“Unless we assess infallibility in the light of the data with which Scripture provides us, we shall be liable to judge infallibility by criteria to which Scripture does not conform. this is one of the most effective ways of undermining biblical infallibility” (John Murray, Collected Works, Vol. 1, 14).

“If our thinking about regeneration begins and ends with the individual, we will drastically misunderstand the nature of God’s work in the world. If it never gets down to the individual level, the confusion is just as bad” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 106).

“There is one clause in this formulation sometimes misunderstood and mis-applied. It is the clause ‘the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture’. This does not refer to the internal testimony of ‘the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts’. With this the [Westminster] Confession had dealt in section v, which is concerned with the agency by which ‘our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority’, of Scripture are induced. But in section x the Confession is dealing with the Scripture as canon, and uses the expression ‘the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture’ to remind us that Scripture is not a dead word but the living and abiding speech of the Holy Spirit” (John Murray, Collected Works, Vol. 1, 16-17).

“Of course, the Scripture is not God and to give Scripture the place of God would be idolatry. Of course, Christ is Christianity and saving relation to him as Lord and Saviour is the only hope of lost men. But the absolute uniqueness of Scripture is not impaired. Scripture is unique, not because it takes the place of God, nor the place of Chrsit, but because of its relationship to God, to Christ, and to the Holy Spirit” (John Murray, Collected Works, Vol. 1, 12).

“Our father Adam plunged us into a condition of death. Jesus entered into that Adamic death, and was born again from that death. The apostle Paul quotes the second Psalm (“Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee”) and applies it to the resurrection (Acts 13:33). Because Jesus was born again from the dead, everything else can be born again from the dead. . . . Without the resurrection, without the transformation of the heavens and earth, without the reconstitution of the new Israel, there is no such thing as individual regeneration. We do not say that corporate regeneration makes individual regeneration superfluous, but rather we say that corporate and cosmic regeneration makes individual regeneration both possible and mandatory. The world has been reconciled to God through Christ. Therefore, Paul presses the point. Be therefore reconciled” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 104-105).

“On the question of warrant for the proposition that Scripture is infallible, what are we to say? The only ground is the witness of Scripture to itself, to its own origin, character, and authority” (John Murray, Collected Works, Vol. 1, 10).

“The regeneration that happens in conversion is a fundamental change, but not an exhaustive one” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 96).

“This vantage of eternity (and only this) gives us genuine perspective of our lives. We may affirm other doctrinal truths alongside this one, but we may never mute or diminish the absolute necessity of the new birth for every son or daughter of Adam. If we lose that battle, we lose the war” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 88).

R.R. Reno in First Things (March, 2015), again.

Recently, the Mount Holyoke College women’s-studies department reported that it will not longer stage an annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, having felt its feminism outflanked by the exclusion of “women” who lack the body part so prominently put forward by the play. The transgendered will feel oppressed! All withers before the condemning and all-destroying moralism of progressives social justice.

“But the antithesis is not a theological form of A and not A. It is not the contrast between right and wrong. it is not between righteousness and unrighteousness. The antithesis divides people–the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. We are talking about billions of personal names–mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, sons, and daughters” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 87).