Recent content by Bruce Woodford

Bob, you make a very false and erroneous assumption about Is.8:20!

I entirely agree that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are God. But they are NOT "TRINITY OF PERSONS"!

Not so! Every sound doctrine is stated in the very words of scripture. And no false doctrine can be stated in words of scripture! (i.e. "purgatory", "infant baptism", "substitutionary atonement", "pre-tribulation rapture" etc etc!

That is the whole problem! "Trinity" is NOT in the Bible! Nor is the false idea that there are "three persons" in the Godhead! Scripture does speak of the person of Christ, but never teaches that the Father or the Holy Spirit are "persons"! God is a SPIRIT. If we allow that any doctrine not...

You are absolutely right about that phrase being in the Bible! But it is there to prove that the doctrine is false! Read the whole verse (James 2:24)!

Just because justification is by faith and is NOT by works of the law does NOT make it by faith ALONE! Faith must have an object and scripture tells us we are justified by Christ. But Christ also had to shed his blood so scripture also teaches us that we are justified by His blood. Scripture...

Bob, testing by scripture alone involves asking 3 questions: (1) Can this doctrine be stated in the pure words of the Lord? (Ps.12:6) (2) Can this doctrine be stated in pure words of the Lord apart from any additional words? (Prov.30:5,6) (3) Can this doctrine be stated in words which the Holy...

Testing by scripture only involves asking 3 questions: (1) Can this doctrine be stated in pure words of the Lord? (Ps.12:6) (2) Can this doctrine be stated in pure words of the Lord apart from any additional words? (Prov.30:5,6) (3) Can this doctrine be stated in words which the Holy Spirit...

Just by faith, You wrote that Justification by faith alone is a scriptural doctrine but it really isn't! The word "alone" is added and one additional word makes a false doctrine because it denies other Bible truths which tell us we are also justified by Christ, by His blood, by grace and by works!

But the point is, we need to be able to objectively distinguish between sound doctrines and false doctrines. Scripture gives us three tests: (1) Can my doctrine be stated in pure words of the Lord? Ps.12:6 (2) Can it be stated apart from additional words? (Prov.30:5,6) and (3) Can it be stated...

Exactly! James 2:24 marks out the doctrine of "justification by faith alone" as a false doctrine! Justification by faith is a scriptural doctrine, but add just one word and you make it a false doctrine which denies many other truths of scripture! Faith must have an object so scripture tells us...

You recognised purgatory and infant baptism immediately as false doctrines because they are not in the Bible. That is good for starters, but "justification by faith alone" is not in the Bible either, nor is "substitutionary atonement" nor is a "pre-tribulation rapture"!

What you have observed may very well be well and good. But when faced with doctrines such as purgatory, infant baptism, the virgin birth of Immanuel, justification by faith, justification by faith alone, substitutionary atonement etc.... how do you distinguish between those doctrines which are...

The Lord Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath, He was and is God.... you and I are not, so we have no authority to deduce "infant baptism", "Purgatory" a "pre-tribulation rapture" or even "justification by faith alone" when scripture does not teach any one of them!