Thanks to Trevin Wax, here is a list of Michael Horton’s series of reviews on N.T. Wright’s book on Justification. Introduction Justification and God’s single plan: The Covenant and History Justification and God’s people Justification and God’s Righteousness: Imputation and Future Hope Justification and God’s Righteousness: Covenant and Eschatology Justification, Faith, and Faithfulness: The Works of the Law Justification and the Testimony of Paul Justification and Romans “Works of the Law” – Soteriology and Ecclesiology Conclusion ...

Question: Can you tell me what double predestination is and if it’s biblical? If predestination means God chooses before the foundation of the earth, who will be his (the elect), those who will go to heaven. If this is true, how can it also be true that the rest are not predestined to go to hell? There are only 2 alternatives. If man only goes to hell by the sin in the world, and the fact he chooses not to believe, then does this mean those who are not in the predestination group can still believe and go to heaven in addition to the elect? Answer:  I think we need to come to a definition of...

I’ve been asked quite a lot about and ponder a bit about what are the essentials and non-essentials of Christianity. I’m often reminded of the Latin phrase in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas. Translated into English, this means, “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.” This phrase (often wrongly attributed to Augustine) comes from an otherwise obscure German Lutheran theologian of the early seventeenth century named Rupertus Meldenius. It has served as a place holder for a sort of Evangelical Credo (statement of f...

I avoid the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). For many years TBN has been dominated by faith-healers, full-time fund-raisers, and self-proclaimed prophets spewing heresy. John Macarthur wrote about the false gospel they proclaim and the phony miracles they pretend to do almost two decades ago in Charismatic Chaos (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992. See especially chapter 12). Recently, however, I decided to sample some of the current fare on TBN. But it left me outraged and frustrated—and eager to challenge the misperceptions in the minds of millions of unbelievers who see these false teachers...

Evangelicals have traditionally believed that there are certain doctrines that form the core of the Christian faith. They are called “cardinal doctrines.” They are what we might call the sine qua non—the “without which, not”—of the Christian faith. In other words, there are certain doctrines that when denied, by definition, evidence a person does not have the basic core beliefs that must be present to some degree in the truly regenerate. Included in this credo is the belief that there are certain doctrines that are “non-essential” or ”non-cardinal.” These are those th...