Edwards on the gravity of depravity

In an age that collectively denies original sin,* I find I often need my imagination provoked to recall its perniciousness. I do not want merely to know that sin is bad, I want my affections to feel its weight. Jonathan Edwards provides a good response to those who would say that mankind is good, [...]

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Semi-weekly pithiness for March 12, 2008*

If we love not God because he is what he is, but only because he is profitable to us, in truth we love him not at all.
- Jonathan Edwards (Original Sin, Chapter 1, Section V [Yale ed., 144]) for March 12, 2008
*I may need to (re-)change the name of the theme of these posts to [...]

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Three reasons why Peter is the rock in Matthew 16:18

Jesus’ words to the Apostle Peter in the Gospel according to Matthew are very familiar:
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.
Many Protestants run away from understanding Peter as the “rock” in Matthew 16:18, largely because another prominent Christian church has used this interpretation as an [...]

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Is the doctrine of original sin important?

Jonathan Edwards thought the doctrine of original sin was important, and so he said in his preface to his book on the doctrine.
I look on the doctrine as of great importance; which everybody will doubtless own it is, if it be true. For, if the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature [...]

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Jonathan Edwards read John Gill

I am happy to count myself among those who still reap great fruit from the ministry of the Baptist pastor and theologian John Gill. And I was happy to find that in this respect I have a kindred spirit, at least to some degree, in Jonathan Edwards.
From Freedom of the Will, Part 4, Section 6 [...]

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