Vol 20 Issue 01

The question as to the author of the epistle to the Hebrews has engaged the minds of many learned theologians, from the very earliest church fathers, until the present day. There are three leading opinions entertained in regard to this question. The overwhelming majority ascribe the authorship of this epistle to the apostle Paul. There are some who ascribe it to other authors than the apostle Patti, either Barnabas or Luke. Others ascribe it to the apostle Paul in concert or conjunction with another author, and this other author is held to be according to some Apollos, and according to...

In the life of the sincere child of God singing is a necessary engagement. The true child of God must sing. Not only because God demands such of him but also because it is the desire of his heart to do so. For the sincere Christian realizes that he has been saved by sovereign grace, and in the measure that he does, his heart must need’s express itself in singing of unfathomable wisdom and boundless love. He cannot help but sing. However also in his singing it is his calling and desire to do all to the glory of God....

At this present moment the most outstanding event of recent date still is the complete capitulation of Italy to the Allies. It is still too early to see this complete surrender in the right perspective. In the first place we have no way of telling how strong the German army is in Italy. From recent developments it has appeared that Germany has sufficient forces there to cause great delay in the occupation not only of the entire country but even of the southern and central parts of Italy. Further we know not definitely whether Germany chooses to defend any more...

John Calvin in his own characteristic manner speaks of this doctrine as “the error entertained by some unskillful persons who ignorantly imagine that in the interval between death and the judgment the soul sleeps,” an “absurd dogma of babblers,” and a “madness which should be severely repressed.” It concerns itself with the intermediate state, which is, as Calvin puts it, the interval between death and judgment, between our departure from this life and the consummation of all things in the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jericho has been captured. Its walls fell by faith. The victory was solely God’s and His gracious gift to His people in response to their faith—a faith of which their compassing the walls of the city was the living expression. Thus the victory was not of them, of anything they had done, for they had done nothing at all except march, shout, and blow the trumpets. Certainly the falling of the walls could not be attributed to their marching. The victory was the Lord’s; andthough in the warfare that was to follow, the people would take an active part—they must...

The Catechism emphasizes that the doctrine of the. holy trinity is known only from revelation. The Church and the individual believer speak of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as three persons in the divine essence, only “because God hath so revealed himself, in his word, that these three distinct persons are the one only true and eternal God.” This does not mean that the doctrine of the trinity as such, as a dogma, can be found in the Bible. The Scriptures do not speak of the trinity, of three persons in one essence, nor explain the relation of the three persons...

*The Christian Laborer in the Industrial Struggle, p. 29. Let us consider the first point of the principles adopted by the last synod of the Christian Reformed Churches on the Unions. We quote it here again: “Church membership and membership in a so-called natural labor union (CIO and AFL) are compatible as long as such union gives no constitutional warrant to sin, nor shows in its regular activities that it champions sin.” Now we may pass in silence, or at least just mention in passing, some of the minor objections that may be raised against this “principle.” The Synod here...

Permit me to continue my quotation from “The Gospel,” to demonstrate how little ground Van Til has for his indictment that I really make God the subject of man’s obedience or disobedience: “What then is the fallacy of Heyns’ reasoning? When, on our part, we deny the doctrine of the two wills, we deny the theory that God can will two exact opposites in the same sense and with respect to the same objects. This is what Heyns teaches. He claims: 1. God wills that all men shall be saved. 2. God does not will that all men shall be...