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The results from our first-ever State of Theology survey in Canada highlight widespread confusion about God and His Word among evangelicals.
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We should never add or take away from God’s law.
Watch as @JVFesko explains the doctrine of Christian liberty, reminding us that God alone is the Lord of the conscience and sets the standards for the Chrisitan life.
Studying theology is not just an intellectual exercise—it has a direct impact on our lives.
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A prayer for Reformed Theological Seminary @ReformTheoSem as we begin our 60th year (2026-2027).
Based on Herman Witsius’ prayer for the seminary in Franeker April 16, 1675. Translated by John Donaldson & introduced by William Cunningham of the @freechurchscot (in 1856).
The final simulation of Ben Davidson's model at 0.05° with 5.5M cube cells globally. I think I've hammered out the 'under the hood' physics as much as possible. I'll also have an article later today simulating Zacharias' pole location at the same zoom.
I'm moving into building out 0.01° with 138M cube cells globally now, though. That will be my final addition. Additionally, I will try to integrate the results into a user-interactive tool for max fun. Each simulation at that zoom level will take days though, so it will be a slow going process. 🫡
Puritan Thomas Hall (1610-1655) on the lawful use of taunts.
"Ironia: ironic, taunting speeches may lawfully be used, as occasion serves.
(1) God himself used them in Genesis 3.22. "The man is become as one of us" - as one of the Trinity, whereby God declares his great disdain of their affectation of an impossible preeminence in being like to God, as if he should say: “By his sin he is become most unlike to us. See how well Satan has performed his promise to man, is not he become like one of us? And hath not he gained a goodly measure of knowledge, both of good and evil?”
So Judges 10.14. “Go, cry to the gods which ye have chosen.” It is an ironic upbraiding them for their idolatry, which they found so comfortless, in their greatest need, their idols being no way able to deliver them.
So in Isaiah 14.4, 8-9, God himself teaches his people to deride the proud king of Babylon.
(2) Christ used it in Matthew 26.45: “Sleep on,” which is to say: “Go to now, sleep on, take your rest if ye can, behold a perilous time is at hand, wherein ye shall have little list or leisure to sleep.”
(3) Elijah used it to the worshipers of Baal in 1 Kings 18:27. He mocks them and bids them cry aloud to their drowsy or busy god, peradventure their Baal was asleep, or in a journey, etc.
So Micaiah bids Ahab “Go up and prosper,” which is to say: “Go up and perish” (1 Kings 22.15).
So Job (17.2) taunts at his false friends, in an ironic expression: “No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you,” which is to say: “In your own conceit, there are no men in the world but you. No doubt but reason has left us, and is given wholly unto you; yea wisdom is so tied to your persons that her conservation and mine depends on yours.”
So Amos 4.4-5: “Come to Bethel, and transgress at Gilgal, multiply transgressions,” etc., which is to say: “Since by no means ye will be reclaimed, but are desperately set on sin; go on, and fill up the measure of your sin.”
Thus Solomon, without any breach of charity, or stain of holiness, checks the young man’s folly [by saying in] Ecclesiastes 11.9: “Rejoice O young man, etc. but know,” etc. By an ironic concession, he bids him rejoice and take his pleasure, etc., and then marries all with a stinging but, in the end.
So Paul with a holy scoff, derides the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 4.8, 10: “Ye are full, ye are rich, you reign as kings,” etc. “we are fools, ye are wise,” etc. “we are nothing, you are all.” Etc.
@BerithPress Need to revisit covenant theology. It’s getting to the point that it’s assumed, and thus churches are becoming illiterate on the topic.
For all the rhetoric on Covenant Theology is THE interpretive grid, there is little on HOW to read all of scripture “covenantally”.