1689 London Baptist Confession: Chapter 1 Part 2 Talking about God
INTRODUCTION Let me begin by reading chap. 2 para. 1, ‘The Lord our God is but one only living and true God; whose subsistence is in and of himself, infinite in being and perfection; whose...
1689 London Baptist Confession Chapter 1 Part 9-10: Interpretation and Authority
OUTLINE Interpretation Authority
1689 London Baptist Confession Chapter 1 Part 8-10: The Use of Scripture
OUTLINE Translation Interpretation Arbitration INTRODUCTION Roman Catholicism hated John Wycliffe translating the Bible into the common language of English. The Roman Catholic system was built on the idiosyncrasies of Jerome’s Latin Vulgate translation. For example,...
Chapter 1 Part 7-8: The Clarity and Reliability of Scripture
OUTLINE Clarity Reliability INTRODUCTION How many of you have heard of The Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647? ‘Massachusetts passed the Old Deluder Satan Act in 1647, laying the basis for public schools in America....
Chapter 1 Part 6 The Sufficiency of Scripture
OUTLINE Completeness of scripture Cessation of scripture Illumination of scripture Principles of scripture INTRODUCTION A challenge that every Christian faces is the question whether the bible is enough. In every age there is a challenge...
Chapter 1 Part 4-5 The Authority of Scripture
OUTLINE The witness of God The witness of evidences The witness of the Spirit INTRODUCTION By what authority do we accept the Bible to be the word of God? This is the question that the...
Chapter 1. Paragraph 2-3: The Canon of Scripture
OUTLINE OT NT INTRODUCTION 2. The Holy Scriptures, or the Word of God written, consist of all the books of the Old and New Testaments. These are: THE OLD TESTAMENT: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,...
Ch. 1 Para. 1. The Necessity of Scripture
OUTLINE The insufficiency of general revelation The necessity of special revelation The consequent necessity of inscripturated revelation INTRODUCTION Why do we need a Bible? At the time of the Reformation not everyone believed that we...
Do We Need Confessions?
INTRODUCTION You have likely heard the statements, ‘No Creed but Christ’ or ‘No Creed but the Bible.’ Firstly, let us consider the good in these statements. I as a younger Christian would have been heard...