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Westminster around the Web

Still on Chapter 1 of the Westminster Confession of Faith where we are dealing with Scriptual Authority, Scriptural Sufficiency and the Doctrine of the Word of God. Is this doctrine settled, old or stuffy? Well, let's tour the Web and see who's blogging about these issues.

No doubt you've heard of the Jesus Seminar. A group of scholars who got together to prove (they said they were objective) that Jesus didn't really say anything that is reliable. That's old news.

Now we have The Davinci Code, by Dan Brown. A fiction novel that claims it is fiction, but at the same time claims it is factual when speaking of the historical Jesus, the gospels, and history of the New Testament. Dan Brown uses non-cannonical sources to prove his points, but dismisses the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Mark D. Roberts, pastor of Irvine Presbyterian, and a Ph.D in New Testament from Harvard has blogged about both the Jesus Seminar and The Davinci Code. Now he is blogging a wonderful series called, Are the New Testament Gospels Reliable? If you've been faced with questions - this is a good place for the laymen to start.

Another blog I'd like to recommend is Reformation 21, this is the blog of The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. They have insightful posts that are Reformed, current and often touch on Westminster issues. Currently Rick Phillips is taking a tour through B. B. Warfield's writings on divine revelation. If you haven't gotten to Warfield yet, these posts will give you a deeper understanding on how God has revealed himself to us. The post I really like is Modes of Revelation.

That's it for today's tour of Westminster on the Web.

Posted by Christine at October 14, 2005 12:40 AM