Category Archives: Fork in the Road

The Fork in the Road: A Different Gospel, Part 3 (Gal 5 part 1)

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Jay F Guin

Chapter 5 We skip to chapter 5 for the sake of space. 1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. V. 1 recalls that Paul had said … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: A Different Gospel, Part 2 (Gal 3)

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Jay F Guin

Galatians 3 In a truly astonishing passage, Paul explains that our salvation is found not in the Law of Moses (no surprise) but in the covenant with Abraham (big surprise) — (Gal 3:2 ESV) Let me ask you only this: … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: A Different Gospel, Part 1A (Further on the “Law”)

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Jay F Guin

In Part 1, I stated that although Paul is discussing the Law of Moses in Galatians, his logic tells us that the conclusions he reaches apply to all efforts to be saved by works rather than by faith. I’ll explain … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: A Different Gospel, Part 1 (Gal 1 -2)

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Jay F Guin

In a recent post regarding the “progressive agenda,” I wrote, Of course, my view of the gospel differs from the gospel as taught by conservatives in important ways. I’m persuaded that if they’ll understand the gospel as I teach it, … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: Scruples, Part 2

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Jay F Guin

In some settings, the scruples of the weaker brothers effectively prevent doing God’s missions if the brother with stronger faith does not submit to the weaker brother. Hence, Paul had Timothy circumcised to be able to teach unconverted Jews who … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: Scruples, Part 1

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Jay F Guin

[A couple of commenters have asked about scruples — how Paul’s teachings in Rom 14 teach us to deal with those with weaker or stronger faith. This and the next post are from 2 1/2 years ago.] A friend in … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: The Progressive Agenda

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Jay F Guin

I get emails — You get emails. You may have already done this, so just link me if so. Succinctly stated, what is the Progressive agenda?  I don’t mean agenda in a negative way.  What do you hope to accomplish?

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The Fork in the Road: Galatians 4 and Romans 14

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Jay F Guin

Mario asked, How does Galatians 4:8-10 figured into this? 8 However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. 9 But now that you have come to know … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: Things That Perish With Using

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Jay F Guin

Robert Prater asked, Would you refute the view advocated by Ferguson and Hicks that the early church’s nonuse of IM is that instruments were a divinely prescribed part of temple worship that was superseded by the “higher worship instituted by … Continue reading →

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The Fork in the Road: Eph 5:19 and the Psalms

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Jay F Guin

[This is expanded from my Sunday comment. I thought this was important enough and novel enough to make into a post. This is the last post on instrumental music for a while.] Bruce Morton, in his book Deceiving Winds – … Continue reading →

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