by spiritual pride..quoting from-Because of the nature of spiritual pride, it is the most secret of all sins. There is no other matter in which the heart is more deceitful and unsearchable and there is no other sin in the world that men are so confident in… thanks for your good site… olan
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Hi Olan. The quote is from Jonathan Edwards. Here is a fuller context: https://contrast2.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/undiscerned-spiritual-pride/
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Hi Brandon, have you read the book “Covenant Theology: a reformed Baptist primer” by Douglas Van Dorn? I just got it, then went to see if you had reviewed it yet. I didn’t find it, but I would like your take on it.
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Hi Hardy,
I interviewed Van Dorn on this podcast about the book: http://confessingbaptist.com/interview083/
I also offer some brief qualifications here: http://www.1689federalism.com/covenant-theology-a-reformed-baptist-primer/
I haven’t done a full review of the book. I was intentionally not critical in the above comments & interview (because people were a little frustrated by my criticism of other 1689 Fed books like Johnsons’ so I was trying not to be overly critical), but there are many things in the book I don’t agree with (see above). It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but generally speaking it’s not something I recommend to people asking for where to start, though for those who have a grasp it’s worth chewing on.
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Brandon, neither of those links worked for me. Could you provide me with another way to access your interviews with Van Dorn?
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You might give it another shot. They’re working for me and they’re on completely different sites, so if they’re both not working, it’s probably something on your end. I’m not sure of another way to access it.
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brother blessings, I am harold lazaro of Cartagena Colombia, first of all use google translator for this question, sorry if you do not understand.
Brother, can you tell me your blog as rebut or argue against the continental federalism or the vision of the covenant of grace of three drive way?
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Hello Harold,
Are you looking for something against the Federal Vision (http://www.federal-vision.com/resources/joint_FV_Statement.pdf)? Or something else?
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