Series
Perspectives
You Asked: Should I Get ‘Re-Baptized’? (Paedobaptist Answer)
Jared Oliphant explains the paedobaptist view on rebaptism, whether to be baptized again because of a later, more tangible conversion experience.
You Asked: Should I Get ‘Re-Baptized’? (Credobaptist Answer)
If you were baptized before you were a converted believer, then, yes, you need to be baptized, since you have not, yet, been baptized.
Aquinas: How He Might Help Evangelicals
For generations evangelicals have been told to steer clear of Thomas Aquinas because he supposedly was the principal progenitor of the false teaching of salvation by works that permeates Catholicism. Since Luther rightly told us that all of Christian doctrine stands or falls with the proper interpretation of justification, and Aquinas led the Catholic Church to embrace precisely the opposite of true justification, the discerning evangelical should renounce Thomas and all his works. Along the way, it has also been suggested to evangelicals that because Thomas taught works and a theory of sacraments that stressed outward reception without the necessity...
Problems with a New Reading of an Old Verse
When discussing gender issues in the church, it’s crucial to understand the various interpretations of the curse on women from Genesis 3:16. After all, only an accurate assessment of the root issues resulting from the Fall will position us to fully appreciate the gospel’s answer. In what follows I will particularly consider the phrase “her desire will be for her husband” (Gen. 3:16). There are several historic interpretations of this phrase. Some have believed it represents sexual desire. John Calvin claimed this part of the curse was simply subjection, that all of a woman’s desires will be subject to her...
A Sidebar Named Desire
Australia and America aren’t too far apart culturally; both are Western, educated, and English-speaking. Even so, I learned a new word at The Gospel Coalition national women’s conference: “sidebar.” Fortunately, I could work out what it meant. Not only did I hear it used three or four times, from several different speakers, but each time it was accompanied by an explanatory hand movement. And, of course, it helped that I was familiar with its two component words: “side” and “bar.” My experience was nothing special. What we are conscious of doing with unfamiliar words we do less consciously whenever we read or listen to another person....
