tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post2017753893080742605..comments2024-03-26T00:19:08.753-07:00Comments on The World's Ruined: What is truth? Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-3484296375670403512013-03-18T10:43:57.541-07:002013-03-18T10:43:57.541-07:00I actually think we have the Roman Catholics to th...I actually think we have the Roman Catholics to thank for the fine political mess of traditional marriage. Specifically, they made marriage into a "Sacrament" such that it appeared the government was contributing to the administration of it. If only it had been left as God's blessing for all men and women, even non-Christians, then it would now be treated routinely.Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511526445868840330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-49759821093406245582013-03-15T15:21:58.544-07:002013-03-15T15:21:58.544-07:00Charlie, you have to go farther back than the 20th...Charlie, you have to go farther back than the 20th century. The roots of the subjective as the key to truth are found in the early gnostics, the mystics throughout church history, the anabaptists of the 16th century, and the type American Christianity that evolved out of the revivalism of the first and second Great Awakenings.Jack Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-42356407430799096452013-03-15T14:43:54.293-07:002013-03-15T14:43:54.293-07:00WCF Ch. 1, Of the Holy Scriptures:
6. The wh...WCF Ch. 1, Of the Holy Scriptures:<br /><br />6. <b>The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture:</b> unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of men. (2 Tim. 3:15–17, Gal. 1:8–9, 2 Thess. 2:2) Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word: (John 6:45, 1 Cor 2:9–12) and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the Church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature, and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed. (1 Cor. 11:13–14, 1 Cor. 14:26, 40)<br /><br />The Westminster Confession of Faith (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1996).Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-25721188463091579472013-03-15T14:40:36.182-07:002013-03-15T14:40:36.182-07:00You have the Pentecostals, the neo-orthodox, and t...You have the Pentecostals, the neo-orthodox, and the Van Tilians to thank for that. If Scripture is not univocally the revealed propositional truth claims of God and merely "analogical", then it logically follows that truth is two-fold. God's truth is unknowable because Scripture is not literally what God says on the homosexuality issue. Following the logic of Van Til, human experience of Scripture rather than propositional truth is really the bottom line. If such is the case, why complain when Evangelicals reject doctrinal propositions recorded in Scripture?Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.com