Welcome

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

  1. Chrysostom on 1 Cor. 7:14
  2. Galatians 3 vs Romans 4
  3. Romans 2:7 and 2:13
  4. Jesus on “All Shall Know Me” (John 6:45; Is 54:13)
  5. Some Disagreement with Coxe on Galatians 3:17
  6. 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – Paedobaptist False Inferences
  7. 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – An Exposition
  8. Galatians 3:16
  9. Owen on Hebrews 6:3-6
  10. Gal. 3:18 – Generic Law and Promise, or Sinai and Messiah?
  11. They are not all Israel, who are of Israel (Rom 9:6)
  12. A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
  13. 1 Cor. 7:14 – No Proof of Infant Baptism
  14. 1 Cor. 7:14 – The “Legitimacy” Interpretation
  15. Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
  16. Paul’s Enthymemes on the Law (Gal 4:4-5)
  17. Deuteronomy 6:25
  18. Hebrews 10 & John 15
  19. The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
  20. 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)

Podcast Interviews

  1. The Story of Redemption (Sunday School Class)
  2. Particular Baptist Covenant Theology @ Cultivating Christ
  3. Two-Tier Typology & OT Salvation (Response to Christ the Center)
  4. Podcast: 1689F @ Reformed Brotherhood
  5. Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
  6. Podcast: Reformed Rookie – What is 1689 Federalism?
  7. Two Age Sojourner Podcast: Reformed Libertarianism & 1689 Federalism (Substance/Administration)
  8. SRR 92 Brandon Adams on Covenant Theology & Republication
  9. Podcast Discussion of Theonomy (According to Christ)
  10. Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
  11. R. Scott Clark’s Inconsistent Hermeneutic
  12. Overview of 1689 Federalism on the Reformed Northwest Podcast

1689 Federalism

(for an overview, start here: http://www.1689federalism.com)

General 1689 Federalism

  1. Re: Steffaniak’s “Reforming Credobaptism”
  2. Brief Comments/Clarifications on the T4G Covenant Theology Panel
  3. Do Presbyterians Have Regeneration Goggles?
  4. Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
  5. John Ball on Salvation Prior to Christ’s Death
  6. Was the Old Covenant an Administration of the Covenant of Grace?
  7. Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
  8. Does 1689 Federalism require “Regeneration Goggles”?
  9. Re: Did The Covenant Of Grace Begin In The New Covenant?
  10. John Gill & 1689 Federalism
  11. 1689 Federalism & America’s Founding
  12. Chris Caughey’s Open Letter
  13. Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
  14. A Summary of Why Baptists Appeal to Owen
  15. Les & Tanner Talk Baptism
  16. Did Spurgeon hold to 1689 Federalism?
  17. Augustine: Proto-1689 Federalist
  18. An “Objective” Covenant
  19. Chris Villi’s Analysis of 1689 Federalism
  20. Review of “Recovering a Covenantal Heritage”
  21. 1689Federalism.com Update
  22. The More Things Change…
  23. Did A.W. Pink Agree w/ 1689 Federalism?
  24. The Fatal Flaw testimony
  25. Why Hebrews 9 Is Referring To A Covenant Not To A Testament
  26. Problems with PRCA Covenant Theology
  27. 1689 Federalism
  28. Review of TDBCT & Interview
  29. Debate: Jeffrey Johnson vs Michael Horton
  30. An Unguarded Paedobaptist
  31. The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology
  32. New book coming soon: The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology, Pascal Denault
  33. Covenant Substance vs Administration in the 1689 LBCF
  34. Sam Renihan on Kingdom & Covenant
  35. Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology and Biblical Theology (Sam & Micah Renihan)
  36. Scripture does not yield up its treasures
  37. Early Thoughts on Covenant Theology

New Covenant

  1. Re: Jared Longshore “Are Your Children Members of the New Covenant?”
  2. Re: Reformed Forum on Jer 31, Typology, Owen, Subservient
  3. OT Saints Were Saved by the New Covenant (Quotes)
  4. Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
  5. Re: Gaffin on Hebrews 8
  6. Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
  7. Aquinas’ Distinction Between Membership in the New Covenant and the era of the New Covenant
  8. Re: James White’s “Newness of the New Covenant”
  9. Aquinas’ Retroactive New Covenant
  10. Tabletalk’s Retroactive New Covenant
  11. The New Covenant of Grace was a Present Reality for OT Saints
  12. Do Presbyterians Have Regeneration Goggles?
  13. Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
  14. John Ball on Salvation Prior to Christ’s Death
  15. The French Reformed Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
  16. Horton’s Retroactive New Covenant
  17. Jesus on “All Shall Know Me” (John 6:45; Is 54:13)
  18. Samuel Renihan on New Covenant Union
  19. Keach on Union with Christ
  20. Coxe on New Covenant Union with Christ
  21. Charles Simeon on the New Covenant
  22. Union with Christ is the New Covenant
  23. John Frame’s Retroactive New Covenant
  24. Owen on Hebrews 6:3-6
  25. Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
  26. Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
  27. Jones on Conditions
  28. Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
  29. New Covenant Union as Mystical Union in Owen
  30. Berkhof on Jer. 31:31-34
  31. M’Cheyne on the New Covenant
  32. The promise was sufficient & efficacious
  33. Joshua Moon “Jeremiah’s New Covenant: An Augustinian Reading “
  34. Calvin’s Retroactive New COvenant
  35. Owen: New Covenant Conditional or Absolute?
  36. Abraham Booth’s “The Kingdom of Christ”
  37. Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
  38. Petto: Conditional New Covenant?
  39. McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen
  40. The Transtestamental (Retroactive) New Covenant
  41. John Owen’s Commentary on the Old and New Covenants (Outline)
  42. Augustine on the New Covenant

