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Richard Barcellos

4 years

Trinity & Creation explores Scripture and the Reformed confession on the doctrine of creation as they relate to the triune God.

Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account

www.amazon.com

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Dear @HwsEleutheroi , this is a somewhat long tweet thread. Sorry for the length. I noticed you mentioned me on your DL yesterday. Before I address that, I noticed you also mentioned Drs. Carl Trueman and Scott Swain. 1

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We are worse than we realize and God is way better than we will ever know.

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My dear mother passed away Wednesday night. For those who knew her, you know she was a very kind-hearted woman who made others feel accepted. She was an exceptionally hospitable woman who loved to cook, and those who were invited to dinner loved to eat her food. She was unique.

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Richard Barcellos

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Adam disobeyed in a garden of paradise; the Last Adam obeyed in a garden of agony. ~ @lukestamps

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3 years

I create my own sermons but rely heavily on dead guys.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Thomas is not the issue. Getting God right is. Doctrines not dudes.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Back teaching hermeneutics.

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

1. Literal interpretation: The plain, normal, or natural meaning, intent, or sense of words. When I was in seminary, this meant Israel means Israel and church means church. Though this is somewhat of a simplistic account of what I was taught, in essence it is accurate.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

T or F: Precisely because the Nicene Creed and The Chalcedonian Definition faithfully reflect what Scripture teaches, they are authoritative for us as secondary standards.

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Richard Barcellos

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3 years

When guys ask me why I didn’t approach them privately before critiquing their book, I ask them why they didn’t approach me privately before publishing it. ~ a friend of mine (I have some of those, FYI)

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Please rethink the purpose for your show. It could be very helpful to many. I fear it has become a dividing line for the wrong reasons. Finis

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Over 25 years ago, I began approaching sermon prep differently. I started reading older commentaries. Then I started reading in chronological order. Then I started looking up my passage in indices of the works of the great minds of the faith. 1

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

CRT=Carl R. Trueman, in case you were wondering

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

If I were SBC, I’d go to MBTS.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

I put my confessional money where my mouth is. I take it very seriously. I swam the Tiber (away from Rome) almost 40 years ago, and there is nothing in me that wants to go back. I am more committed to what I have confessed since 1990 than I ever have been.

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1 year

Resurrection Lord's Day occurs every first day of the week throughout the year.

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Dear @megbasham , I’ve read some of your recent book. I’m convinced God did not cause it to come into being as He did Holy Scripture. I’m also convinced some of what you claim is right. People, mark these words: some of what Megan claims is right.

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If I could speak to myself 30 years ago, I’d say, “Richard, slow down. You don’t know as much as you think you know. Trust me. I know. Read old, dead guys, like way older and dead guys. Our day has not been good to us. Hold fast to your Confession. It’s a guardrail. Press on!”

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

I do not find the claim that I am swimming around in the Tiber (made on The Dividing Line recently) helpful. I pushed back on that claim first made several months ago by the same man who said it recently. 1 of several

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3 years

A good church is more important than earthly things.

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2 years

Tomorrow is the weekly day of revival.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Dear @HwsEleutheroi , I noticed you mentioned me on your DL today. A friend informed me of it. You claimed I have not provided a response to your claim of reformed biblicism. You are correct, I have not. 1

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5 years

I’m a grandpa. Nina Barcellos.

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Richard Barcellos

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Carl R. Trueman is both an historian and a theologian worth reading and hearing.

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

The entire New Testament is based on Jesus’ view of himself in relation to the Old Testament.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

I hold that what we call the grammatical-historical hermeneutic is good, in so far as it goes, but it is not enough, as far as it normally goes.

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2 years

Attend Lord’s Day worship every week til you die.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Fact: People are bold on Twitter. Fact: It doesn’t take courage to be so.

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Richard Barcellos

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6 years

The OT meant what the NT says it means prior to the writing of the NT.

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

Early Christian exegetes “read across the whole of Scripture as if it were one text. Thus the meaning of a term according to the letter might be found by gathering uses of that term from Old and New Testament texts.” ~ Lewis Ayres

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Richard Barcellos

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5 years

Dad and mom, 86 and 84, married 64 years.

