A Baptist study on the Westminster Larger Catechism, Question 40, held at the Old Paths Christian Church on 6 January 2020. Topics include Christology and the Trinity; ancient creeds and councils; Nestorianism and other ancient heresies; Greek philosophy, essentialism, realism, metaphysics and existence; Roman Catholic teaching; the problem of the one and the many; and more!

Q. 40. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person? 

A. It was requisite that the Mediator, who was to reconcile God and man, should himself be both God and man, and this in one person, that the proper works of each nature might be accepted of God for us,t and relied on by us, as the works of the whole person.u

(t) Matt 1:21,23; Matt 3:17; Heb 9:14
(u) 1 Pet 2:6

Resources

+https://www.chapellibrary.org/book/lbcw/the-london-baptist-confession-of-faith-of-1689-with-preface-baptist-catechism-and-appendix-on-baptism

+https://reformedbrotherhood.com/trb-113-nestorianism/

“Human nature, therefore, although endowed with intelligence and will, may be, and in fact is, in the person of Christ impersonal. That it is so is the plain doctrine of Scripture, for the Son of God, a divine person, assumed a perfect human nature, and, nevertheless, remains one person.” (Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, https://www.ccel.org/ccel/hodge/theology2.html)

+Bruce Shelley, Church History in Plain Language, Fourth Edition Zondervan Academic, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GCG55EM/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdb_t1_x_V8cfEbQNFNPY7

+J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines: Revised Edition, https://www.amazon.com/dp/006064334X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YBnNEbZ1WRQ8W

Roger Olson, The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/372001517

+The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology: A Comparison Between Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist and Paedobaptist Federalism [Revised Edition] by Pascal Denault, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23827777

+Gordon H. Clark, “Atheism,” http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=50

+Gordon H. Clark, The Trinity, http://www.trinitylectures.org/trinity-the-p-78.html; and The Incarnation, http://www.trinitylectures.org/incarnation-the-p-92.html

Join Tim Shaughnessy and Tim Kauffman on this week’s episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as they discuss the Roman Catholic practice of mixing water with wine in the Mass during the Lords Supper. Roman Catholic apologist will appeal to the early church fathers to show that there was an apostolic rite of adding water to wine during the Lord's supper and they will use this to argue that the Roman Catholic church is the true church. Furthermore, the official dogma of the Roman Catholic church holds that if you reject this practice then you are anathema.Join us as Tim Kauffman refutes their position and shows why this practice of mixing water with wine was not an apostolic rite but rather a secular practice of making wine. The practice of mixing water with wine is a novelty of the late 4th century. Tim Kauffman does another fantastic job of explaining why the Roman Catholic system is built on a house of cards.

As always we want to thank Tim Kauffman and recommend his blog whitehorseblog.com to our listeners.

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