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Berkhof writes: "The Anabaptists virtually set aside the Word of God as a means of grace, and stressed what they called the internal word, the 'inner light’, and the illumination of the Holy Spirit. To them the external word was but the letter that killeth, while the internal word was spirit and life. External calling meant little or nothing in their scheme." ST 458-59
— Feb 23, 2026 07:33PM
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Noah Lykins
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One of the more puzzling and overlooked features of the Barthian, neoevangelical, and federal visionist denial of the doctrine of the prelapsarian legal covenant is that it tends to deny, or at least downplay, the righteousness of God. It retells the entire story of Scripture by changing the plot. Denying the covenant of works (foedus operum), … tends to make God seem arbitrary.
— Jan 12, 2026 09:06PM
Noah Lykins
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“The modern age made the human will the arbiter of all things. In late modernity, following Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), we have reduced life to a struggle of the will. Modernity has consistently attempted to make God come to heel, as if it were possible, to make his will subservient to ours. This is an ancient impulse. It is the program of hell, of course, repackaged for every age.”
— Jan 05, 2026 02:46PM