Old Covenant

  1. Two-Tier Typology & OT Salvation (Response to Christ the Center)
  2. Re: Reformed Forum on Jer 31, Typology, Owen, Subservient
  3. Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
  4. Theonomy?
  5. Was the Old Covenant an Administration of the Covenant of Grace?
  6. Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
  7. How Christians Should Regard Moses (Luther)
  8. John Cotton: Proponent of the “Mixed Covenant” View?
  9. A Post-Fall Covenant of Works?
  10. Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
  11. Review of “Bounds of Love”
  12. Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
  13. Can R. Scott Clark be Truly Reformed?
  14. Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
  15. Paul’s Enthymemes on the Law (Gal 4:4-5)
  16. Deuteronomy 6:25
  17. Guy Waters on Leviticus 18:5
  18. 1689 Federalism & Theonomy
  19. Thomas Scott on the Mosaic Covenant
  20. Abraham Booth’s “The Kingdom of Christ”
  21. John Erskine’s “The Nature of the Sinai Covenant”
  22. Paedobaptism and Forks
  23. Baptists Couldn’t Possibly Know What They’re Talking About: Debating Owen, Round 472
  24. OPC GA Republication Study Committee
  25. Martin Luther: Mosaic Covenant About Temporal Things
  26. Clarification on the Mosaic Covenant and Eternal Life
  27. Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
  28. Summary of Venema’s Review of TLNF
  29. Calamy’s Survey of Mosaic Covenant Views
  30. McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen
  31. WCF/SDF/LBC 19.1,2 and Republication
  32. Kerux vs TLNF
  33. Iron Can’t Sharpen Iron Without Honesty
  34. John Owen’s Commentary on the Old and New Covenants (Outline)
  35. Confusing Law and Gospel (and the WCF)
  36. Pink on Moses (& Republication)

Typology

  1. Are Civil Rulers Our Nurse Fathers?
  2. Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
  3. 19th Century Scottish Presbyterian Criticism of Bannerman’s Visible/Invisible Church(es)
  4. R. Scott Clark’s Inconsistent Hermeneutic
  5. Israel as a Parenthesis in God’s Plan
  6. Kline’s Two-Level Fulfillment 184 Years Before Kingdom Prologue
  7. Amillennialism’s Two-Edged Sword
  8. Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
  9. They are not all Israel, who are of Israel (Rom 9:6)
  10. A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
  11. Implications of Israel as a Type
  12. Roger Williams on Israel as a Type of the Church
  13. Israel and the Church: See the Difference?
  14. Samuel Mather on Israel as a Type of the Church
  15. I Will Be God to You
  16. The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
  17. Blood of bulls and goats : blood of Christ :: physical Israel : spiritual Israel
  18. 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)
  19. Paedobaptism and Forks
  20. Objection to Israel as a type of the Church
  21. Jonathan Edwards on the Nation of Israel as a Type of the Church
  22. Riddlebarger interviewed on Amillenialism
  23. The Oneness of the Church – John Owen
  24. Hodge on the Visibility of the Church
  25. Mixing Types and Antitypes in the Blender

Abrahamic Covenant

  1. “Everlasting” and “Forever”
  2. Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
  3. Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 7: R. Scott Clark
  4. Muller on the Reformed History of Gal 3:17 (Translation & Interpretation)
  5. Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
  6. Two Age Sojourner Podcast: Reformed Libertarianism & 1689 Federalism (Substance/Administration)
  7. Abraham not Moses?
  8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hodge on the Abrahamic Covenant(s)
  9. T. David Gordon’s Dichotomous Abrahamic Covenant
  10. Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 6: 1689 Federalism
  11. Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 5: Glory Cloud Podcast
  12. Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 4: Contradiction
  13. Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 3: Royal Grant Proposal
  14. Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 2: Typological Merit
  15. Kline’s Abrahamic Covenant of Works 1: Murray and Shepherd
  16. John Brown on Galatians 3:16-17
  17. Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
  18. R. Scott Clark’s Inconsistent Hermeneutic
  19. Baptism to a Thousand Generations?
  20. A Twitter Exchange on Galatians 3:16
  21. Kline’s Two-Level Fulfillment 184 Years Before Kingdom Prologue
  22. Some Disagreement with Coxe on Galatians 3:17
  23. Backus Against Dominionism
  24. Galatians 3:16
  25. Gal. 3:18 – Generic Law and Promise, or Sinai and Messiah?
  26. A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
  27. Coxe and Pink on Circumcision
  28. Additional Answers to Founders Conference Q&A (Is the Abrahamic Covenant “of works”?)
  29. 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
  30. The Oneness of the Church – John Owen
  31. Is the Abrahamic Covenant Conditional or Unconditional?
  32. Hodge on the Visibility of the Church
  33. Pink on Circumcision

