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Jul 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
What’s wrong with biblicism?🧵

Dr. Renihan argues: "[Biblicism] is based upon a form of personal independence, or even self-confidence. Doesn’t it ever cross anyone’s mind that they aren’t necessarily the wisest theologian, the best exegete?" sermonaudio.com/sermons/221514…
2/ Graham Shearer identifies its corrosive scepticism:

"... biblicism is an acid in which no aspect of Christian orthodoxy, whether ethical or doctrinal, can long survive. This is because at the heart of biblicism is scepticism.” gjshearer.com/2020/01/30/the…
3/ Craig Carter:

“Biblicism is exegesis within the philosophical framework of modernity, which functions as a replacement for the dogmatic framework expressed in the ecumenical creeds of the early church and the confessions of the Reformation.” credomag.com/article/how-th…
4/ Matthew Barrett notes that it refuses to read the Bible theologically in “Will the Son Rise on a Fourth Horizon? The Heresy of Contemporaneity within Evangelical Biblicism.” cf.sbts.edu/equip/uploads/…

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“Van Til may affirm traditional creedal formulas, but he also promotes erroneous formulations that conflict with both the ecumenical creeds and Reformed confessions when he writes… Image
2/ “e.g., ‘We speak of God as a person; yet we speak also of three persons in the Godhead.... God is a one-conscious being, and yet he is also a tri-conscious being’ [Introduction to Systematic Theology, 220].
3/ “Van Til does not employ the historic trinitarian terminology but introduces modern (even social) concepts such as consciousness to define the persons of the godhead, a move with precedent in nineteenth-century theology and twentieth-century theistic personalism…
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Francis Turretin on Mary as Theotokos, “Mother of God.”🧵

“Mary is rightly called the Mother of God (theotokos) in the concrete and specifically because she brought forth him who is also God, but not in the abstract and reduplicatively as God. Image
2/ “Although this is not expressly stated in the Scriptures, still it is sufficiently intimated when she is called the mother of the Lord (Lk. 1:43) and the mother of Immanuel. If the blessed virgin brought nothing to the person of the Logos (Logou) absolutely considered,
3/ “still she can be said to have brought something to the person of the incarnate Logos (Logou) economically considered, inasmuch as she gave the human nature which he took into the unity of person.
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Cyril of Jerusalem on the witnesses to the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:5-8🧵

“‘He appeared to Cephas; and after that to the twelve’ [v. 5]. So if you disbelieve one witness, you have twelve witnesses. Image
2/ “‘Then he was seen by more than five hundred people at once’ [v. 6]—if they disbelieve the twelve, then listen to the five hundred. ‘After that he was seen by James’ [v. 7], his own brother and the first overseer of this [Jerusalem] diocese.
3/ “Since so noteworthy a bishop was privileged to see the risen Christ, along with the other disciples, do not disbelieve. But you may say that his brother was a biased witness.
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We must not say the Son left heaven in the incarnation.🧵

Christ's natures are "without conversion, composition, or confusion" (2LCF 8.2). So when the Son assumed humanity, it didn't change the divine nature. If it had, it wouldn't have been an incarnation (nor would He be God).
2/ "... even while he was in the bosom of the virgin that bore him, as God he filled the whole of creation and was fellow ruler with him who begot him. For the divine is without quantity and dimension and cannot be subject to circumscription."

-Cyril of Alexandria
3/ "... the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, he willed to be borne in the virgin’s womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet he continuously filled the world even as he had done from the beginning!”

- John Calvin
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“God is also above our praises and blessings. What does a fountain gain if people drink its water and commend it rather than despise it? Image
“What would God gain if He were to make millions of worlds to magnify Him? What would God lose if there were no world at all?

‘Who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?’ (Rom. 11:35). /2
“God has given to everyone all that they possess, but no one has ever given anything to Him. When we give Him our love, awe, and trust, we actually give Him nothing. /3
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What is "biblicism"? 🧵

D.B. Riker may define it best:

“...biblicism is the rejection of everything not explicitly stated in the Bible, and the concomitant dismissal of all non-biblical witnesses (Fathers, Creeds, Medieval Doctors, councils, etc.)." amazon.com/Catholic-Refor…
2/ In this helpful lecture, Renihan builds on Riker:

"[Biblicism] is based upon a form of personal independence, or even self-confidence. Doesn’t it ever cross anyone’s mind that they aren’t necessarily the wisest theologian, the best exegete?" sermonaudio.com/sermons/221514…
3/ Though brief, this post by @GJShearer is insightful.

"... biblicism is an acid in which no aspect of Christian orthodoxy, whether ethical or doctrinal, can long survive. This is because at the heart of biblicism is scepticism.”
gjshearer.com/2020/01/30/the…
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