Cameron Porter

Just a man.

[Cameron Porter @JustaManiReckon]

"by death’s throes, that’s no marvel—I’m just a man." Gregory of Nazianzus

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@richbarcellos "My assumption that Calvin published his commentary on Romans in 1540 rests not on scriptural norms or principles, but on examination of the title page of the first edition of the commentary." ~ Richard Muller

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

The disproportionate attention that much of contemporary Christianity gives to personal growth and transformation, instead of God and Christ, represents, as Robert Letham put it, “a Pelagian tendency, with evangelicalism exhibiting all the anthropocentric characteristics of post-Enlightenment individualism.”

[Cameron Porter @JustaManiReckon]

"Let the voluptuous person say it out upon his death-bed, what pleasure or profit doth then abide with him of all his former sinful delights. Let him tell if there remain any thing of them all, but that which he would gladly not have to remain, the sting of an accusing conscience, which is as lasting, as the delight of sin was short and vanishing." ~ Robert Leighton

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"Here lies the foundation of the church. The foundation of the whole old creation was laid in an act of absolute sovereign power. Hereby God 'hanged the earth upon nothing.' But the foundation of the church is on this mysterious, immovable rock, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God;' — on the most intimate conjunction of the two natures, the divine and human, in themselves infinitely distant, in the same person." ~ John Owen

[Cameron Porter @JustaManiReckon]

"If, then, godhead and manhood, united in essence, do not preserve their peculiar natural constitution even in the union, they are confused, and neither godhead nor manhood remains, but another form of being which has grown out of them but is not they, is produced. What could be more irreverent or more disgusting than this - even to conceive of it, let alone to hold and teach it?" ~ Leontius of Byzantium

[Cameron Porter @JustaManiReckon]

"The common faith of Christians about this matter is, That the same Jesus who suffered made satisfaction to Divine Justice for their sins; but that his sufferings were in his Humane nature only, and the worth of them for satisfaction to Justice did arise from the Union of the Humane nature with the Divine in one person; so that the Godhead of Christ put an infinite value into his sufferings." ~ Nehemiah Coxe

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@IRBS_1689 Excellent! Praise God!

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T. "For in “the form of a slave,” which He took at the end of the ages for our restoration, He is inferior to the Father: but in the form of God, in which He was before the ages, He is equal to the Father." ~ Leo Maximus, doing partitive exegesis, informed by the Pauline Christology of Philippians 2:6-11

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"But He Who fulfilleth Perfection in His own Father, how can He be conceived of as inferior?" ~ Cyril of Alexandria

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

J.I. Packer opposed the classical doctrine of God in a few areas, but promoted fraternity with Rome in Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT).

R.C. Sproul promoted the classical doctrine of God (and said Aquinas was a “hero of the faith”), but strongly opposed ECT.

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@SteveMeisterVDM 😄👍👍

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"I have proposed three Creeds to your consideration, which ought thoroughly to be believed and embraced by all those that would be accounted Christians, viz. the Nicene Creed, Athanasius his Creed, and the Creed commonly called the Apostles; The last of which contains the sum of the Gospel; which is industriously opened and explained; and I beseech you do not slight it because of its Form, nor Antiquity, nor because supposed to be composed by Men; neither because some that hold it, maintain some Errors, or. whose Conversation may not be correspondent to such fundamental Principles of Salvation" ~ Hercules Collins

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"take this for a perpetual Rule, That whatever is good in any, owned by any, whatever Error or Vice it may be mixed withal, the Good must not be rejected for the Error or Vice sake, but owned; commended, and accepted" ~ Hercules Collins

[Cameron Porter @JustaManiReckon]

No person or situation prompted it. Just reading Vindiciae Veritatis and posting some tidbits.

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"Truly his blindness renders him an object of pity." ~ Nehemiah Coxe

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

“The trinitarian use of *persona* does not point to three wills, three emotionally unique beings, or as several eighteenth-century authors influenced by Cartesianism argued, three centers of consciousness; such implication would be tritheistic.”

- Richard Muller

[Cameron Porter @JustaManiReckon]

"The same glory, in every individual act of its assignation or ascription, is directed unto each person jointly and distinctly, on the account of the same divine nature in each of them. I need not produce any testimonies in the farther confirmation hereof; for, in all their writings against the Arians, they expressly and constantly contend that the holy Trinity (that is, the divine nature in three persons) is the individual object of all divine adoration, invocation, and all religious worship; and that by whatever personal name — as the Father, Son, or Spirit — we call on God, it is God absolutely who is adored, and each person participant of the same nature." ~ John Owen, in the context of citing Augustine and Cyril of Alexandria

[Tom Hicks @TomHicks2LCF]

In Matthew 24:36. Our Lord says, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”

Calvin helpfully writes: The answer is easy [!!]. For we know that in Christ the two natures were united into one person in such a manner that each retained its own properties; and more especially the Divine nature was in a state of repose, and did not at all exert itself, whenever it was necessary that the human nature should act separately, according to what was peculiar to itself, in discharging the office of Mediator. There would be no impropriety, therefor in saying that Christ, who knew all things, (John 21:17) was ignorant of something in respect of his perception as a man; for otherwise he could not have been liable to grief and anxiety, and could not have been like us, (Hebrews 2:17).

John Gill says that Christ speaks here “to the exclusion of all creatures, angels and men; but not to the exclusion of Christ as God, who, as such, is omniscient; nor of the Holy Spirit, who is acquainted with the deep things of God, the secrets of his heart, and this among others.”

[Jacob Trotter @jacobtrotter41]

Second London Baptist Confession

"light of nature" (1.1)

"light of nature" (1.6)

"the light of nature" (20.2)

"The light of nature" (22.1)

"it is the law of nature" (22.7)

"the law of nature" (26.10)

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"Love alone to the truth, and the welfare of thy soul, has given efficacy to their importunity who pressed me to this small service." ~ John Owen, on the apologetical/polemical enterprise (specifically contra-Biddle)