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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie Rob's quotation of Fisher and Erskine shows that the Reformed regarded many of the Mosaic judicials as being moral/natural laws. | Yes! Exactly!
Furthermore, Calvin and Turretin claimed that "Natural Law" has the power to change the Mosaic judicials, and even change the penalties imposed by the judicials. This is a far cry from Bahnsen's views on Theonomy.
I like Bahnsen alot, and I even met him shortly before he passed away. His work in Apologetics is second to none. He had a clear view of the Gospel. He is sitting closer to God than I ever hope to be. Hopefully, I will meet him in heaven.
The "bath water" of his theology is this Theonomy stuff. I would rather toss that out and remember him for all of the good he has done for the Church.
Blessings,
-CH | AMEN and DITTO
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In Christ's love and service
Mr. Tim Cunningham, Dip. CS (Regent College)
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC
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"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar of 1500-year-old, 200 proof grace—a bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all these centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your own bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home-free before they started. Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale." – Robert Farrar Capon
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