tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post5932788212093675553..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: Hold Your Banner HighPhil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-39702146859159463822010-04-12T13:18:30.174-07:002010-04-12T13:18:30.174-07:00"We hear on all sides great outcries against ..."We hear on all sides great outcries against creeds. Are these clamours justifiable? It seems to me that when properly analysed most of the protests are not against creeds, but against truth...."<br /><br />Regardless of the denomination, the old statements of faith (let's say, anything written up until about 100 years ago) are beutifully crafted extracts of biblical theology.<br /><br />And yet so many churches and denominations today regard their heritage as not worth the paper it's printed on, free to be abandoned, ignored, reinterpreted, or rewritten. And why? It's not as if the truth from ages old has suddenly changed in the last century....Stefan Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530690016594029847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-21982709085219931782010-04-11T19:53:12.890-07:002010-04-11T19:53:12.890-07:00Amen and amen!Amen and amen!candyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088593538648596769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-7078730709654007282010-04-11T19:25:15.725-07:002010-04-11T19:25:15.725-07:00Thanks. I've fixed it now. Good eye.Thanks. I've fixed it now. Good eye.Phil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-60754391105414695722010-04-11T19:04:21.100-07:002010-04-11T19:04:21.100-07:00tech note... there's a misplaced ampersand bef...tech note... there's a misplaced ampersand before <i>["in this sign you will conquer"]</i> which ought to be moved after the closing bracket. it's killing the dash.qizhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00384887776892817322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-90215221307283456912010-04-11T18:46:47.900-07:002010-04-11T18:46:47.900-07:00"There is a Christianity distinctive and dist..."There is a Christianity distinctive and distinguished from Ritualism, Rationalism, and Legalism, and let us make it known that we believe in it."<br /><br />These three plus Antinomianism pretty well describe the modern Evangelical church. <br /><br />In the "Can't we all just get along," sophisticated, 21st Century American church independence is prised over submission to the Lord of Truth.<br /><br />Anything "spiritual" whether it's "The Shack," Emergent, Looney Tunes, or whatever is equally accepted. If you resist these, then you become the "intolerant," politically incorrect bigot.<br /><br />We too easily declare someone "saved" even if they are raving heretics. We require not even the most basic of doctrine in order not to offend.<br /><br />This is contrary to the early church and some Global South Churches which require some kind of training before baptism.<br /><br />Long gone is the spiritual heritage of the London Baptist Confession, the Westminster Confession, Hidelberg Confession, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com