Green Pastures: A Primer on the Ordinary Means of Grace J. Ryan Davidson*

This book, written for the person in the pew, is a helpful guide to understanding the ordinary means of grace. The book seeks to make the confessional position clear and to demonstrate it through the pages of the...

Richard C. Barcellos

In J. V. Fesko’s contribution to a book in honor of Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., he addresses an important issue—the antiquity of biblical theology. He acknowledges that there are some who think biblical theology...

Exodus 16 and the Sabbath

Richard C. Barcellos

Exodus 16 is an important passage in this discussion because it is the first time in the Old Testament the word Sabbath is used (Exod. 16:23) and also due to the specific redemptive-historical context in which this Sabbath occurs (i.e.,...

What is Driving these Proposals?

It appears that both Frame and Oliphint are attempting the same thing. They are trying to account for divine immanence with creatures, given divine transcendence. To do this, they both posit some sort of divine change, that God relates himself to...

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We are all in debt to Dr. Waldron for this careful and thorough refutation of John MacArthur’s quixotic attempt to wed Calvinism with a form of dispensational premillennialism. With charity, this book exposes the...

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Journal of IRBS Theological Seminary, 2018

Dr. James M. Renihan, Editor

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The Journal of IRBS Theological Seminary is published to explain and support the theology of Holy Scripture as it is summarized in the Second London Baptist Confession of...

written by Ronald S. Baines,

taken from Confessing the Impassible God, 135-45,

Copyright © 2015 Richard C. Barcellos. All rights reserved.

Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, ² that...

Confession 4.1

Richard C. Barcellos

In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal power, wisdom, and goodness, to create or make the world, and all things therein, whether visible of invisible, in the space of six days,...

Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2018 will be available in November.

DIVINE SONSHIP IN THE THEOLOGY OF B. B. WARFIELD AND HERMAN BAVINCK AND ITS THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Graham J. Shearer*

Conclusion

This study has examined the trinitarianism of Warfield and...

available from RBAP, November 2018

Articles

THE FIVE C’S OF IRBS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: Presidential Inauguration Address delivered on September 11, 2018

James M. Renihan

AN EXEGETICAL, CONTEXTUAL, AND BIBLICAL EXAMINATION OF “THE ISRAEL OF GOD” IN GALATIANS 6:16...

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Hermeneutical Foundations

The introductory comments above draw attention to the foundational importance of the interpretation and use of Scripture in the formulation and defense of any doctrine, no less than in the context of doctrinal differences....

The doctrine of creation, as with the doctrine of the Trinity, is a distributed doctrine. John Webster’s words capture what is meant by creation and the doctrine of the Trinity as distributed doctrines. He says:

. . . the doctrine of creation is one of the two distributed doctrines...

Three Ways to Retrieve a Theological Method that Will Serve the Church Well

It should be clear by now that hermeneutics and theological method are of utmost importance in our dogmatic reflections and assertions on creation. Three ways we can retrieve a theological method that will be of...

“God minus the world is still God the Holy Trinity,” says Fred Sanders.[1] I would like to add to this the following: “God plus the world is still God the Holy Trinity.” In other words, given creation or not, God is still God the Holy Trinity. Creation does not change...

On Defining Creation 

What is creation? Quite often, when asked that question, everyday Christians would immediately direct attention to what has been made. One might say, “Look at the vast sky above, with its moon and stars, its sun and clouds which give rain from...

William Ames defines creation as follows: “Creation is the efficiency [or working power; see p. 91] of God whereby in the beginning out of nothing he made the world to be altogether good.”[1] He further asserts that “[c]reation refers to the whole world, i.e., whatever...

John Frame says, “My approach bears a superficial resemblance to process theology, which also recognizes two modes of existence in God, transcendent and immanent . . .”[1] Frame assumes something to be true as asserted by process (and open) theists without questioning it.[2] Transc...

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Formulating Christian doctrine, especially as it relates to the doctrine of the Trinity, is not as simple as counting texts which use the same words. Nor is it as simple as rehearsing redemptive history. Counting texts that use the...

Did the authors of the New Testament epistles know they were writing Holy Scripture?

Richard C. Barcellos

full sermon here

I will answer, “Yes, they knew they were writing Holy Scripture” and seek to show you why. Our question for this post is: Did the writers know they...

 This exposition of Exodus 3:14, by Steve Garrick and Ronald S. Baines, is taken from Confessing the Impassible God: The Biblical, Classical, & Confessional Doctrine of Divine Impassibility, 91-97, used with permission.

Exodus 3:14

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I...

John Frame: “two modes of existence in God” 

The first contemporary theologian we will consider is John Frame. Frame says, “My approach . . . recognizes two modes of existence in God . . .”[1] Previous to this statement he says, “The difference between...