Faith Alone

Just found this defense of the doctrine of sola fide by a Scottish Presbyterian Covenanter, from about 400 years ago.  As fresh a controversy as it is today, just go to Catholic Answers and search for sola fide, and you'll see how they try to wiggle around the clear testimony of Scripture.

I thank God that it is by faith alone, because otherwise, I'd be sunk.

The Pilgrim Path: Answering Questions #4- Protoprotestants and Sacra...

Looky what I found!  I think I found me a new label for myself:  Protoprotestant.



The Pilgrim Path: Answering Questions #4- Protoprotestants and Sacra...: Who were the Protoprotestants? Could you explain Sacralism a bit more? Is there a difference between Sacralism and Constantinianism?

Did C. S. Lewis Go to Heaven?

The Trinity Foundation - Did C. S. Lewis Go to Heaven?

I'm very sad about this.  C. S. Lewis was my mentor (through his writings) when I first became a Christian, and some of the things he wrote have been written into my soul.  But I can't deny the truth of what John Robbins said:  C. S. Lewis was no Evangelical.  I feel like a huge trunk full of unpleasant things has dropped on the ground right in front of me.

As for whether he went to Heaven or not, that's a different matter, and I think he did.

It's the chance of a lifetime...

While listening to Ron for the Roses, by Dan Fogelberg (yes, I'm a sap, and proud of it!), I realized that the modern and postmodern person worships Cush, or Chaos, or Chance.  This worship works its way into Physics, where the fundamental tenet of Quantum Mechanics is the inherent randomness of all things, and all the certainty you can hope for is statistical.  It also works its way into philosophy, in the definition of Free Will.  At bottom is a random number generator, because people abhor determinism.  But the only alternative to determinism is randomness.

I don't want to have at the heart of 'me' some random process.  I reject Cush.

A Common Mistake

I hear Roman Catholics often make the charge that they're the one true church that has withstood the test of time. They discredit Protestantism as a relative novelty. Well, the Evangelical faith has been around since the beginning. Witness the Donatists, Novatians, Vigilantius, Berengarius, the Paulicians, the Culdees (who saved Western Civilization, by the way), the Vaudois (aka the Waldensians), the Arnoldists, the Petrobusians, the Henricians, the Albigensians, the Patarines, the Cathari, the bogomils, the Lollards, the Hussites.  And don't forget the Church of the East.

The Faith once delivered to the saints has been around since day 1, and is still alive and well, because the Holy Spirit animates the true believers and leads us into all truth.