“In case you don’t know, the Westminster Confession is the basis for the London Baptist Confession. I’m a credobaptist. Orthodox presbyterians sprinkle babies all the time, but we hold doctrine very much in common. The confession is precious to us both.” - Ward on Words
Kevin DeYoung Defends Divine Impassibility
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“In simplest terms, divine impassibility means that God does not suffer…. God cannot be acted upon from without, neither can His inner state change for better or for worse.” - Kevin DeYoung
“Good and Necessary Consequence” (WCF) or “Necessarily Contained in” (2LCF): Is There a Difference?
In Chapter One: “Of the Holy Scripture,” the Second London Confession of Faith (2LCF) is almost identical to the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) and the Savoy Declaration (SD) on which it is based.1 There are only three minor differences worth noting.2 First, the Baptists add a sentence at the beginning of the chapter that is found neither in the WCF nor in the SD: “The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience.”3 Se