A Necessary Consequence: Baptist Confessions and the Trinity
Creeds and confessions can prevent contemporary churches from falling into basic christological errors that the church has already evaluated and spoken clearly about.
Creeds and confessions can prevent contemporary churches from falling into basic christological errors that the church has already evaluated and spoken clearly about.
It’s helpful to think of the Creed like this: a Christian may, and perhaps even should, believe more than what’s in the Creed, but not less.
Pearce died at what seemed to be a very young age, but, to many of those who knew him, he seemed to have condensed a lifetime of holy living and ministry into the decade that he was at Birmingham.
A church can be completely orthodox in its doctrine and still be missing something essential.
In his recent address to the various branches of the American government, our King, Charles III (1948–), spoke of feeling “the weight of history.” Speaking especially about the semiquincentennial—one might also call it by more obscure terms, such as the bisesquicentennial or the sestercentennial—of the founding of the American republic, he was calling to mind all of the momentous aspects of that event in the mid-1770s as well as historical details of the “special relationship” that has evolved since then between the United States and the United Kingdom. He was also reaching back, though, to such seminal documents as the...