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Ordinance or sacrament?

The word "ordinance" and it's origination: ".....by historical notation, the Presbyterian Puritans, for example, used the term "ordinance" as much as they used the term "sacrament," especially in their personal writings. They were used interchangeably. In the WSC the...

Was the WCF Plagiarized?

  From first glance, it seems as if the LBC of 1689 and the Savoy Declaration are plagiarized copied of the WCF of 1647. Answer: From the introduction to the London Baptist Confession: "Courteous Reader: It is now many years since divers of us (with other sober...

Violence in light of sin

Matt 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Taking heaven by force is not compromising in the face of pressure. Consider the saints of Foxe's day! The true believer is enslaved...

A different slant on Hebrews 10:25

n my studying of Hebrews 10:25, I am coming away from this study wondering why the writer of Hebrews uses the Greek term *'ἐπισυναγωγή' when speaking of the church. This term is used only twice in the NT, once here and also in 2 Thes 2:1: 2:1 Now we beseech you,...

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