*Editors Note: This is the second installment of blogs related to Textual Criticism authored by Dr. Timothy Decker. Click on the following links to read the related blogs on this subject: Does our confession require a printed text or indicate the need for a text...
Were Adam and Eve Saved? | Ben Carlson
Adam and Eve heard from the mouth of God the first promise of the gospel in Genesis 3:15. But did they believe in it? Did they receive and rest their souls in the promise that the Redeemer would be sent into the world to destroy the devil and reverse the curse and bring in everlasting blessedness?
Write My Words | Tom J. Nettles
*Editor's Note: This is the ninth installment in a 9-part series on the book of Job by Dr. Tom J. Nettles. As more installments are released, each part of the series will be linked to each post. To read part 1, click here:...
If God Be For Us | Tom J. Nettles
*Editor's Note: This is the eighth installment in a 9-part series on the book of Job by Dr. Tom J. Nettles. As more installments are released, each part of the series will be linked to each post. To read part 1, click here:...
If God Be Against Us | Tom J. Nettles
*Editor's Note: This is the seventh installment in a 9-part series on the book of Job by Dr. Tom J. Nettles. As more installments are released, each part of the series will be linked to each post. To read part 1, click here:...
If God Will Just Listen to Me | Tom J. Nettles
Job’s friends, in Job’s opinion, provide nothing that can help him in his struggle to find the purpose of God and see the face of God in this situation. They are worthless.
It is Very Difficult to Discuss a Matter with God | Tom J. Nettles
No skeptic has ever entered such wrenching questions about God as did Job. No investigation of the problem of pain has ever been approached from a more existentially relevant position.
It is Your Fault | Tom J. Nettles
“…during this life, we do not see sin and judgment in a quid pro quo arrangement. Job’s experience, and the inspired narrative of it, constitutes a large portion of the special revelation as to how we are to regard suffering among the people of God.”
Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Natural Theology’s Use | John Sweat
Turretin lists five general uses or ends of natural theology.
The name of the Lord is to be Blessed | Tom J. Nettles
Do we see and feel God as our greatest good even if knowledge of him means the loss of all earthly things; do we revel in God because of the status and things that we associate with a life of devotion?