The adverse criticism levelled at Affirmation 2010 in a good number of Christian magazines and digital publications has moved The Bible League Trust to over-react with an eight point, five-paged rebuttal claiming that all such criticisms are unfounded, ill-conceived, fallacious, confused and indicate a departure from sound teaching. In their condemnation of honest criticism, they sarcastically denigrate the intelligence, …
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Sir.
Why is the EC promoting the para-church creed, Affirmation 2010, which seeks to ‘win the widest possible agreement’ in ‘various church bodies and constituencies’? This aim is doomed from the start as the twenty-four subscribers to date obviously represent different theologies and denominations and are dodging and dumbing down doctrinal issues. Their views of the Trinity, redemption, atonement, the gospel, law, justification, …
… Catholics Together, the Chicago Declaration, the Cambridge Declaration, Manhattan Declaration and Affirmation 2010. They are usually promoted by those who have deserted the Reformed faith, allowing dubious personages to play a dominant part. In this way, they hide their own apostasy and seek to be seen as orthodox and force unwitting signatories to follow them. A modern trend as in Manhattan is even to appeal to ‘believers and unbelievers alike’ to sign. Besides, such creeds are outdated …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… Chandler and that of the New Divinity School and, in effect, re-introduce pure Grotianism with its affirmation of the moral government theory of the Atonement and its denial of vicarious and penal substitution. This is clearly seen in Fuller’s teaching on moral and positive laws, the nature and fitness of things, divine revelation, man’s natural abilities as a medium for spiritual truth and experience, and a metaphorical interpretation of Bible doctrine. Fuller outdid Grotius, in …
