The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

The Internet is upset about the entrance of protesters in Minneapolis into a Baptist church tgis past weekend.  On one side of the ideological divide stands the Conservative Chorus proclaiming that Christ would never have done such a thing, & on the other side, those who support the protesters &/or their general message remind us that Yeshua turned over the moneylenders’ tables violently, etc.  Why don’t we all just sit down & look at what the Bible itself has to say about what was happening that day?  And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” 14  And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15  But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he d...

When we use the word “Person” when talking about the the Trinity, what exactly do we mean? The proper term is “hypostasis.” An individual, complete substance existing entirely in itself; an incommunicable substance. Illustrated, this is pretty straightforward.   In Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker, David Tennant, & Ncuti Gatwa are 3 separate hypostases of a single personal being called “the Doctor.”   It amazes me how many people who think the concept of the Trinity is a difficult concept to grasp or that is terribly irrational watch Dr. Who & have no problem with this sort of ontology but when it comes to God, they totally check out.   As to God: A Person is an individual, complete substance existing entirely in itself; an incommunicable substance. God’s attributes are the same with respect to each Hypostasis.   As to essence: infinite, eternal, unchangeable; as to attributes: being, wisdom, power, justice, holiness, goodness, & truth.   As to identity, ...

SOTERIOLOGY  Acts 24 clearly states that there is a resurrection of the Just and the Unjust.   Acts 24:14–15 (ESV): …I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, 15 having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.  We call this the General Resurrection.   Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 are clear that we are in Adam as our federal representative in the Fall and in Christ as our federal representative in redemption.   Romans 5:15 (ESV): But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for man 1 Corinthians 15:22–23 (ESV): For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to ...

The Gospel comes to us as a command. (I John 3:23, Acts 17:30) In order to avoid sinning, you must obey God by exhaustively, meticulously, & perfectly loving Him first, then all others, then yourself in that order in order. Ergo, to obey the command to repent of your works righteousness at its root & believe (1) you must comply with (2) or else.. You have sinned so that righteousness may abound (Romans 6:1) Sin is, by definition, Works Righteousness, insofar as it’s a never ending struggle to merit God’s grace & goodness (Romans 7) Ergo, if you don’t comply with 2 in order to repent of your rooted works righteousness, then you are refusing to lay down your works righteousness while trying to repent. That’s why regeneration precedes faith (Romans 8:5 - 11)  So when you put it all together, God must restrain us from failing to exhaustively, meticulously, & perfectly love Him first &tc when it comes to this issue or else we would never be able to exercise saving fa...

Romans 1 exposited correctly avoids Is - Ought reasoning, Vicious Circularity, Overspecification, Category Errors, Special Pleading, & Straw Manning what God says about the purpose of the created order without substituting visible human, animal, & botanical images for God’s invisible attributes & authority.   Reading “natural” as “heteronormative” or “hegemonic male headship” or “Protestant” or “White” or “like me” & “unnatural” as “anything that varies with the (alleged) created order results in up to 6 logical, exegetical, & epistemic fallacies. 1.   Is - Ought/Naturalistic Fallacy :   Deducing L) abstract moral principles by way of the state of the created order.  2. Vicious Circularity : Substituting the (alleged) pattern of creation as a sufficient epistemic warrant for ethical reasoning in lieu of the existence, attributes, & authority of God replaces the one thing that can provide the necessary truth conditions to know, understand, ...

  Shema & Historical Prologue  1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, He withdrew from Galilee and came to the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan.  2 And great crowds followed Him, and He healed them there. General Stipulations   3 And Pharisees came to Him, testing Him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?” 4 And answering He said, “Have you not read that the  One  having created from  the  beginning ‘made them male and female,  5 and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will become into one flesh’? —-  6 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God united together,  let  man not separate.” Specific Stipulations  7 They say to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He says to them, “In view of your hardness of heart, Moses allowed...