Vol 67 Issue 14

Bouquets I am renewing my subscription to the Standard Bearer by international postal money order. It is always with great interest that I receive the SB. In France, we have nothing on the same way of Truth. God bless you. Andre Coste Paris, France …and Brickbats We do not wish to renew our subscription to theStandard Bearer. Your eschatology seems to be increasingly more like the dispensational premillennialist, and this definitely affects your biblical world view and, we believe, hampers the growth of the Kingdom. (Mr. and Mrs.) Charles Parry Matthews, NC

Faith a Condition? In his letter in the March 15, 1991 issue of theStandard Bearer, “Liberated” theologian Dr. J. DeJong responded to my charge that the “Liberated” doctrine of the covenant makes the covenant dependent upon the will and work of the baptized child. This, I contended, is the clear and necessary implication of the teaching that the faith of the child is the condition for the fulfillment of the promise that God is supposed to make to every baptized child. I appealed to the Reformed confession, the Canons of Dordt, which repeatedly deny, in so many words, that faith...

Rev. Slopsema is pastor of Hope Protestant Reformed Church in Walker, Michigan. For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:  And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but, unto him which died for them, and rose again.  II Corinthians 5:14, 15 There were those in the church of Corinth who bitterly opposed Paul, Very wickedly they accused Paul of dealing with the Corinthians out of evil and ulterior motives. They also said that Paul was beside himself—out of...