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Let me apply Bruce’s logic to the issue of homosexuality.19 What if I were to say, “Galatians 3:28 is Paul’s fundamental statement on what it means to be male and female. Any verse written elsewhere on the matter must be read in light of Galatians 3:28. Therefore, those verses in Paul’s letters that proscribe homosexuality are to be read in light o
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The combination of the confession of the (1) “equal” divinity of (2) three distinct persons who are yet (3) united as “one God” constitutes orthodox trinitarian doctrine as normally understood.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
In the modern world of theology and biblical studies, scholars began believing that they had to establish first the ancient “meaning” of the text and only after that ask what doctrine, theology, or ethics modern Christians should derive from those ancient texts today.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Johannes Agricola
Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
Faith and Theology
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In the modern world of theology and biblical studies, scholars began believing that they had to establish first the ancient “meaning” of the text and only after that ask what doctrine, theology, or ethics modern Christians should derive from those ancient texts today.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
“Having faith” in Christ is not merely believing that he exists or even believing certain propositions about his nature; rather it is more than anything trusting him with one’s life.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
I am merely attempting to explain why and how I continue to find traditional Christian doctrines and confessions “true,” why I’m willing to confess the creeds, even though I am a critical scholar who knows much of the Bible is not “true” when taken as history or science. This is not an apology but an attempt at explanation and illustration.