On today’s program I finished my response to James White’s article “A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration.” I discussed Acts 2:38 and the meaning of baptism “for the remission of sins,” as well as the washing away of sins in Acts 22:16. We continued to demonstrate the false dichotomy presented by White regarding the efficacy of the cross and baptismal regeneration, and addressed his closing remarks in the essay. Here is the program Read more
Post by Nathan Rinne On my heart imprint your image, Blessed Jesus, king of grace, That life’s riches, cares, and pleasures Never may your work erase; Let the clear inscription be: Jesus, crucified for me, Is my life, my hope’s foundation, And my glory and salvation! – Johann B. Konig Sometimes there are Christians who wonder whether or not they are really Christians. They are beset by doubt because when they look at their actions, they cry out, a la... Read more
On today’s program, I continued my response to James White’a article “A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration.” We looked at several Biblical texts about baptism and continued to discuss the false dichotomy of salvation by grace or salvation through baptism. Here is the program Here is James White’s original article: A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration. Read more
Post by Nathan Rinne Rod Dreher is saying that the Kim Davis case is a religious liberty loser – and he’s got the stats to back him up. I think he is dead right. That said, is it possible for us to think long-term, seeing it as a Gospel winner? What? Yes I am serious – just like I was about this when the Indiana thing blew up. And if this is not Kim Davis’ view, so what? Let’s help... Read more
On today’s program, I responded to a short article by James White titled “A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration.” I spent some time looking at the false dichotomy he sets up between salvation by the work of Christ and salvation through baptism. We then briefly examined some of the relevant Biblical texts. Here is the program. Read more
Post by Nathan Rinne Recently, I heard a Lutheran brother say that we do our best to interpret Scripture – both prayerfully and thoughtfully – but that we could be wrong on most matters because we could be missing something important. This got me wondering whether or not most conservative Protestants would at the least think that they could be wrong on a few matters. Might they ask, for example: “How can anyone with an ecumenical bone in their body... Read more
On today’s program I responded to a recent post by Tim Challies in which he argued that Protestants should not wear crucifixes. He did this by citing J.I. Packer’s book Knowing God. I demonstrate the flaws in Packer’s argument, and talk about the usefulness of crucifixes. Here is the program Read more
My new book The Great Divide: A Lutheran Evaluation of Reformed Theology has just been released! Currently, it is only available on WipfandStock.com, but we be up on Amazon within the coming days. You can purchase the book here. Since the sixteenth century, the Protestant tradition has been divided. The Reformed and Lutheran reformations, though both committed to the doctrine of the sinners justification by faith alone, split over Zwingli and Luther’s disagreement over the nature of the Lord’s Supper.... Read more
On today’s program, I was joined again by Rev. Lewis Polzin to continue our discussion of Henry Eyster Jacobs’ book A Summary of the Christian Faith. We discussed three chapters about the threefold office of Christ: prophet, priest, and king. Unfortunately, my audio file got messed up, so the sound quality is not great. Here is the program Read more
Just and Sinner has just released two new volumes of the writings of the great American Lutheran theologian Charles Porterfield Krauth. Holy Baptism: Two Writings on the Subject No doctrine differentiates Confessional Lutherans from the broader Protestant world more than the conviction that regeneration comes through baptism. This volume consists of two treatises by Charles Porterfield Krauth on the subject. The fist work is “Infant Baptism and Infant Salvation in the Calvinistic System.” Through an extensive look at Reformed divines,... Read more
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