In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) may seem like a miracle of modern medicine, but when we analyze it in light of Biblical truth, we will see that it is not without serious ethical and theological problems. In this article we discuss six problems with IVF.… Read More A Christian Case Against In Vitro Fertilization
This article seeks to challenge the prevalent Evangelical assumption that tattoos are morally indifferent and that there is nothing alarming about the current fashionable trend of tattooing. We will examine three reasons Christians should not tattoo themselves, and then we will respond to justifications for tattooing the body. But first we need to consider what the Bible teaches about the image of God and the sanctity of the human body.… Read More Honoring God with Our Bodies: A Case Against Tattoos
We do not believe, for instance, that in the resurrection there will be any difference between those who are buried in the graves of the earth and those whose bodies were destroyed by fire, or devoured by wild beasts, or drowned in the sea, or blown to bits by the explosion of bombs. But this does not mean that there is not a great difference between burial and cremation. Cremation was not the practice of the saints of God in either the Old Testament or the New. Rather it was of heathen origin.… Read More Burial Or Cremation?
John Flavel Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man pp. 81-120 Revelation 6.9-11. “And when he had opened the Fifth Seal, I saw under the Altar the Souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the Testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud Voice, saying, How… Read More The Immortality of the Soul Proven from Scripture & Reason
W.G.T. Shedd Dogmatic Theology Vol. II, Christology, ch. 5, pp. 330-349. The doctrine of Christ’s person is not complete without considering the subject of his impeccability. That he was sinless is generally acknowledged. But the holiness of the God-man is more than sinlessness. The last Adam differs from the first Adam by reason of his… Read More Christ’s Impeccability
William Bucanus (-1603) Institutions of Christian Religion pp. 99-103 Of the Image of God in Man. What is an Image? It is the portraiture or representation of some thing, and that both in the soul of man—to wit, in the mind or faculty of knowledge, and it is called of the Philosophers an Idea, namely,… Read More What is the Image of God in Man?
Richard Baxter Practical Works vol. 2, pp. 469-472 Directions against Sinful Dreams. Dreams are neither good nor sinful simply in themselves, because they are not rational and voluntary, nor in our power: but they are often made sinful by some other voluntary act: they may be sinful by participation and consequently. And the acts that… Read More Directions Against Sinful Dreams
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 7. Of the last Subject of Inhesion, or Seat of Original Sin, the Body of a Man. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord… Read More Pollution of the Body by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 6, Sections 1-20. “And God saw that every imagination of the thoughts of mans heart was only evil, and that continually.” (Genesis 6:5). SECT. I. This Text explained and vindicated against D. J. Taylor, Grotius, the Papists and Socinians. We have at large discovered the universal… Read More The Sinfulness of the Imagination
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 5, Sections 9-19. “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:2). SECT. IX. The Pollution of the Affections in respect of the Conflict between the natural Conscience and Them. Again, the great and notorious pollution of the affections doth appear… Read More Pollution of the Affections by Original Sin
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