Christianity did not come into the world to proclaim a new morality and, sweeping away all the supernatural props by which men were wont to support their trembling, guilt-stricken souls, to throw them back on their own strong right arms to conquer a standing before God for themselves. It came to proclaim the real sacrifice [...]
Warfield
There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. . . . This is not true of us only when we believe. It is [...]
Aimless movement in time will produce an ordered world! You might as well suppose that if you stir up a mass of type with a stick long enough, the letters will be found to have arranged themselves in the order in which they stand on the printed pages of Dante’s Inferno. It will never happen [...]
Dr. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was one of the most brilliant theologians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was a staunch supporter of the Reformed Faith and Calvinism, and he wrote extensively on the divine inspiration of the Bible. His wife Annie was nearly killed on their honeymoon and remained an invalid for [...]
It takes supernatural power to be patient. That’s why Paul seems to go over the top in how he prays for our patience: May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy. (Colossians 1:11, ESV) But that glorious might makes its way into our attitudes [...]
Justification by Faith does not mean salvation by believing things instead of by doing right. It means pleading the merits of Christ before the throne of grace instead of our own merits.” —Benjamin Breckinridge WarfieldJustification by Faith, The Christian Irishman, May 1911 Via: Of First Importance
I believe that my one aim in life and death should be to glorify God and enjoy him forever; and that God teaches me how to glorify him in his holy Word, that is, the Bible, which he had given by the infallible inspiration of this Holy Spirit in order that I may certainly know [...]
