Calvin: The Church Can ExistWithout Any Visible Appearance “Our controversy turns on these hinges: first, they [the Romanists] contend that the form of the church is always apparent and observable. Secondly, they set this form in the see of the Roman Church and its hierarchy. We, on the contrary, affirm that the church can exist … Read more
The Blatant Lie of Today’s Evangelicals:“We Hold to an Unchanging Moral Code” by Stuart DiNenno Why would anyone go to the modern American evangelical church for moral guidance or expect others to do the same? The claim so often made among evangelicals is that they proclaim eternal truths and an unchanging moral code. But it … Read more
The Danger of Believing in Racial Equality by Stuart DiNenno Racial equality. Whether we admit to it or not, we all know it isn’t really true. We all see many examples telling us that inequality is the reality. But we would like it to be true and it sounds innocuous enough, so why be concerned … Read more
Whitaker on the Corruption of the Greek Septuagint (LXX) “What authority, however, this version should command is uncertain. The ancients used to hold it in the highest estimation, and looked upon it as unique and divine. Epiphanius, in his book of Weights and Measures, says that the translators were not mere interpreters, but, in some … Read more
Graetz on the Jews Alliance with MoslemsDuring the Moorish Conquest of Spain “The Jews of Africa, who at various times had emigrated thither from Spain, and their unlucky co-religionists of the Peninsula, made common cause with the Mahometan conqueror, Tarik, who brought over from Africa into Andalusia an army eager for the fray. After the … Read more
Hodge on the Distinctive Character of Individual Nations “It cannot be denied that there is a great difference in men in this respect. Some are morose, irritable, and unsocial in their dispositions, others are directly the reverse … They may be born with these distinctive traits of character, and such traits beyond doubt are in … Read more
Anti-Christianity is the Essence of Being a Jew by Stuart DiNenno Although when it suits them to do so the Jews will sometimes claim to be just another white ethnic group, the reality is that their identity consists primarily in being anti-Christian. Being a Christ hater is not only part of being a Jew, it … Read more
Calvin: A Prayer for Holiness “Now let us kneel down in the presence of our good God, with acknowledgement of the great number of faults and offenses that we cease not to commit daily against His majesty, praying Him to make us feel them better than we have, so that we may endeavor to amend … Read more
Barnes Against the EgalitarianInterpretation of Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) “All are on a level; all are saved in the same way; all are entitled to the same privileges. There … Read more
Lloyd-Jones: Christians are Mistaking “Niceness” for Grace “Christian people are mistaking natural qualities — niceness, a veneer of politeness — for true Christian grace. It seems that we are no longer capable of differentiating between the two. How often today is affability mistaken for saintliness! ‘What a gracious man he is,’ they say. What they … Read more