Central to the whole of the gospel, the “good news” of Christianity, is the person of Jesus. Apart from Jesus, there would be no Christian religion. At the same time, a person’s view of Jesus will inevitably define the character of the “Christianity” that he propounds. Essentially two basic views of Jesus may be proposed, …

The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:2) It was a tree that damned us. It was a tree that redeemed us. And it will be a tree that heals us in the age to come—time beyond all time. Trees are not the central motif of the Bible. But trees …

“I am not at all surprised at this strange and absonous language; it is a false and dangerous conclusion, yet such as naturally results from, and, by a kind of necessity, follows out of their other errors.” —John Flavel[1] The doctrine of assurance has received copious attention from Reformed theologians.[2] The debates within the Reformed world …

There is no such thing in the New Testament as a believer whose perseverance is so guaranteed that he can afford to ignore the warning notes which are sounded so frequently. (Sinclair Ferguson)[1] The great nineteenth-century Presbyterian theologian William Plumer tells of someone accusing a minister of opposing the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. The minister affirmed that he was in fact …

From Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief In part 7, we will look at ourselves and the historical beginning of the great biblical story of redemption.[1] Genesis 1 teaches that after God brought the world into existence from nothing (chapter 10), he populated the heavens and the earth in six days. On the first day, he made …