All Articles For A Critique of “Reformational” Views on Revelation

Previous article in this series: June 2012, p. 398. Since these articles have appeared over a number of months, I will summarize what has been said thus far. Those who teach the relatively new “Reformational” theology¹ speak of a “Word of God” not found in the Scriptures. Denying that Scripture fully reveals to us the will of God, they say we must turn to the creation to discover many of the details concerning what God’s will is. Yet when they speak of the “creation” they are refer­ring to more than the animals, plants, and inanimate matter. Man is included in...

Previous article in this series: March 1, 2012, p. 248. Where are we to look if we desire to find the laws of God for human culture and soci­ety? How does God teach us how to run a business, a government, or an educational institution? Those who embrace “Reformational” theology¹ would point us to the creation. Embedded in the creation itself, they say, is the word of God that teaches us how we are to do these things. But what about the Scriptures? The Scriptures, they say, do set forth for us some general information to point us in the...

Previous article in this series: December 1, 2011, p. 112. Some of our young adults attend Neo-Calvinistic colleges (e.g., Calvin College, Dordt College, Trinity Christian College, and Redeemer University), where they are taught what is referred to as theReformational worldview. Although the termReformational sounds like the term Reformed, what is being taught in these institutions amounts to a radical departure from the truth of the Reformed faith. It is my intention to demonstrate this departure, while addressing just one subject area at a time. At present we are considering the difference between Reformed and Reformational views on the subject of divine revelation. To...

Some of our young adults at college are being told that they need to follow the guidance of a source of divine revelation other than the Scriptures. The students are assigned to read books that seek to persuade the reader to believe that God’s will is not sufficiently made known in the Scriptures, and that therefore he must look elsewhere, if he is going to know more specifically what God’s will is. We do, of course, hold to the Belgic Confession, which in the second article says that there are two means by which God makes Himself known to us:...