by Kevin Bauder | Jan 7, 2017 | Atonement, Bauder's Reading, Princeton Theology, Soteriology, What We're Reading
If it be asked for whom did the Redeemer bear all this, he has given the answer, “I lay down my life for the sheep.” He loved his church and gave himself for it. But his atonement, considered in its intrinsic value and suitableness, is infinite, and sufficient if...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 26, 2016 | Calvinism, Christianity, Evangelicalism, SBC, Soteriology
Richard Land of the Southern Evangelical Seminary is a prime specimen of crusading anti-Calvinism, at least if an article in the Christian Post reports his words correctly. Faced with the charge that some people reject Calvinism because they simply don’t...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 7, 2016 | Anthropology, Baptists, Church Unity, Civility, Ecclesiology, Reports, Soteriology
Some younger fundamentalists have the impression that life in the wider Evangelical world is all peace in the valley, not at all like the quarrels and spats they’ve heard about in fundamentalism. That impression is mistaken. For example, take Paige...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 4, 2016 | Christology, Devotion, Poetry, Soteriology, Theology
God of Love Augustus Toplady God of love, whose truth and grace Reach unbounded as the skies, Hear thy creature’s feeble praise, Let my ev’ning sacrifice Mount as incense to thy throne, On the merits of thy Son. Me thy providence has led Through another...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 13, 2016 | Atonement, Poetry, Soteriology
Charitas Nimia; Or, The Dear Bargain Richard Crashaw Lord, what is man? why should he cost Thee So dear? what had his ruin lost Thee? Lord, what is man, that Thou hast over-bought So much a thing of naught? Love is too kind, I see, and can Make but a simple...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 2, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Hamartiology, Problem Passages, Soteriology
According to Rolland McCune, There are nineteen biblical references to the hardening of Pharaoh, only four of which put Pharaoh himself as the active agent; the rest refer to God. This hardening, while divinely caused was simply divine withholding of the Spirit’s...
