Theological Term of the Week

mediator
One who intervenes in order to make peace between alienated parties; “[t]he role that Jesus played in coming between God and us, enabling us to come into the presence of God.“1

• From scripture:

  For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 1:5 ESV)

• From The London Baptist Confession 1689, Chapter 8:

  9. This office of mediator between God and man is proper only to Christ, who is the prophet, priest, and king of the church of God; and may not be either in whole, or any part thereof, transferred from him to any other. (1 Tim 2:5).

  10. This number and order of offices is necessary; for in respect of our ignorance, we stand in need of his prophetical office; and in respect of our alienation from God, and imperfection of the best of our services, we need his priestly office to reconcile us and present us acceptable unto God; and in respect to our averseness and utter inability to return to God, and for our rescue and security from our spiritual adversaries, we need his kingly office to convince, subdue, draw, uphold, deliver, and preserve us to his heavenly kingdom. (Joh 1:18; Col 1:21; Gal 5:17; Joh 16:8; Psa 110:3; Luk 1:74, 75)

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Round the Sphere

From some ladies you should be reading.

Members of An Exotic Species
right in your own home, and you might want to consider sharing them with others.

Right in the middle of the foyer area, the kids spotted a fish tank with exotic-looking luminous yellow tropical fish and ran to look. Their eyes were wide with excitement as they gazed at the tank describing what they could see in excited voices.

Then behind me, I heard another excited voice. One of the elderly ladies this time.

(168 hours)

Of the Promised Land
Leslie has a question. Can you help her out?

Well, that initial question has budded since Friday; I now have a hydra of questions creating more questions. I’ve learned that there is controversy surrounding this issue, so it’s possible that I won’t reach a definitive answer.

(alabamenagerie)

Not Really the Gospel, Is It?
Examining the speaker’s message.

She is a published author and skilled communicator. She has endured with resilience and grace what many would describe as an unfair twist of fate. Her testimony in the Lord’s faithfulness to deliver her not from but through her tragedy is both inspiring and challenging.

However, I listened to her speak with a mixture of unease and dread gnawing at my stomach.

(Lisa Writes)

Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 11

What do Christians mean when they say the Bible is inerrant? The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy tells us what leading inerrantist mean by inerrancy. I’ll be posting a section of this statement each week until I’ve posted the whole thing.

You can read previously posted sections of this statement in by clicking here. After a preface and a short statement, the Chicago Statement contains a section called Articles of Affirmation and Denial.

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Article IX.

We affirm that inspiration, though not conferring omniscience, guaranteed true and trustworthy utterance on all matters of which the Biblical authors were moved to speak and write.

We deny that the finitude or fallenness of these writers, by necessity or otherwise, introduced distortion or falsehood into God’s Word.