“Some dispensationalists...have suggested that love has replaced law in the Christian era”
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“While love as the fulfillment of the law does inform us that law-keeping alone is an inadequate measure of sanctification, that does not mean that law-keeping is optional to sanctification. We still must obey the laws (else why would the NT writers have been so painstaking in giving so many hundreds of them to us?)!” - Mark Snoeberger
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“Is the coronavirus God’s judgment for sin? The answer must be yes.”
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“All the effects of the curse are God’s judgment upon the sin of humanity, and [are] God’s continual, providential engagement with creation (cf. Isaiah 24:1-13, Lamentations 3:37-39).
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On Splitting Covenants
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“Christians are not under ‘the law,’ nor are they under ‘part of the law.’ This is no major loss, for we have the Law of Christ as our directive, a law operational on the basis of grace and the indwelling ministry of the Spirit. As far as splitting the New Covenant, the New Covenant is specifically directed to Israel, not the church.” - Matt Postiff
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Was Solomon a true believer who "lost his salvation"?
First Kings 11 records the tragic account of Solomon’s doing great evil against the Lord late in his life:
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A Covenant in the Garden?
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“Consider two points drawn from Strong’s treatment of the matter. First, Strong points out that though the word covenant does not appear in Genesis 2, the necessary elements of a covenant are clearly there. These necessary elements are the ideas of stipulation and reward.” - Ref21
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Another Unconvincing Case for Egalitarianism
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“While for Bartlett each side makes important contributions to our understanding of the Bible’s teaching on women and men, and ‘each side needs to move beyond the confines of the existing debate and closer to each other’…. Bartlett clearly argues for an egalitarian position.” - TGC
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The Covenantal Landscape of the Old Testament, Part 1
From the forthcoming book The Words of the Covenant: Old Testament Expectation. Read the series.
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Review: Laurence M. Vance’s Archaic Words and the Authorized Version
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“I hope to show that Laurence M. Vance’s book, Archaic Words and the Authorized Version is simply and fundamentally and clearly wrong, gloriously wrong, infamously wrong, precisely at the point of its central thesis.” - Mark Ward
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