This review relates to the belief that the Spirit inspired the canon and then led the church to recognize it. This subject, then, is directly related to the work of the Spirit and our understanding of his guidance. In this article, Nicole asks the question of why God did not give us an explicit list […]
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The Consistency of Divine Sovereignty and Human Accountability: Why Humans are Morally Accountable
In the last article, we saw how it can be that God from all eternity ordained “whatsoever comes to pass” and yet is not “the author of sin” (Westminister Confession of Faith, 3.1). Having shown this, the issue that we will focus on in this article is how God’s control over all things does not […]
Review of Robert Thomas’ “Correlation of Revelatory Spiritual Gifts and New Testament Canonicity”
The focus of this article is how the revelatory gifts are related to the identification of the canon. Thomas first seeks to identify exactly what the revelatory gifts are. He argues that there are four: apostle, prophecy, word of knowledge, and word of wisdom. If, as he will seek to show, apostle is not the […]