Covenant of Works

  1. Re: Sumpter, White, & Wilson on “Federal Vision Baptists?”
  2. Federal Vision Baptists?
  3. Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision? — Reformed Libertarian
  4. Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
  5. Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision?
  6. Leithart’s Monocovenantalism
  7. Is John Piper Confessional?
  8. Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
  9. Timeline Snapshot of Justification Debate
  10. The Silent Shift on 7.1
  11. Kline’s Covenant Creation & WCF 7.1
  12. Nehemiah Coxe on Merit in LBCF 7.1
  13. The Current Justification Controversy (on sale $3.98)
  14. Norman Shepherd: What’s All the Fuss?
  15. Greg Nichols and Norman Shepherd
  16. Clarification on the Mosaic Covenant and Eternal Life
  17. McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen

Davidic Covenant

  1. The Sure Mercies of David

Westminster Federalism

  1. Re: Reformed Forum on Jer 31, Typology, Owen, Subservient
  2. Re: Steffaniak’s “Reforming Credobaptism”
  3. Podcast: Responding to Reformed Forum on 2LBC 8.6 @ The Particular Baptist
  4. Re: New Geneva Podcast on Baptism
  5. John Ball on Salvation Prior to Christ’s Death
  6. Hodge’s (Baptist) Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
  7. The French Reformed Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
  8. 19th Century Scottish Presbyterian Criticism of Bannerman’s Visible/Invisible Church(es)
  9. Was the Old Covenant an Administration of the Covenant of Grace?
  10. Notes on a Podcast Discussion with Patrick Hines on Covenant Theology & Baptism
  11. Baptism to a Thousand Generations?
  12. The Heidelblog’s Monologue of Misrepresentation
  13. Heidelcast “I Will Be a God to You and to Your Children”
  14. Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
  15. Substance/Accidents = Substance/Shadows?
  16. They are not all Israel, who are of Israel (Rom 9:6)
  17. Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
  18. A Critique of R. Scott Clark’s Covenant Theology
  19. Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
  20. Hebrews 10 & John 15
  21. Kline on “Administration of the Covenant of Grace”
  22. The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
  23. Church Membership: De Jure or De Facto?
  24. Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
  25. Kline’s Comments against WCF/WLC
  26. Contradiction in the Westminster Confession
  27. Iron Can’t Sharpen Iron Without Honesty
  28. Confusing Law and Gospel (and the WCF)

Leviticus 18:5

  1. Promise, Law, Faith – A Review Article (JIRBS 20)
  2. Theonomy?
  3. SRR 92 Brandon Adams on Covenant Theology & Republication
  4. Acceptable Understanding of Mosaic Law (According to the OPC Report on Republication)
  5. Podcast Discussion of Theonomy (According to Christ)
  6. Are Good Works More Than Fruit?
  7. Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
  8. A Post-Fall Covenant of Works?
  9. Can R. Scott Clark be Truly Reformed?
  10. Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
  11. Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
  12. Timeline Snapshot of Justification Debate
  13. Guy Waters on Leviticus 18:5
  14. OPC GA Republication Study Committee
  15. Clarification on the Mosaic Covenant and Eternal Life
  16. Summary of Venema’s Review of TLNF
  17. WCF/SDF/LBC 19.1,2 and Republication
  18. Confusing Law and Gospel (and the WCF)

OPC Report on Republication

  1. Two-Tier Typology & OT Salvation (Response to Christ the Center)
  2. SRR 92 Brandon Adams on Covenant Theology & Republication
  3. Acceptable Understanding of Mosaic Law (According to the OPC Report on Republication)
  4. OPC Report on Republication – Background
  5. John Cotton: Proponent of the “Mixed Covenant” View?
  6. OPC Republication Report – Summary

20th Century Reformed Baptist View

  1. Two Age Sojourner Podcast: Reformed Libertarianism & 1689 Federalism (Substance/Administration)
  2. John Gill & 1689 Federalism
  3. James White doesn’t know what 1689 Federalism is
  4. Waldron’s Sermons on Covenant Theology
  5. Non-Dispensational, Calvinistic, Credobaptist Covenantalism Compass

NCT/Progressive Covenantalism

  1. Review: Captive to the Word of God – A Particular Baptist Perspective on Reformed and Covenant Theology
  2. CFTP Podcast: NCT & 1689 Federalism
  3. 1689 Federalism Response to Wellum’s “Progressive Covenantalism and the Doing of Ethics”
  4. Kingdom Through Covenant, a Review by Samuel Renihan
  5. Non-Dispensational, Calvinistic, Credobaptist Covenantalism Compass
  6. Critique of Jon Zens’ “Is There A Covenant of Grace?”
  7. Pink and NCT

Dispensationalism

  1. Is 1689 Federalism Dispensational?
  2. Am I a Dispensationalist?
  3. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

