We should not give much weight to men who cannot rule or refuse to rule their households well (1 Tim. 3:4-5; Titus 1:6), especially if they are in leadership. This is a warning and a focus to prioritize the family for all of us -- God cares more for how you lead and love your wife and raise your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord than He does about your political labors, financial status, how gifted you might be at teaching biblical doctrine, how based you were on racial and national matters, how many spats you got into or battles won online, and other lesser endeavors. You cannot have a people and a heritage, natural or Spiritual, if you lose your own children due to sinful neglect, incompetence, impatience, prioritizing other things that should not be as highly valued or invested in, etc. if you reform your country but your wife is a bitter, contentious women and your children resent you and reject the Lord Jesus Christ, what have you gained? Nothing but misery, excep...
Dr. Keith Mathison (of Ligonier Ministries/Reformation Bible College, etc.) wrote "The Shape of Sola Scriptura" back in 2001. In it, he exposes the errors not only of Rome and Orthodoxy, but also of Evangelicalism and modern Reformed with its false doctrine of solo (not sola) scriptura. He shows how this SOLO scriptura is not the position of the actual Reformers (who held to SOLA Scriptura and can trace that doctrine back to the early church fathers and of course to Scripture itself) of the 15th and 16th centuries and is really a post-Enlightenment relativism and man-made tradition. On the one hand, this seems obvious to me and those I talk to in the Reformed world. But then again, I was blessed to go to Reformation Bible College, I took the time to listen to R.C. Sproul's teaching series, I have done some reading on this, and I largely avoided the errors and deviations of Evangelical and even many Reformed seminaries today. Mathison himself notes that this was the situ...