Jehovah's Witnesses
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
The Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) of the Watchtower Tract and Bible Society claim that the Christian Church has colluded in removing the name "Jehovah" from the Bible, and that they alone confess the true name of God. They say that over 7,000 times the name Jehovah (Yahweh, the tetragrammaton, YHWH) has been changed in the King James Version (KJV) to LORD. Since their New World Translation (NWT) retains the original name Jehovah, they, so the claim goes, must be the true followers...
Read MoreLet This Mind Be In You Which Was Also In Christ Jesus
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
How would you illustrate humility? Paul illustrates it in the most profound and moving way in Philippians 2. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 2:5). The apostle often does this—he uses profound theology to teach practical Christian living. To do this, he proves (1) that Jesus is God; and (2) that Jesus humbled Himself. Two expressions in verse 6 prove that Jesus is God. (1) “Who being in the form of God”: The form...
Read MoreIntroducing another new Blog writer!
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
We are pleased to announce that we have another new blog writer, Rev. Martyn McGeown. He has agreed to assist Rev. Clayton Spronk and Rev. Joshua Engelsma as a fellow writer for the RFPA blog. Rev. McGeown is missionary-pastor of the Covenant Protestant Reformed Church in Northern Ireland stationed in Limerick, Republic of Ireland. We look forward to adding Rev. McGeown as one of our writers!
Read MoreHyper-Calvinist! (2)
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
by: Rev. Martyn McGeown (published in the British Reformed Journal) *** Read the first article in this series here. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! In our last editorial, we began to examine Phillip R. Johnson’s definition of hyper-Calvinism in his influential on-line article, “A Primer on Hyper- Calvinism.” We distinguished between a serious call (the Latin term serio in Canons III/IV:8) and a gospel “offer.” We noted that it is the Arminian—and not the Calvinist—who defines serious (serio) as “a sincere and completely unhypocritical...
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