Baptism/Ecclessiology

  1. Bavinck: Visible/Invisible Church a Matter of Perspective
  2. Visible/Invisible Church a Matter of Perspective (Reformation Study Bible & J.I. Packer)
  3. Do Presbyterians Have Regeneration Goggles?
  4. Hodge on Owen’s Influence Over American Presbyterians
  5. Hodge’s (Baptist) Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
  6. The French Reformed Understanding of the Visible/Invisible Church
  7. Witsius: Baptism Belongs Only to the Elect
  8. 19th Century Scottish Presbyterian Criticism of Bannerman’s Visible/Invisible Church(es)
  9. Chrysostom on 1 Cor. 7:14
  10. Presbyterian vs Congregationalist vs Baptist Sacramentology
  11. Baptism to a Thousand Generations?
  12. The Evolution of Reformed Paedobaptism
  13. Keach on Inconsistent Congregationalists
  14. 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – Paedobaptist False Inferences
  15. 1 Cor. 10:1-5 – An Exposition
  16. Kline’s Argument Against Presbyterianism
  17. John Murray (the Baptist) vs James Bannerman (the Presbyterian) on The Church
  18. Ursinus on Who Ought to Come
  19. Meredith Kline: Baptist Criticism of WCF is Correct
  20. Who Should Be Baptized – Professors or Believers?
  21. A Presbyterian (Finally) Gets Acts 2:39 Right
  22. Does Teaching Someone the Bible Make Them a Christian?
  23. à Brakel (the baptist) on the Visible/Invisible Church
  24. Implications of Israel as a Type
  25. 1 Cor. 7:14 – No Proof of Infant Baptism
  26. 1 Cor. 7:14 – The “Legitimacy” Interpretation
  27. A Critique of R. Scott Clark’s Covenant Theology
  28. Les & Tanner Talk Baptism Again
  29. The Westminster Assembly Debates Credopaedobaptism
  30. Coxe and Pink on Circumcision
  31. God’s Covenant Unfaithfulness?
  32. Blood of bulls and goats : blood of Christ :: physical Israel : spiritual Israel
  33. Church Membership: De Jure or De Facto?
  34. Satan’s Appeal to the Regulative Principle
  35. The Half-Way Covenant
  36. Paedobaptism and Forks
  37. Goodwin vs. Gillespie: An Old Testament Debate for Church Polity
  38. Debate: Jeffrey Johnson vs Michael Horton
  39. Waters of Promise: Finding Meaning in Believer’s Baptism
  40. Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology and Biblical Theology (Sam & Micah Renihan)
  41. Riddlebarger interviewed on Amillenialism
  42. 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
  43. John Norcott: Answers To Common Objections (1672)
  44. Of Infant Baptism (Owen) – Analysis
  45. Of Infant Baptism – John Owen
  46. Credobaptist vs. Paedobaptist : The Great Debate
  47. Contradiction in the Westminster Confession

John Owen

  1. Hodge on Owen’s Influence Over American Presbyterians
  2. Owen’s Fallacious Argument
  3. Calvin vs 1689 Federalism on Old vs New
  4. A Summary of Why Baptists Appeal to Owen
  5. Jones on Conditions
  6. Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
  7. New Covenant Union as Mystical Union in Owen
  8. Debating Owen: Jones & Beeke
  9. Kline on “Administration of the Covenant of Grace”
  10. The Olive Tree (Rom 11:16-24)
  11. Owen’s “Promised/Established” Covenant of Grace
  12. Baptists Couldn’t Possibly Know What They’re Talking About: Debating Owen, Round 473 – Lee Gatiss
  13. Owen vs. Baxter on Active and Passive Obedience in Justification
  14. Owen: New Covenant Conditional or Absolute?
  15. Owen on Changing His Mind
  16. Baptists Couldn’t Possibly Know What They’re Talking About: Debating Owen, Round 472
  17. Gag Order @ the Puritanboard
  18. Works of John Owen in PDF
  19. McMahon’s Misrepresentation of John Owen
  20. The Oneness of the Church – John Owen
  21. Of Infant Baptism (Owen) – Analysis
  22. Of Infant Baptism – John Owen
  23. The Transtestamental (Retroactive) New Covenant
  24. Iron Can’t Sharpen Iron Without Honesty
  25. John Owen’s Commentary on the Old and New Covenants (Outline)
  26. Critique of Jon Zens’ “Is There A Covenant of Grace?”

Justification

  1. Federal Vision Baptists?
  2. Robert Rollock’s Treatise on Justification
  3. Stephen Cunha on Trinity Foundation Radio
  4. Make Christ’s Work of Salvation Plain
  5. Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision? — Reformed Libertarian
  6. Are Good Works More Than Fruit?
  7. OPC Report on Republication – Background
  8. Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
  9. Jones on Conditions
  10. Neonomian Presbyterians vs Antinomian Congregationalists?
  11. John Gill: Good Works Necessary for Salvation?
  12. New Covenant Union as Mystical Union in Owen
  13. Timeline Snapshot of Justification Debate
  14. Owen contra Piper on Justification & Heaven
  15. Piper’s Foreword
  16. Guy Waters on Leviticus 18:5
  17. Nehemiah Coxe on Merit in LBCF 7.1
  18. Owen vs. Baxter on Active and Passive Obedience in Justification
  19. The Current Justification Controversy (on sale $3.98)
  20. The Emperor Has No Clothes
  21. The justification of the good works of the justified
  22. Norman Shepherd: What’s All the Fuss?
  23. Greg Nichols and Norman Shepherd
  24. Murray Conflicted on Future Justification?
  25. John Piper’s Justification According to Works

