Commentaries & Study Guides

JM said:

Westminster Confession
- commentaries here (Hodge) and here (Shaw)
- study guides here

London Baptist Confession of Faith, 1689:
- commentaries here and here
- study guides here and here

Please add!

Yours in the Lord,

jm

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Hi; you mean commentaries that don't simply encourage the reading of the Word of God authoritatively, comparing Scripture with Scripture, but rather reading Scripture through the creeds, constructions of the church?

faroukfarouk said:

Hi; you mean commentaries that don't simply encourage the reading of the Word of God authoritatively, comparing Scripture with Scripture, but rather reading Scripture through the creeds, constructions of the church?

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Since confessions are a useful tool in discerning truth from error (weeding out the heretics who use Scripture to their advantage) it is important to understand the Scriptural basis from which churches have formulated their doctrines and practices.
Therefore, it helps us to exercise our responsibilities such as found in 2 Timothy 1:13; Jude 1:3; Philippians 1:27.
Besides, a good confession of faith is helpful when we need to explain to others what we believe about various doctrines of the church. Since we all confess some doctrine or another, it's important we clearly understand and can articulate what that confession is.

royal priest said:

Since confessions are a useful tool in discerning truth from error (weeding out the heretics who use Scripture to their advantage) it is important to understand the Scriptural basis from which churches have formulated their doctrines and practices.
Therefore, it helps us to exercise our responsibilities such as found in 2 Timothy 1:13; Jude 3; Philippians 1:27.
Besides, a good confession of faith is helpful when we need to explain to others what we believe about various doctrines of the church. Since we all confess some doctrine or another, it's important we clearly understand and can articulate what that confession is.

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I can see the usefulness of statements of faith.

Some ppl go a stage further and formally promise to read and understand Scripture only through the lens of a creed, which seems to me a bit different.

I can certainly use a commentary to profit whether or not I necessarily agree with what it says some of the time.

JM said:

Westminster Confession
- commentaries here (Hodge) and here (Shaw)
- study guides here

London Baptist Confession of Faith, 1689:
- commentaries here and here
- study guides here and here

Please add!

Yours in the Lord,

jm

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Thank you so very much.... especially for the Westminster Confession study guide.
I am somewhat new to Reformed theology, but I have read this creed and find it amazing!

Thank you again
Lord bless!

Berkhof as a very reliable introduction to the Reformed faith available as pdf or epub:

Systematic Theology, by Louis Berkhof | Free online Bible classes | BiblicalTraining.org

Grumman Tomcat said:

Thank you for posting the London Baptist Confession.



Confessions are essentially Biblical doctrines wrapped up in a neat package. They are intended to keep the Christian and his church on track. Churches without them tend to get infected with bizarre doctrines and ideas. I used to be involved the MJ movement-a movement that does not have a creed. Most of of it is mainstream Nicene Christian but you have Ebionites and even non-trinitarians that deny the divine nature of Christ in the mix.

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Historically the term confession can refer to something more than a statement (or summary) of faith; sometimes with a confession or creed there is a formal commitment to read the Word of God only through the confession or creed; this is what I struggle with, while gladly acknowledging the usefulness sometimes of summaries or statements.

All of these for...FREE.

The Expositor's Bible edited by Sir William Robertson Nicoll

Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical by John Peter Lange

John Trapp's Complete Commentary

Pulpit Commentary

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Great Texts of the Bible by James Hastings

An Interpretation of the English Bible by B.H. Carroll

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

The Sermon Bible by William Robertson Nicoll

Calvin's Commentaries

The Pulpit Commentary by Joseph S. Exell, Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown’s Commentary on Whole Bible

Biblical Illustrator by Joseph Exell

Poor Man's Commentary by Robert Hawker

And many more HERE

Scrolling down the page HERE are additional FREE commentaries such as:

The Biblical Illustrator (same as above only from the "official" program site)
Jamieson, Faussett, Brown (ditto)

English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole, 1685

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Treasury of David by C.H. Spurgeon

Altogether probably thousands of dollars worth of smelly old paper rotting tiny text faded smeared printed books.

I am using this currently for Thursday night Men's study in Galatians. This layout of the series is awesome I for sure will be getting more of these.

Zondervans Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_...ns+Exegetical+Commentary+on+the+New+Testament.

In Him,

Bill