Discalced Baptist

In the late 1970s, a grassroots movement arose among Calvinistic Baptists that has been the source of much debate. This movement eventually became known as New Covenant Theology (NCT). Since its birth, this internal debate among Baptists has had not a little ink spilled regarding the key issues. Those issues consist of: Was there a covenant made with Adam in the Garden of Eden, and if so, what are its theological implications, namely was it a Covenant of Works? Is the moral law summarily found within the Decalogue (10 Commandments)? Are Christians obligated to maintain a Sabbath (a.k.a the Lord’s Day) in the New Covenant? One of the primary opponents has been Richard Barcellos. In the fall of 2017, his much anticipated Getting the Garden Right: Adam’s Work and God’s Rest in Light of Christ was released by Founders Ministry. One could say this is his magnum opus , drawing upon many of the issues and works he has previously produced. Getting the Garden Right has three par...

What are the holy Scriptures? As answered in my previous post  asking this question, I stated that the Old and New Testaments, as found in the Protestant Bible, are the only infallible rule of faith and obedience. But how exactly did we come to obtain these? In this post, I will seek to establish, in brief, the Old Testament canon. The Old Testament did not come down out of the sky on some golden plates as a complete and immediate document, but was written by various authors over the span of almost a thousand years, ranging from Moses to Malachi. Also, to speak outright, I do not believe in the 4 different types of authors of the Pentateuch (JLPD), the multiple authors of Isaiah, or any of the other absurd liberal criticisms of the Old Testament, that are founded more upon heretical presuppositions that the Bible couldn't possibly be the Word of God, nor that the Word has been preserved down through the ages for us. People see what they want to see, and their presupp...