Sanctification

  1. Are Good Works More Than Fruit?
  2. A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger Than You
  3. Are Christians Totally Sanctified?
  4. The Key to Christian Growth: The Spirit or Self-Discipline?
  5. Cure of Souls (and Modern Psychotherapies)
  6. RT: Dirty Words of Counseling

Final Judgment

  1. Robert Rollock’s Treatise on Justification
  2. Romans 2:7 and 2:13
  3. Make Christ’s Work of Salvation Plain
  4. OPC Report on Republication – Background
  5. Murray on Lev. 18:5 – Why Did John Murray Reject the Covenant of Works?
  6. Piper vs Owen on Romans 2:6-7, 13
  7. Owen contra Piper on Justification & Heaven
  8. Piper’s Foreword
  9. Owen vs. Baxter on Active and Passive Obedience in Justification
  10. Rick Phillips’ Stand
  11. The justification of the good works of the justified
  12. Not Everyone Who Says Lord, Lord
  13. Olevianus on the Final Judgment
  14. Murray Conflicted on Future Justification?
  15. “According to” works / “Basis of” works
  16. John Piper’s Justification According to Works

Calvinism

  1. Piper’s Two (Three) Wills of God and 1 Timothy 2:4
  2. Self Glorifying Vessels of Mercy?
  3. John Delling – Responsibility

Reformed Libertarian

  1. Are Civil Rulers Our Nurse Fathers?
  2. Yes, Masks Are a Conscience Issue
  3. Theonomy?
  4. Romans 13 Forbids Revolution, not Disobedience (and where Calvin erred)
  5. On Social Justice (3): Justice for the Poor & Needy
  6. A Note on Reformed Libertarianism
  7. Does Romans 13 Require Us to Obey "Shelter-in-Place" Laws?
  8. Is John MacArthur Right About Revolution?
  9. Romans 13: Person (Decretive), Office (Preceptive), or Both?
  10. De jure magistratum (On the Rights of Magistrates) – Beza
  11. “All Things Lawful” (LBCF 24.3/WCF 23.4)
  12. Rutherford’s “Lex, Rex” – Summary
  13. Nebuchadnezzar and Romans 13: Person (Decretive) or Office (Preceptive)?
  14. Moving ReformedLibertarian.com Posts to Contrast
  15. Is John MacArthur Right About Revolution? – Reformed Libertarian
  16. On Social Justice, pt 1: The Ambiguity of Social Justice — Reformed Libertarian
  17. On Social Justice (2): Defining (Social) Justice
  18. On Social Justice, pt 1: The Ambiguity of Social Justice
  19. Romans 13:6 “For this reason, pay your taxes” — Reformed Libertarian
  20. Romans 13: Person, Office, or Both? — Reformed Libertarian
  21. Abram the Voluntaryist? — Reformed Libertarian
  22. Nebuchadnezzar and Romans 13: Person or Office? — Reformed Libertarian
  23. Does “Abolish the Police” = “Abolish Law Enforcement”? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  24. R. Scott Clark’s knee-jerk appeal to Romans 13 — Reformed Libertarian
  25. Kuyper on the Consent Theory of Government — Reformed Libertarian
  26. Is vigilantism forbidden in the Word of God? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  27. Rothbard on the Death Penalty — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  28. The Avenger of Blood in Modern Albania — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  29. Riddlebarger on the Old Covenant Context of Romans 13 — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  30. Ecclesiastes 8:2 — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  31. Romans 13 – Where is the Exception? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  32. VanDrunen’s Argument for Religious Liberty — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  33. David Dykstra on Church & State (and Isaac Backus on Romans 13) — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  34. “All Things Lawful” (LBCF 24.3/WCF 23.4) — Reformed Libertarian
  35. Colonial Baptists on Rulers by Contract and Religious Taxation as Theft — Reformed Libertarian
  36. Colonial Baptists on Rulers by Contract and Religious Taxation as Theft
  37. Rutherford’s “Lex, Rex” – Summary — Reformed Libertarian
  38. The Benedict Option? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  39. Vern Poythress’ Critique of Prisons — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  40. Natural Law: Greek or Hebrew? — Reformed Libertarian
  41. Rutherford on Romans 13 and the Distinction Between Person and Office — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  42. Calvin’s Geneva — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  43. A Case of Lex Talionis (Oshkosh) — Reformed Libertarian
  44. 1689 Federalism & America’s Founding
  45. Blood Feud and State Control: Differing Legal Institutions for the Remedy of Homicide During the Second and First Millennia B.C.E.
  46. Mohler’s Sacralist Commentaries
  47. John Frame on Gen 9:6, the Avenger of Blood, and Romans 13
  48. Jordan Cooper (Lutheran) Critique of VanDrunen’s Two Kingdoms
  49. De jure magistratum (On the Rights of Magistrates) – Beza
  50. Kline’s “Oracular Origin of the State” — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  51. Justice or Public Utility? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  52. Theonomy, Greg Bahnsen, and the Federal Vision? — Reformed Libertarian
  53. Syllogisms on General Equity — Reformed Libertarian
  54. The Avenger of Blood — Reformed Libertarian
  55. A Single or Dual Rule of Morality? — Reformed Libertarian Blog
  56. 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)

