In our last post we looked at the reality that there is a diversity of spiritual gifts in true elders. I commented that this has important practical implications for the church and its elders. But there is also diversity in other respects, specifically...
Parity in the Eldership and the Need for Balance (part 2 of 5)
A few years ago a friend of mine mistakenly affirmed that I believed in the absolute parity of the eldership. I informed him, and let me now inform all of my readers, that I emphatically do not believe in such a view of parity. I believe, in fact, in three...
Parity in the Eldership and the Need for Balance (part 1 of 5)
We distribute a book as a Seminary that I helped to write and edit many years ago. It is entitled, In Defense of Parity. In that short volume, I with a few other men defend the notion (which many of us hold as Reformed Baptists) that there is no official distinction...
John Owen—A Caveat, part 13
Conclusion If Owen was indeed wrong as we have seen, what can we learn from this fact? It is to answer this question that I have taken so much time to firmly disagree with the properly revered John Owen. I believe there is something to be learned from the...
John Owen—A Caveat, part 12
So far, I have covered seven points in my case against John Owen’s preterist view of 2 Peter 3. Let me add another argument in this post. Here is my eighth objection to Owen’s exegesis. The Conclusive Case against Owen’s Interpretation Continued The whole Olivet...
John Owen—A Caveat, part 11
So far, I have covered six points in my case against John Owen’s preterist view of 2 Peter 3. Let me add another argument in this post. Here is my seventh objection to Owen’s exegesis. The Conclusive Case against Owen’s Interpretation Continued Owen assumes that the...
John Owen—A Caveat, part 10
So far, I have covered five points in my case against John Owen’s preterist view of 2 Peter 3. Let me add another argument in this post. Here is my sixth objection to Owen’s exegesis. The Conclusive Case against Owen’s Interpretation Continued Owen takes 2 Peter 3:4...
John Owen—A Caveat, part 9
So far, I have covered three points in my case against John Owen’s preterist view of 2 Peter 3. Let me add a fourth in this post. The Conclusive Case against Owen’s Interpretation Continued Owen takes Isaiah 65:17f. as a reference to the present...
John Owen—A Caveat, part 8
So far I have covered three points in my case against John Owen’s preterist view of 2 Peter 3. Let’s add a fourth in this post. The Conclusive Case against Owen’s Interpretation Continued Owen takes the words of verse 4 (“the promise of His Parousia”) as a reference...
John Owen—A Caveat, part 7
In the last post I mentioned the first two points of my case against Owen’s preterist interpretation of 2 Peter 3, here I add a further argument in my case. The Conclusive Case against Owen’s Interpretation Continued Owen takes Luke 21:34, 36 as a reference to the...