In the excerpt from the Epistle To Diognetus below, notice the reference to "faith, to which alone", followed by the concluding re...

"And, like as the flame burneth the wood without the help of the light, and yet the flame cannot be without the light; so is it assured...

The point of Romans 8:32 is that this love of God for his one and only Son was like a massive, Mount Everest obstacle standing between God a...

How we view the gospel affects our relationship with God, our relationships with other people, our priorities, our objectives, the sense of ...

J. Gresham Machen died on this day 81 years ago. Here's something I saw Tim Roof link on Facebook about Machen's last words. And h...

All praise to Thee, eternal Lord, Clothed in a garb of flesh and blood; Choosing a manger for Thy throne, While worlds on worlds are Thin...

A common rap against vicarious atonement, penal substitution, sole fide, and imputation is the charge of legal fiction. Merit and demerit a...

"For, even as Jesus Christ is stronger than Adam was, so is his righteousness more mighty than the sin of Adam. And, if the sin of Adam...

From a sixteenth-century book about justification, titled The Benefit Of Christ's Death : let us run unto [Christ] with the feet of li...

Recently I had an impromptu debate on Facebook regarding the Reformed doctrine of imputation. My exchange alludes to this post as a frame o...

http://upper-register.typepad.com/blog/2017/07/justification-and-union-with-christ-part-6.html

"Christ came to earth as God to take upon Himself the flesh and blood of our human nature. That is a profound statement. The baby in th...

The stock objection to imputation (or vicarious atonement/penal substitution generally) is that you can't detach the merit/demerit of ...

http://theaquilareport.com/why-imputation-is-not-a-legal-fiction/ There are a variety of responses, but the best one, it seems to me, resi...

I'm going to begin by making a legal and political point, then use that to segue into a theological point. Liberals mock or revile the...

Here is the heart of the issue between Protestants and Roman Catholics. For those who are following along in my series on “chain-of-being” o...

As I was going to Bethlehem-town, Upon the earth I cast me down All underneath a little tree That whispered in this way to me: "Oh,...

Bryan Cross has contested my article on Augustine and Justification from yesterday ( here and here ). But he doesn't do it by challengi...

http://www.reformation21.org/articles/did-adam-and-eve-really-exist-a-review.php

One of the sideshows from the recent Dave Armstrong threads involved a discussion of “the righteousness of Christ imputed to believers”. ...