  1. Podcast Discussion of Theonomy (According to Christ)
  2. 1689 Federalism & America’s Founding
  3. Two Kingdoms Debate (Tuininga v Boot) Analysis
  4. 1689 Federalism & Theonomy
  5. 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)
  6. The Natural Law State Church
  7. Kuyper on Natural Law
  8. Confused Kingdoms
  9. The Two Kingdoms Doctrine, Part Two: John Calvin (Tuininga)
  10. The two kingdoms doctrine: what’s all the fuss?
  11. James Anderson on DVD’s Natural Law 2K
  12. Good News for Two Kingdoms!
  13. 2K Natural Law or Theocratic Natural Law?
  14. God the benevolent Scientist
  15. 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)

  1. Does Romans 13 Require Us to Obey "Shelter-in-Place" Laws?
  2. Two Kingdoms Debate (Tuininga v Boot) Analysis
  3. Review of “Bounds of Love”
  4. Simple Online Privacy Measures Everyone Should Be Taking (But Aren’t)
  5. 1 Cor 5:13 is the general equity of Deut 22:21 (TRL)
  6. Considering Marriage
  7. Isaac Backus’ Comments on the Non-Establishment Clause
  8. ReformedLibertarian.com
  9. The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
  10. IHS Webcast: How Should Libertarians View the Civil War?
  11. Genetically Modified Organisms (Reaction to Ballor)
  12. Unaware
  13. German Homeschool Case May Impact U.S. Homeschool Freedom
  14. Genetic Roulette
  15. ETS 2012 – “Caring for Creation” Panel Discussion on Global Warming
  16. I Voted Today
  17. Angry Christians and the Devil’s Tactics
  18. U.N. COUNCIL SHUTS DOWN THOR HALVORSSEN’S TESTIMONY
  19. KONY 2012
  20. The Love of the World
  21. If I Were the Devil…
  22. A History of the United States of America
  23. Why Ron Paul?
  24. Bungee Jumping and Investing
  25. Pakistan Juxtaposed
  26. Interesting Info About John Lennon
  27. Gary North Pulling Strings of the Antiunion Movement?
  28. James Anderson on DVD’s Natural Law 2K
  29. Good News for Two Kingdoms!
  30. A Mormon With a Mission
  31. Which Sword?
  32. 2K Natural Law or Theocratic Natural Law?
  33. What Caused the Financial Meltdown? A Guide to Understanding the Collapse in 3 Hours
  34. Inside the Meltdown
  35. Every Man Did What Was Right In His Own Eyes
  36. God the benevolent Scientist
  37. Spectacles Prescribed: A Review of VanDrunen’s “A Biblical Case for Natural Law”
  38. John W. Robbins (1949-2008)
  39. Notice on Strict Background Check on Applicants for the Olympic Games and the Test Events
  40. Adopted person offended by Obama’s remarks
  41. John Delling – Responsibility
  42. Nazi Counterfeiters and the Fed
  43. Not so gentle reminders
  44. John 18:28-38
  45. Soviet Sees Religion as Threat to Policy
  46. Ron Paul Update
  47. The Idolatry of Political Christianity

Economics

(For much more of my writing on this, see my posts at http://www.reformedlibertarian.com)

  1. Ethics and Self-Interest: Mises, Clark, Piper, and Rand
  2. The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
  3. The American Economy is Not a Free-Market Economy
  4. Thoughts on the VFX Crisis
  5. I Voted Today
  6. Bungee Jumping and Investing
  7. Pope Talks Economics
  8. Measuring Time
  9. Gary North Pulling Strings of the Antiunion Movement?
  10. What Caused the Financial Meltdown? A Guide to Understanding the Collapse in 3 Hours
  11. Inside the Meltdown
  12. Understanding the sinking Titanic
  13. Self-Interest
  14. John W. Robbins (1949-2008)
  15. Hans Herman Hoppe on Empiricism
  16. The Myth of Adolescence
  17. Why I Loathe the USPS, Part 709
  18. Nazi Counterfeiters and the Fed
  19. Not so gentle reminders
  20. Gas station owner told to raise prices
  21. Gas-Out

Science

  1. “In the Space of Six Days”
  2. DG Hart on General Revelation
  3. John Byl: Cosmology: Explaining the Universe
  4. Science as an Aid to Interpreting Scripture
  5. ETS 2012 – “Caring for Creation” Panel Discussion on Global Warming
  6. The Folly of Scientism

Health

  1. Evidence Based Medicine?
  2. Biotoxin Illness
  3. I’m a Leper in a Leprous House
  4. Fix Your Gut
  5. Systemic Problems with the American Medical Association
  6. Eating and Thinking
  7. The Paleo Diet is Not Paleo
  8. The Calorie Myth
  9. The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
  10. The American Economy is Not a Free-Market Economy
  11. Food and The Fall
  12. Living the Bulletproof Life Live Webcast
  13. Vitamin C ’til You Poop
  14. Genetically Modified Organisms (Reaction to Ballor)
  15. There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly
  16. Genetic Roulette

