Sinclair Ferguson: The Lord Our God, The Lord Is One: The Simplicity of God 

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Who is the one GOD in 1Cor 8?

@@joshualeibrant3443 “ one God, the Father, of whom are all things , and we for Him and one Lord Jesus Christ ( powerful and clear affirmation of the equality of God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ) through whom are all things and through whom we live.

@@joshualeibrant3443 I am born again

@@jessyjonas4988 Equally Divine as an unborn child is equal in humanity or species. But a Father is greater than his Son in authority.

@@jessyjonas4988 And as the husband is the head of the wife, so Christ is the head of the church and GOD is the head of Christ. As Adam is the head of his comforter Eve who proceeded from him, so the Father is the head of His Comforter, The Holy Spirit who proceeds from Him. There is causation of the Son and Spirit by the Father in the Trinity of three Divine persons.

Not at all, He was claiming to be self existent unlike other gods.

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Most professing Christians are Arminian and Dispensationalist, both are rank heresy. The Reformers were pure Christians, holding to Biblical Christianity, using a proper hermeneutic. The authority of the Reformers was and is still Scripture only and all of Scripture. You my friend have no clue as to the truth. No doubt you have been brainwashed and believe false teachings. Try reading and studying the Bible.

What in this presentation is Platonic? What do you know about Dr. Ferguson? He is one of the most outstanding Theologians of the last 100 years.

You have it so backwards. Protestantism stripped the platonism and other greek philosophy from interpretation of scripture. The Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy follow Thomas Aquinas. You couldn't even name any other theologians in the reformed tradition apart form St. Augustine who was much too early to even be considered reformed at all. Tell me how Samuel Rutheford, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Jon Owen are platonists, then we will talk.

@@joeiiiful First of all I was a Reformed Calvinist for over twenty years. So I have a pretty good grasp of the Protestant Reformation. You mentioned Dispensationalists and Arminians. Did you know that Dispensationalism was the fruit of what John Calvin and Martin Luther did in history? The errors of Dispensationalism are directly connected to the Masoretic Text. Which is the basis of the Protestant Canon It was John Calvin and Luther who removed the Deuterocanon from the Orthodox Canon and adopted the Masoretic canon. The Masoretic version of the Septuagint was adopted by unbelieving Talmudic Jews after the time of Christ. The Masoretic Text rejected the Dueterocanon as inspired scripture. Do you know why Talmudic Jews removed the Deuterocanon from the Septuagint? Because the Church Fathers in the early church were using the Deuterocanon to powerfully show that Jesus was the Messiah. Maccabees 1 and 2 in the Deuterocanon gives the historical account of the intertestamental period between the Old and New Testaments. The book of Maccabees establishes the doctrine of Preterism. The Orthodox Church in history held to Preterism because that doctrine is clearly taught in the Deuterocanon. So you can see why unbelieving Talmudic Jews would not like the Deuterocanon in the Septuagint. Because it showed that Jesus was the Messiah. And it taught that the Chuch replaced Israel and was the fulfillment of all the promises made to Abraham. So when John Calvin and Luther assumed the authority to remove the Deuterocanon and adopt the Msseretic canon, they were adopting the canon that Talmudic unbelieving Jews had adopted. Your Protestant Bible is based on the Masoretic canon. So it becomes easy to see how removing the Deuterocanon from the Protestant Bible leads naturally to dispensationalism. If you don't have the correct canon then you don't have the full counsel of God. If you don't have the correct canon then Sola Scriptura doesn't work either. How does someone become so arrogant as to think that they have the authority to reject what had been a finished canon for centuries? Why as a Protestant do you believe that Luther and Calvin were given that authority? Have you made them a Pope in your mind? Furthermore, the Bible came from the Orthodox Church. There were no Protestants during the first thousand years of Church history . The canon of scripture came from the church fathers and church councils over an 800 year period. That finished canon is still printed today and is the Orthodox Study Bible. My point is that the Bible belongs to the Orthodox Church. It does not belong to Protestants. The Bible was not given to the individual. It was given to the Orthodox Church in history. Not only was the Bible given to the Orthodox Church- but the spiritual understanding of the text was also given to the church. That is because the Holy Spirit was with and in the historic Church. So a true understanding of inspiration can only be understood from history. Inspiration means to both have the text and the meaning of the text. Since Reformed theology is nowhere to be found during the first thousand years of church history that means that Luther and Calvin invented a new religion that had never existed in history. So you don't have any notion of what inspiration means at all. Sola Scriptura is a false doctrine. Because it removes the Bible from its historical context. The Protestant Reformation is ahistorical.

@@joeiiiful Actually you would find the Church fathers to be much more profound than Ferguson. You're probably not aware that Western theology is based on the Platonic doctrine of absolute divine simplicity, which is Plato's doctrine of the Monad. The Reformers adopted absolute divine simplicity from Roman Catholic dogma. This issue is at the core of why Eastern Orthodoxy is so different from Catholicism and Protestantism. Because Orthodoxy is the only religion in the world that consistently rejects any platonic notion of God. This issue is quite complex. The best person to listen to on this subject is Jay Dyer. He has multiple videos on absolute divine simplicity from both the Roman Catholic and Protestant perspective. Ferguson will never debate Jay Dyer. The problem is that Protestants don't understand this issue.