THE FAITH PURE, BOLD, PRACTICAL
Fear God,
it is the
beginning
of wisdom.
When you
fear only God
you don't
fear man
(and man's
opinion
of you),
which enables
you
to pursue
wisdom.
What are the conditions of admission into Christ's Kingdom? Simply practical recognition of the authority of the sovereign.
- A. A. Hodge
Yes, James White has finally summoned the courage to 'directly' confront the PuritanBoard's Steve Rafalsky. He's decided to do it using the account of fellow Critical Text compatriot and acolyte TimV. Yes, that's right, James White is writing posts on the PuritanBoard using the account of his fan TimV. And as could be predicted...he is making a complete fool of himself. Keep writing, 'TimV'...
Five solas, doctrines of grace, covenant of redemption (Covenant Theology is not the servant of infant baptism), Traditional Text, King James Version only; doing the two great commandments of Christ at the practical level (i.e. actually doing them); and recovering by degree the full image of God. This is the foundation I stand on and build upon.
ESSENTIAL I ~ II ~ III ~ IV ~ V ~ VI ~ VII ~ VIII ~ IX ~ X ~ XI ~ XII ~ XIII ~ XIV ~ XV ~ XVI ~ XVII ~ XVIII ~ XIX ~ XX ~ XXI ~ XXII ~ XXIII ~ XXIV ~ XXV ~ XXVI ~ XXVII ~ XXVIII ~ XXIX ~ XXX ~ XXXI ~ XXXII ~ XXXIII ~ XXXIV ~ XXXV ~ XXXVI ~ XXXVII ~ XXXVIII ~ XXXIX ~ XL ~ XLI ~ XLII ~ XLIII ~ XLIV ~ XLV ~ XLVI ~ XLVII ~ XLVIII ~ XLIX ~ L ~ LI ~ LII ~ LIII ~ LIV ~ LV ~ LVI ~ LVII ~ LVIII ~ LIX ~ LX ~ LXI ~ LXII ~ LXIII ~ LXIV ~ LXV ~ LXVI ~ LXVII ~ LXVIII ~ LXIX ~ LXX ~ LXXI ~ LXXII
STICK DRAWINGS & DIAGRAMS 1 (Note on 1) ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5
--Fuse the Word of God into Memory, Will, and Understanding Prayer and Fasting -- (of --) Acute Warring of the Holy Spirit with the carnal spirit -- (storms struggled through; extending limits to glorify God by doing it when it's most difficult) |
(Short Essay On My Reading History)
The practical, experimental level of the faith (the Puritans called it experimental Calvinism) is for those ready to leave off laying the foundation over and over and begin building the house (see Calvin's commentary on Hebrews 6:1).
Psalms 27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path...
"God examineth with trials, the devil examineth with temptations, the world examineth with persecutions."
- Henry Smith
"The word of God . . . is the light to our paths, the key of the kingdom of heaven, our comfort in affliction, our shield and sword against Satan, the school of all wisdom, the glass wherein we behold God's face, the testimony of his favour, and the only food and nourishment of our souls."
- Geneva translators, 10 April 1560
"When the heart is cast indeed into the mould of the doctrine that the mind embraceth - when the evidence and necessity of the truth abides in us - when not the sense of the words only is in our heads, but the sense of the thing abides in our hearts - when we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for - then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men."
- John Owen
"Where the Puritans excelled was at bringing this high view of God
down to the level of ordinary life. One Puritan woman - the wife of a
soldier in Cromwell's army - defined Christianity as
'that universal habit of grace which is wrought in a soul by the
regenerating Spirit of God, whereby the whole creature is designed up
into the Divine will and love, and all its actions designed to the
obedience and glory of its Maker.'
By defining the Christian faith in this way, she was making a
connection between the doctrines of grace and daily experience."
- the Doctrines of Grace,
Boice/Ryken
"Previously, men had looked to the Church for all the trustworthy knowledge of God obtainable, and as well for all the communications of grace accessible. Calvin taught them that neither function has been committed to the Church, but God the Holy Spirit has retained both in His own hands and confers both knowledge of God and communion with God on whom He will."
- B. B. Warfield (from his essay Calvin as a Theologian)
A plain path puritan. That means the faith that is pure, bold, and practical. Five solas. Doctrines of Grace. Covenant of Redemption. Experimental Calvinism. No clericalism, ritualism, formalism, or moralism. The devil's nightmare.
Holy Bible, AV1611
Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
On War - von Clausewitz
Wealth of Nations - Smith
Fourth Way - Ouspensky
Lives - Plutarch
History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
"The fearful are in the forlorn of those that march for hell; the violent and valiant are they which take heaven by force: cowards never won heaven. Say not that thou hast royal blood running in thy veins, and art begotten of God, except thou canst prove thy pedigree by this heroic spirit, to dare to be holy despite men and devils."
- William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour
"As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace; so there is not scarce anything more despised or scorned by many in the world than that any should profess that there hath been such a work of God upon themselves, or on any occasion declare aught of the way and manner whereby it was wrought... yea, the enmity of Cain against Abel was but a branch of this proud and perverse inclination."
- John Owen, A Discourse Concerning The Holy Spirit
The antithesis of vanity is: faith. The antithesis of worldly pride is: repentance. The antithesis of self-will is: descent-of-the-dove God's will.
9 Comments:
Sir, I have no idea who you are, or why you speak evil of fellow Christians, nor why you are spreading this lie, but I ask you to withdraw it, apologize to whoever TimV is, and repent of such activities. Thank you.
James White
www.aomin.org
The Black Pope flies to the mountain. The rock has been delivered. When the east awakens there will be contact, Dr. Oakley. Hestcott and Wort have the masks, and the rains will deliver their intended prize.
I'm so sorry...I did not see the "ct" when I first posted. Now I know who you are, now I know why you are lying about me, now I know that I should not have bothered to even correct you. Sorry to have wasted my keystrokes.
James White
www.aomin.org
Nice for an 'ultimate authority' scholar to have stopped by anyway...
Well, I certainly don't know who TimV is, but you are definitely correct about one thing, viz., he is showing himself to be quite the ignoramus.
TimV in that thread reminds me of what evolutionists and atheists have had to descend into. He can't admit there is any argument or intelligence on the side opposite him, so he is only left with ridiculously calling someone like Steve Rafalsky a 'fundie' and suggesting he is ignorant and all that.
Critical text scholars are now where evolutionists are. They have no choice but to deny reality and do it in front of everybody. Otherwise they can't save their vanity, worldly pride, and self-will.
I find it quite ironic a guy who CLAIMS to be a distinguished chair at a Dutch university and has been repeatedly CHALLENGED to debate this issue BUT not only REFUSED but also LIED about a debate that never took place (quick, name me who the moderator was, sir)...would post trash like this.
The God you claim to serve will not look past your hypocrisy, sir.
Yes, I hold the distinguished Voetius Chair at the University of Utrecht. Yet a simple and plain ploughboy knows the voice of the Shepherd as I know the voice of the Shepherd. The traditional received text of the Word of God is the voice of the Shepherd. The Roman Catholic Beast church lost that battle during the Reformation. God's elect, by the grace of God, will make sure the victory remains secure. You, on the other hand...
I'd like a hit of whatever it is you're smoking; I could use a good delusion or ten.
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