Showing posts with label Michael Bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Bird. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The difference matters--a lot

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I believe that that the sine qua non of evangelicalism is not inerrancy or disputed aspects of soteriology, but rather, how one defines and ...
Monday, November 26, 2012

What flows from what?

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Justification is based on the work of Christ in his redemptive death and sharing in the vindication of his resurrection. Justification is no...
Friday, November 23, 2012

How scriptural is it?

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“...there is no text that explicitly says that Christ’s righteousness is imputed to believers. That does not make imputation entirely redund...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Easy-believism

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Likewise to insist that mere profession of faith irrespective of the character of one’s life and conduct is justifying is to engage in a kin...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Transformation is the goal

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Romans 12–15 are, homiletically speaking, the most under preached passages in Evangelical churches. This is travesty since in these chapters...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Union with Christ means...

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The exhortation to righteousness in Romans 6 is predicated on one crucial premise: the transforming power of the gospel and the new obedienc...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Calvin and works

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"We dream not of a faith which is devoid of good works, nor of a justification which can exist without them: the only difference is, th...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Presuppositions

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I am constantly made aware of my own prejudice of reading Paul and the New Testament via the grid of soteriological inquiry where I often as...
Monday, November 12, 2012

More than forensic

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Yet as soon as we acknowledge that union with Christ is forensic and issues forth in a transformed status such a bifurcation becomes a gross...
Friday, November 09, 2012

Incorporated righteousness

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...the notion of imputation fails to grapple with Paul’s in-Christ language that gravitates more towards the concepts of incorporation, subs...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Short circuit!

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Evidently, becoming God’s righteousness is tied to union with Christ, not imputation. For Paul, being “in Christ” means identifying with Chr...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Whence comes holiness?

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The possibility of holiness in a corrupt and perverse world derives exclusively from union with the one who himself was fully righteous and ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

What is the gospel?

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To equate the gospel as consisting of the doctrine of imputed righteousness makes about as much sense as saying that the gospel is the pretr...
Friday, November 02, 2012

The litmus test

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To use reformation theology as a litmus test for theological accuracy represents a departure from the Reformers themselves and places them u...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

One thing

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The Protestant tendency to view salvation in terms of a series of consecutive ideas (justification, sanctification, glorification) fails to ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

They go together

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Jesus’ death and resurrection should be regarded as being inseparably part of the one redemptive event. The cross without the resurrection i...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Union with Christ

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...union with Christ is union with the justified Messiah and the now Righteous One. Jesus by fact of his resurrection is the locus of right...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

It sure is!

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There can be little doubt that the resurrection vindicates the message, person and death of Christ. The resurrection unambiguously announces...