1. Some thoughts on “All that is in God”: Camden Bucey, Lane Tipton, and James Dolezal discussing some finer, more technical aspects of theology proper
2. Debate with others is necessary when important issues are at stake. Challenging views which stray from important Reformed-confessional and historical and classical Christian boundaries on the doctrine of God is sometimes necessary.
3. This is the case in our day since some who subscribe a Reformation era confession are predicating some sort of change in God by virtue of creation and relation to creatures. This is a move in a dangerous, even toxic, direction.
4. It has consequences which end up compromising many long-held and clearly-argued elements of the doctrine of God. And for those subscribing the WCF or its related confessions, it wreaks havoc upon the system of doctrine contained therein.
5. Predicating change in God by virtue of creation and relation (or in any sense) is, among the contemporary Reformed, very idiosyncratic and contradicts the confession. When novelties arise they must be questioned and scrutinized.
6. Surely this ought to be the case with reference to the doctrine of God, the principium essendi of Reformed Orthodoxy. We must not cater to the age in which we live. If that were done by those who went before us, we would be in big trouble.
7. Though we may have to stand contrary to some who have been our teachers on various matters, stand we must.
8. If what some are advocating in our day as in step with confessional Reformed thought is not, in fact, in step with what is clearly and emphatically stated in and meant by the confessional documents, what else can confessional people do but stand against such teaching?
9. It is the only honest thing to do. It is fully realized that some will balk at such a statement when it comes to the issues mentioned above. Some think the finer, more technical elements of the doctrine of God are tertiary issues.
10. Those subscribing the confession ought to beg to differ. Theology, as John Webster says, involves God and all things in relation to God. Get God wrong and one will get wrong various aspects of all things in relation to God.
11. The stakes are very high, indeed. Having said that, I highly recommend a careful listen to the issues discussed in this episode of Christ the Center:
