by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 3.3 Chapter 2 Review – The Church Building: Inheriting the Edifice Complex In the second chapter, the authors take aim at the church building. From the perspective of the regulative principle, the particular...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 3.2 Chapter 1 Review – Have We Really Been Doing It by the Book? The first chapter of the book begins with a satirical sketch, in which a bored, hypocritical churchgoer listens to a sermon, where his pastor...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 3. Chapter-by-Chapter Response 3.1 Preface and Introduction Review Pagan Christianity begins with a preface from the main author, Frank Viola. Viola states his major premises from the start. First, he believes...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 2.4 The distinction between description and prescription The final principle I want to clarify is the distinction we have to make between those New Testament passages that merely describe the activities of the...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 2.3 The regulative principle of worship The regulative principle of worship is, stated simply, the principle that God alone has the right to regulate our worship, by his word.[1] In worship, we (1) must do...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 2.2 Finding a balanced understanding of church tradition and church history How then do we understand the tradition of the church, as it has developed after the Apostles? Is any development after the New Testament...
