The Castle Church Door

In another thread, Historical Number Cruncher wrote:"In 397 AD, the Roman Cathoics and the Eastern Orthodox held the Council of Carthage to separate the Wheat from the Chaff: to select the Books of the Bible; to mark Commentaries, Histories, and Training Manuals as useful non-Biblical Books; and to discard the books being insinuated into the Scripture by the Gnostics. What have the Reformers done? John Calvin's Doctrine of ...

1. Traditional discussions of canonical criteria focus on ecclesiastical or rabbinical criteria. The high-church argument is that we need an authoritative church to impose unity on the books of the Bible. The implication is that Scripture is, in itself, an arbitrary anthology. Deny the authority of the church, and that snaps the string holding these books together.But that extrinsic solution reflects the self-reinforcing attitude of the high churchman. ...

Some Orthodox epologists have been piling on Josh Brisby over at his blog:http://joshbrisby.blogspot.com/2008/04/debate-weastern-orthodox-part-9-reader.htmlKeep in mind that their questions were originally addressed to Josh, not to me, and they sometimes quote him. Josh and I might phrase things differently or answer things differently, so I don’t presume to speak for him, but only for myself. “If Reformed soteriology is plain in the scripture, then it has always been plain ...

Jay Dyer has issued his limp closing statement in the debate with Josh Brisby:http://www.nicenetruth.com/home/2008/04/debate-pt-8-jay.html“I chose to focus on the question of the canon and sola scriptura because it is an area I’ve done quite a bit of reading on.”Has he now? Then why does he always trot out the same two or three writers? A quote from Bruce. A quote from McDonald. A quote from Johnson. “It was ...