(In the last article on this subject, which appeared some time ago, we discussed the fact that Janssen defended his views of Scripture and the miracles by an appeal to common grace. Our readers will recall that Prof. Janssen, professor of Old Testament in Calvin Seminary in the years before the common grace controversy which […]
(In the last article, we discussed one area in which Janssen connected his views of Scripture with common grace. This was in the area of general and special revelation. Because the general revelation of common grace enabled the heathen with whom Israel had contact to discover many elements of truth, Israel borrowed extensively from heathen […]
(In the last article, we began a discussion of the way in which Dr. Janssen connected his views on common grace with many different aspects of the controversy in which he found himself involved. His arguments were many times very strange and impossible to follow. But when he specifically appealed to common grace in support […]
(In the last issue of Beacon Lights, we began a discussion of how common grace became an essential part of Dr. Janssen’s defense of his views of Scripture. We discussed how important this whole issue of common grace was in the controversy, and we began to give some history of how common grace even appeared […]
In our last article, we called attention to the fact that the same views which Prof. Ralph Janssen taught in the Seminary and for which he was deposed are now views which are taught openly and freely throughout the church of which Dr. Janssen was a member. In inquiring how it was possible that the […]
In earlier articles, we discussed how Prof. Ralph Janssen denied the truth of the infallible inspiration of Scripture. We discovered what the effects of this denial were in his views of the Old Testament: how he maintained that the creation account of Genesis 1 & 2 were imported into the thinking of the Israelites from […]
(In the last article, we showed how Dr. Ralph Janssen’s Views of Scripture led him to a denial of the miracles of Scripture. There were one or two other matters which his views of inspiration affected. To them we turn in this article.) In order to understand the issue that is involved in this question, […]
(In the last articles which we wrote on this subject, we were discussing Dr. Ralph Janssen’s views of Scripture. We discussed his views of Scripture’s inspiration and how those views of inspiration affected other ideas he had about how the Scriptures came into existence. In this article, we are going to discuss how Janssen’s views […]
(In the article of last month, we talked about how Dr. Ralph Janssen denied the doctrine of infallible inspiration. By denying this doctrine, he made room for the theory of evolution as an explanation of how the world came into being. In this article we are going to look at some other ways in which […]
(In the last article, we began our discussion of the views of Dr. Ralph Janssen. We noticed that Dr. Janssen basically denied the infallible inspiration of Scripture. In this article we are going to see exactly how he did this.) Dr. Janssen said that the student of the Bible must come to Scripture just as […]