Death, being the wages of sin,

why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?

The righteous shall be delivered from death itself at the last day, and even in death are delivered from the sting and curse of it;[1] so that, although they die, yet it is out of God’s love,[2] to free them perfectly from sin and misery,[3] and to make them capable of further communion with Christ in glory, which they then enter upon.[4]

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Ten Things Canadians Do Well

A little list gleaned by searching for “Canadians are good at” in Google to see what would come up.

1. Hockey. That’s the great thing about the internet: I learn something new every day.
2. Development work. All because of their “listening and learning” skills. Yep, Canadians have mastered their kindergarten curriculum like no other country in the developed world.
3. Spelling. I suppose that’s because Canadians know how to spell words like colour and licence (n.) correctly.
4. Sticking their noses into American affairs. Words of wisdom from Jeff “Go home tourists & foreigners”, who is, undoubtedly, American.
5. Slaughtering helpless baby seals. Also from Jeff “Go home tourists & foreigners”. Lovely man, it seems, with consistent standards to boot.
6. Being American icons, “or at least movers and shakers.” No wonder Jeff wants them to go home.
   
7. SEO. Whatever that is, having the word hork in their vocabulary helps Canadians succeed at it.
8. E-government online services. I’ve used them myself and I’d agree. Canadians are good at everything bureaucratic, perhaps because they’re also good at
   
9. Innovation. Innovation is the Canadian heritage. (Is that statement oxymoronic?)
10. Stuff.  And this list proves it.
    

Theological Term of the Week

analogy of faith (or analogy of scripture)

The principle of Biblical interpretation that presumes that God is the ultimate source of all scripture, so we can view scripture as a unified whole, and thus no passage of Scripture can rightly be interpreted in a way that contradicts the rest of scripture, and clearer passages can be used in interpreting more obscure ones.

• From the London Baptist Confession 1689, chapter 1, section 9:

  The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself; and therefore when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched by other places that speak more clearly.

• From The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, III C:
  

  Inasmuch as all Scripture is the product of a single divine mind, interpretation must stay within the bounds of the analogy of Scripture and eschew hypotheses that would correct one Biblical passage by another, whether in the name of progressive revelation or of the imperfect enlightenment of the inspired writer’s mind.

Learn more:

1. Monergism.com: What does the term “analogy of faith” mean?
2. Theopedia: Analogy of Faith
3. Bob Burridge: The Interpretation of Scripture
4. J. I. Packer: The Interpretation of Scripture
5. Thomas A Howe: The Analogy of Faith

Related terms:

• inerrancy of scripture
• inspiration of scripture
• perspicuity of scripture

Filed under Scripture.

This week’s theological term was suggested by Kim of Hiraeth. Do you have a suggestion for a theological term of the week? Email me your idea and I’ll seriously consider using it, giving you credit for the suggestion and linking back to your blog when I do.