Film

  1. Review: Word Pictures
  2. Tetelestai
  3. Prayers Are Being Answered
  4. Prayer Request
  5. Thoughts on the VFX Crisis
  6. New Website
  7. Meaning at the Movies: Becoming a Discerning Viewer
  8. I’m Making a Movie
  9. The Redemption of General Butt Naked
  10. Useless @ Storylab
  11. Why Are Christian Movies So Awful?
  12. “Useless” Wins Best Film
  13. Useless Award Nominations
  14. Useless
  15. Portfolio
  16. Film As Religion : Intro
  17. Food in the Arts: NOT BY BREAD ALONE
  18. Shutter Island
  19. Recent Work
  20. Who is Todd Gould?
  21. Jesus Camp – some thoughts ** 1/2
  22. Soviet Sees Religion as Threat to Policy
  23. My thoughts on “300”
  24. Spiderman 3 – Two Views
  25. The Nativity Story

Books

  1. Review: Captive to the Word of God – A Particular Baptist Perspective on Reformed and Covenant Theology
  2. Review of “Recovering a Covenantal Heritage”
  3. The Emperor Has No Clothes
  4. Review: Word Pictures
  5. Timeless Christian Books Sale
  6. Free eBook: Berkhof’s Systematic Theology
  7. Trinity Foundation E-Books
  8. The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology
  9. The Circle Maker (Review)
  10. Book Recommendations
  11. Three-Fold Division of the Law – Moral, Ceremonial, Judicial?
  12. True Spirituality : “Plus Nothing”
  13. Indiana Jones Gets Busted
  14. What is Saving Faith – Quotes
  15. Do Not Aim at Sensation
  16. Why Care About the Doctrine of Christ’s Imputation?
  17. John Owen – Overcoming Temptation and Sin
  18. Kuyper – Lectures on Calvinism
  19. The Perfect Christmas Gift
  20. Liberal Christianity and Sin
  21. Finally, someone agrees with my method of learning/teaching

Uncategorized

  1. Galatians essay (JIRBS) now available for free
  2. 1689Federalism.com Forum
  3. OT Saints Were Saved by the New Covenant (Quotes)
  4. Theolodudes Episode 37 – Romans 13 and Government
  5. Hodge on Owen’s Influence Over American Presbyterians
  6. SRR 93 Brandon Adams on Covenant Theology & Republication, Part II
  7. Abram the Voluntaryist? — Reformed Libertarian
  8. Augustine Quick Quote
  9. Natural Law: Greek or Israelite? — Reformed Libertarian
  10. EMFs
  11. A Post-Fall Covenant of Works?
  12. Implications of Israel as a Type
  13. Update to Church Membership Post
  14. The Westminster Assembly Debates Credopaedobaptism
  15. Evidence Based Medicine?
  16. Index Page
  17. TRL Links 3.4.15
  18. TRL Links 11.06.14
  19. How the News Makes Us Dumb
  20. The Republication Debate Gets Muddy
  21. Ebola Virus (Curable-?, Reversible-?, Preventable?)
  22. Is It Sinful for Unmarried Couples to Make Out?
  23. The Messianic Character of American Foreign Policy
  24. A Few Thoughts for Consideration in the Modern Republication Debate
  25. Concordism and the Nature of Science
  26. The Real Daniel Plan
  27. Chantry on Frame
  28. The Lure of Flattery
  29. Rich Mullins Friday
  30. Mosaic Health in Orange
  31. Rich Mullins Tuesdays
  32. Fun with TVTV
  33. Josh Garrels
  34. For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine
  35. Misérable means Miserable
  36. Hitler’s Medicine
  37. RescueTime
  38. We Need To Talk About Mumford
  39. Rich Mullins Mondays
  40. F.lux
  41. Evernote
  42. Thomas Kinkade
  43. Don’t Assume
  44. Top Posts of 2011
  45. Music Recommendations
  46. New Theme
  47. The Myth of Adolescence
  48. New Portico Website
  49. A Tribute to Marv Meyer

77 thoughts on “Welcome

  1. Harold Lazaro Castellar

    Brother, greetings again, I can tell or guide that book or materials should start reading to understand well the federalismo1689, by the way I identify with this covenantal position, I read only one document only written by samuel shepherd reniham called Kingdoms and covenants.

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  2. Harold Lazaro Castellar

    Thank Brother, God Bless, it is a great blessing this blog for my life despite having to use the Google translator. El Señor le Guarde Gracias y Paz.

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  3. Hans de Groot

    The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. And if you will be in the darkness, the light never will shine into your deepest heart.

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  4. Dave

    Hello Brandon. I hope you will listen to the latest Reformed Forum podcast that addresses the OPC report on republication. I look forward to your engagement with the analysis provided in the podcast and any supplemental comments you may have on the republication issue. It seems to me the hosts of the podcast were doing rhetorical gymnastics to make sure their views were consistent with Westminster. Thank you very much for all your work on this website.

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  5. Hi Brandon, What an amazing work you have done with this blog! I am 1689 federalist thanks all the consistent analysis of your blog. Please make videos! Thank you brother… also what do you think of thee “2016 – Republication: Report of the Committee to Study Republication submitted to the 83rd GA” http://opc.org/GA/republication.html
    They said that a possible view where the Mosaic covenant is somehow in substance the same as the covenant of works in not consistent with their standards?… I am also concerned with the statements like this in the report “the mandate of the committee is merely one of confessional exegesis”… Confessional exegesis? It sounds to me that before starting this study they had the intention to make their understanding fit into their standards rather than the Bible… what do you think Brandon? Thanks once again!

