… Keep true to God’s Word. Reject modern evangelical teaching that the Scriptures have no mediatory purpose in regeneration and that they are, Barthian-like, a lottery of random words until one is drawn in a particular situation, by a particular person and only then used by the Spirit to become an agent of truth. God’s Word is always pure truth. It is the breath of the Spirit who never stops breathing. There are no blanks drawn in ministering the Word. Every word has a task to …
Posts Tagged Mediatory
Where Olyott Got It Wrong
Mar 10
… IF it is wrong to identify the Spirit with His Word, and wrong to believe that the Word has mediatory functions, at least in regeneration, what is right according to Olyott’s new gospel? Olyott tells us under his next sub-heading.
The Truth
Olyott maintains that the Holy Spirit does not work THROUGH the Word. ‘Through’ points to mediation and here there is none. However, he continues, the Word and the Spirit may work together, though not in a mediate way. This …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… Mark 10:45). Paul, in I Timothy 2:5-6 explains that this is the essential part of Christ’s mediatory work of reconciliation ‘For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for sin, to be testified in due time.’ The last phrase ‘in due time’ is not to be taken in its modern alternative meaning of ‘in time to come’ but in its basic meaning of ‘in the time that was due’ or as Paul puts it in Galatians 4:4, ‘But …
