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So Cal RB Pastors’ Conf 2022, Of Christ the Mediator: Jim Renihan, Sam Renihan, Chad Vegas, James Dolezal, Rich Barcellos

So Cal RB Pastors’ Conf, Nov 1-2, 2021, La Mirada: tacos, books, Argentine bbq, books, Of God’s Covenant, Sam Renihan keynote speaker, Rich Barcellos guest speaker. More info coming soon.

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When someone starts to tinker with the doctrine of Scripture, many Christians instinctively feel that something nefarious is being done. But when someone starts to tinker with the doctrine of God, many simply assume that very clever people are engaged in improving the tradition. ~ Carl R. Trueman http://www.rbap.net//god-without-passions-by-samuel-renih/

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How the uses of the law . . . sweetly comply with . . . the grace of the Gospel (2LCF 19.7), Richard C. Barcellos http://www.rbap.net/how-the-uses-of-the-law-sweetly-comply/

coming soon from RBAP: A Catechism for Children http://www.rbap.net/coming-soon-from-rbap-a-catechism-for-/

from Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account, p. 2 Richard C. Barcellos This book attempts to present a method of accounting for the confessional formulation of the doctrine of creation by our triune God. Formulating Christian doctrine, especially as it relates to the doctrine of the Trinity, is not as simple as counting texts which use the same words; nor is it as simple as rehearsing redemptive history. Counting texts that use the same or synonymous... words is deficient in establishing Christian doctrine. This is because biblical texts ought to be weighed, not merely counted, to determine their importance. This will be illustrated in various parts of the book. Weighing texts is especially important when considering creation in relation to the Creator. If only one text of Holy Scripture informs us about a crucial element of the divine act of creation, that text is of great importance. One of the reasons this is the case is because creation involves everything in relation to God. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1725280345

Of the various things I learned while co-editing and co-writing Confessing the Impassible God, one is that theology is done best when its entire encyclopedia is utilized. Of the various things I learned while co-editing and co-writing Confessing the Impassible God, one is that iron sharpens iron refers to the living and the dead. Of the various things I learned while co-editing and co-writing Confessing the Impassible God, one is that the theological formulations of our Confe...Continue reading

From Trinity and Creation chapter 2, Trinity and Creation: Hermeneutics and Method, p. 26: And finally, if we are going to retrieve a theological method that serves the church well, we need help. Many in our day were not trained to do theology in a historically Christian manner. (On a personal note, in the past, I often found myself counting texts using a concordance and not weighing their importance in light of their meaning given the entirety of Scripture. I had no conce...pt of distributed doctrines, for example, and their importance for interpretation. This severely hampered my ability to account properly for the ad extra operations of the Trinity. At one point in my own experience as a student of Scripture, in terms of theological method, I had to start over.) Because of deficient training, many today need help. For such help, the book by Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain, Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation is recommended as a primer. This book will help you sort through the importance of, and give you a method for, the constructing and accounting of Christian doctrine in a Christian manner. Two more recent books that will help tremendously are Craig A. Carter’s Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis and Gavin Ortlund’s Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future. https://www.amazon.com//172/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4

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adapted from Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account: WHAT IS A CONFESSION OF FAITH? The Second London Confession of Faith, 1677/89 (2LCF) is a confession of faith. It contains, in summary form, what subscribers to it believe the totality of the Bible teaches on given subjects. The doctrinal formulations were crafted as a result of contemplation upon the entirety of Holy Scripture. The confession is not merely a reference point from which one subsequently... or further develops doctrinal conclusions; it is the doctrinal conclusions on the subjects which it addresses. Because the confession summarizes what the Bible teaches on given subjects, this means all of Holy Scripture is considered in the formulation of its chapters. You can see this, for example, by noticing the Scripture references at 4.1. These texts are cited: John 1:23; Hebrews 1:2; Job 26:13; Romans 1:20; Colossians 1:16; and Genesis 1:31. These references display an unrestricted, canonical consultation while formulating 4.1. Citing Scripture references indicates to readers that the doctrinal formulation was made, in part, by the fruits of previous exegetical work in the biblical text. In other words, this is not some form of simplistic proof-texting. Indeed, it is far from it. When the confession cites scriptural texts, it assumes exegetical labor and its fruit. It also assumes long-standing methods of biblical interpretation and doctrinal formulation. Stefan Lindblad’s words are especially important to ponder and with which we ought to agree: The texts cited here by the 2LCF are regarded as the primary seat of the doctrine, the primary (not exclusive) place in Scripture where the doctrine was either explicitly taught or ‘by just consequence deduced’. This indicates to us that the texts cited are not the only scriptural bases from which the confessional formulations were derived. It also alerts us to the fact that the formulations are not mere recitations of the words of Scripture. Doctrines taught in Scripture must be formulated into words other than Scripture in order to explicate their meanings for us. The use of Scripture in the formulation of the confession’s doctrinal statements also indicates a distinct working hermeneutic (confessed in 1.9). This method of interpretation is an illustration of the analogy of faith. In other words, when formulating Christian doctrine, we must allow the totality of Scripture to speak prior to our formulations. This is the method exemplified in the 2LCF. A confession of faith is a written and public document which contains doctrinal formulations on various scriptural topics. The 2LCF is a confession of faith. See more

Theology on the Go interviews RBAP author J. Ryan Davidson @jryandavidson https://www.placefortruth.org/blog/green-pastures-podcast

Hmmm Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account https://wipfandstock.com/trinity-and-creation.html

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A Typical Objection to the Covenant of Works https://www.rbap.net/a-typical-objection-to-the-covenant-o/