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    1. Hi there. I plan on writing a few posts on the OPC report as time permits. The report is correct that viewing the Mosaic covenant as a covenant of works is contrary to the WCF. Also, we must understand that the purpose of the committee was to determine which views are consistent with the WCF. How Presbyterians deal with controversies like this have greatly frustrated many people for a long time. Many Presbyterians, particularly Klineans lament that often the question of what Scripture teaches is not made the primary focus because of a per-committment to the confession regardless. This has to do with the fact that for Presbyterians, their ordination is tied to their Confession. Thus, rejecting part of the Confession means possibly ending your ministry. This has consequences for their views of subscription, which also affect how they handle these issues. In my opinion, the way that ARBCA was able to deal with controversy was much more profitable because the ecclessiology is different. Because membership in the association was voluntary and was not tied to anyone’s ordination or ministry, men were free to follow their conscience and to disagree and part ways – whereas in a Presbyterian context almost everything must be done to insure unity, regardless of disagreement.

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  6. Dan Clark

    Living Stream Ministries does not list Watchman Nee’s classic book titled “The Normal Christian Life” on their website. I found this peculiar, and in reading it myself found that Nee’s writing here disagrees with many of the current (unbiblical) teachings of Witness Lee and the Living Stream Ministry

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  7. Brandon, have you read “Truth or Territory: A Biblical Approach to Spiritual Warfare” by
    Jim Osman? It is a book by a dispensational Calvinist (I think) against pseudo-charismatic practices of spiritual warfare, such as rebuking and binding Satan and praying a hedge around an individual. If you have read it or heard about it, what do you think? Or do you know about any other reviews of it? Thanks.

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  8. Dave

    I recently retread your posts re: Les and Tanner. As much as I enjoy the Reformed Pubcast with Les and Tanner, I was extremely disappointed as I listen to Les’s interview with R. Scott Clark on the most recent episode of The Heidelcast podcast. The program was purportedly to discuss Les’s upcoming movie “Calvinist.” Clark couldn’t pass up the chance to inquire of Les’s “conversion” to the paedobaptist view. Les’s explanation of his change of mind demonstrated once again, as you noted in your posts, that he really does not understand 1689 Federalism.

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  9. Bachzart

    Hello Brandon. I’m a 1689er and a regular reader of your blog. Thank you for putting out so much helpful information on 1689 Federalism. Perhaps you’ve written on this, but I was wondering if you might be able to direct me to some resources on practical issues regarding paedobaptist/credobaptist church relations and questions of membership.

    Specifically, the types of questions I’m seeking answers to are:

    1. How is it biblical to view paedobaptist churches as true churches if, from our perspective, what they regularly practice and accept as baptism is not really baptism?

    2. If we believe that paedobaptism is not really baptism, and we believe the bible teaches that one must be truly baptized to become a member and be admitted to the Lord’s Supper, how can we invite those who were only baptized as infants to take communion with us?

    I’m struggling with the matter of consistency, as it seems to be a consistent position to not accept those baptized as infants as members or admit them to the table (due to their not really having been baptized). On the other hand, how can we not accept members of churches that we view to be true churches to the table?

    Any helpful resources you might be able to point me to would be greatly appreciated.

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    1. Hi there. Glad the material has been helpful.

      1. The 2LBCF does not use the language of “true church.” Instead, it says

      26.2. All persons throughout the world, professing the faith of the gospel, and obedience unto God by Christ according unto it, not destroying their own profession by any errors everting the foundation, or unholiness of conversation, are and may be called visible saints; and of such ought all particular congregations to be constituted.

      It then goes on to say

      3. The purest churches under heaven are subject to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan; nevertheless Christ always hath had, and ever shall have a kingdom in this world, to the end thereof, of such as believe in him, and make profession of his name.

      So paedobaptist churches are (at least in modern day) made up of visible saints. However, they also include their children and baptize their children. Thus they are subject to mixture and error. It doesn’t mean they are “no churches of Christ.” It just means their practice is in error. This is sometimes referred to as the esse (being) and the bene esse (well being) of the church.

      2. This is an issue that baptists have been split about, including baptists who signed the 2LBCF (as far as I understand). I would recommend studying the Open Communion controversies.
      http://equip.sbts.edu/event/conferences/session-9-william-kiffen-john-bunyan-open-communion-controversy-2/
      http://confessingbaptist.com/tag/close-communion/

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  10. Harold Andres Lazaro Castellar

    Hi brother, I have the following question

    the believers of the old covenant had real forgiveness of sins? or was it just a by-pass until the covenant of grace was legally formalized?

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  11. justin

    I read your article on SCJ and am curious if you have any resources/advise on trying to save someone from that cult who has been involved with it for an extended period of time. The entire thing is absolutely frightening, I cant believe people are actually falling for the lies.

    Thank you for your time,

    J

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    1. My advice for trying to save anyone is a lot prayer and love. Be there for them beyond just warning them of the theological errors. Know the gospel and trust the Lord to provide you with the words you need at the right time.

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  12. Nathan Hartman

    Hey there brother Brandon. Your blog has been a tremendous help and place a verification for me. Quick question, to save me a little bit of time, did Robert and James Haldane end up subscribing to 1689 federalism when they became Baptist?

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