Drawing doctrine out of the text rather than reading it in.
Book Review · Exegetical Method Interpreting the Pauline Epistles 2nd Edition Thomas R. Schreiner · Baker Academic · 2011 · 184 pp. Schreiner’s Interpreting the Pauline Epistles offers genuine exegetical tools — but its systematic presuppositions quietly reshape the deposit it claims to transmit. Thomas Schreiner is a careful scholar, and this is a useful…
Why Doctrine Must Be Tested Discernment, Apostolic Warning, and the Duty to Examine What Is Taught Doctrine must be tested because not everything taught in the name of Christ comes from Christ. That statement may sound severe, but it is one of the clearest assumptions of the New Testament. Jesus warned about false prophets. The…
Scripture Over System Why the Biblical Text Must Govern Every Theological Framework A theological system can be useful when it serves the biblical text. It can help organize doctrine, clarify categories, expose contradictions, and show how different passages relate to one another. No serious student of Scripture reads the Bible without forming some kind of…
On the day of Pentecost, after Peter finished preaching, the crowd asked a simple, urgent question: “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” (Acts 2:37). Peter answered them, and Luke wrote the answer down. This blog begins with the conviction that the answer he gave still stands, that it can be read in the words…
What is the Apostolic Pattern? When the apostles preached, people responded. And when they responded, their responses, account after account, followed the same recognizable shape. The “apostolic pattern” is simply this: the consistent way the apostles taught people to come to salvation, as recorded in the New Testament. It is not a system imposed on…
How Biblical Words Are Reclassified When Theological Systems Keep the Vocabulary but Change the Meaning Doctrinal distortion does not always begin by openly denying Scripture. Often, it begins more subtly. Biblical words are retained, but their meaning is shifted. The vocabulary remains familiar, but the function changes. The doctrine still sounds biblical because it continues…
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