The Atonement
A Protestant Response to “Grace: What It Is and What It Does”
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Recently, I was asked by a friend of mine, Chris Poteet, to give a response to this article, in which a Roman Catholic is arguing for his view of justification. Following is my response. From the outset, I must candidly confess that a thoroughgoing, point-by-point rebuttal of the positions argued for in the article above is […]
A Survey of the Usage of “Tsedek/Tsedekah” in the Hebrew Old Testament
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Introduction While the issue of authority no doubt underlay the Protestant Reformation, so that the basis upon which men began to question the corruption of Rome was only the “formal principle” of sola scriptura; and while the sole weapon which the Reformers ever wielded against their doctrinal foes was the grammatico-historical hermeneutic; it is no less […]
A Thought on Penal Substitution
Sunday, July 8th, 2007It is a tragedy of the highest degree that so many theologians today are emphasizing such models of the atoning work of the Savior as Christus Victor to the minimization of penal substitution. The tragedy is not that the reality of Christ’s conquering Satan through his work on the cross is acknowledged or even emphasized, […]
Is Penal Substitution Biblical?
Friday, August 18th, 2006In all of our zeal to contend for every doctrine of the bible (as commendable as such an attitude is), we would do well to remember that only a relatively few doctrines are so vital for the purity of the gospel that, to deny them is, in essence, to corrupt the good news of salvation […]
Who Really Limits the Atonement?
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005The topic of the extent of the atonement has certainly been a point which has sparked many fiery debates among evangelical Christians. The typical understanding of this debate has been that full-fledged Calvinists have limited the atonement, whereas Arminians/Amyraldians (4 point Calvinists) have ascribed to an unlimited atonement. But is this really the case? Let’s […]