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Richard Barcellos

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3 months

Dr. Waldron is right.

Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary

@CBTSeminary

3 months

Say No To Theonomy | Sam Waldron & Joel Beeke | CovCon'24

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Not many look up to me.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

TMS and IRBS at Of Christ the Mediator

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Richard Barcellos

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Costa Rica pastor’s books.

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

2 years

Foul, I, to the fountain fly; wash me, Savior, or I die!

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Richard Barcellos

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3 years

3 wills=3 natures=3 gods

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Richard Barcellos

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My wife took this on the way home from church yesterday.

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

2 years

But here’s the difference: I don’t broadcast my concerns to my primary audience, my church. You, on the other hand, broadcast your concerns about me on Twitter and your show. Why? Who has appointed you to be the theological watchdog for the church catholic? 9

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Resist the urge 2 join a tradition. It’ll become a pope 2 you. Instead, start your own. It’s the only safe way. You will always agree that yours is right. It’s way humble, too. Self-poping popery. Try it. You’ll be proud of your accomplishments, especially the idiosyncratic ones.

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Richard Barcellos

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6 years

I'm signing a contract with Christian Focus Publications for my Trinity and Creation, hopefully out by Nov. 2019. It is to be published in Mentor's Reformed, Exegetical and Doctrinal Studies series.

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

This is better. Young bucks in their proper place.

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Richard Barcellos

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It’s unnecessary, dangerous, idiosyncratic, and not historically Christian (ie, creeds, confessions, catechisms) to ground gender-based role distinctions in eternal relations of origin. 1/2

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I’m not young. I’ve been here 4 a while. I’m not always encouraged by what X has 2offer. I think it’s not always helpful or good 4 believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. It ends up being a thing we cannot handle. It handles us. It makes us look like them. Here’s my advice: STOP IT!

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3 years

It is better to say that God is his attributes than to say that God has attributes. ~ Sam Renihan

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Jesus is Lord of hermeneutics.

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3 years

Humans make lousy gods. ~ Alice Cooper

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The law tells us what God requires of us and the gospel announces what God has done for us. ~ David VanDrunen

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

The Bible goes from the garden to glory, from one temple to another, from the temporary to the permanent, from good to better, from Eden to New Jerusalem, from creation to new creation via redemption by Christ.

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

1. I don't think I'd invite my church to gather in public on a weekday to sign psalms if I knew they could be arrested for not wearing masks and/or not social distancing, while knowing that some or all would not do one or both.

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Richard Barcellos

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1 year

T or F: Types can be types without the Bible using the word type to indicate that they are types.

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Richard Barcellos

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11 months

So, Taylor Swift promotes ERAS? Hmmm

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9 months

He “emptied himself” not by evacuating Himself of the eternal attributes He possessed but by taking temporal attributes He did not possess. ~ Sinclair Ferguson (i.e., kenosis by taking)

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I’ve known @megbasham longer than most on X. Probably only her parents have known her longer here. That’s it. I just want more followers. Is that how this works?

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Twitter is for fun not serious theological engagement. I have spoken!

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If one confesses 2LCF, one confesses the Christian Sabbath. If one denies the Christian Sabbath, one denies 2LCF.

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As u have your concerns about me, so I have my concerns about u. I am concerned about the purpose of the DL & the direction it has taken. I am concerned about your changing doctrinal convictions on eschatology and the function of the law of God, especially so late in life. 7

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T or F: Christ has two distinct wills, a human will and a divine will.

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2 years

At first I thought it was just silly. Now I think otherwise. To disagree is 1 thing; to make an accusation is another, especially a false accusation against a minister in good standing with his church. I confess the 2LCF not merely as an individual but as a churchman & pastor. 3

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Richard Barcellos

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5 years

The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin, therefore there is no purgatory. ~ Turretin

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Richard Barcellos

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1 year

Many books are two or three times longer than they should be.

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2 years

Whatever is in God, is God. ~ Gill

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Richard Barcellos

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Journal of International Reformed Baptist Seminary 2023, coming soon.

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2 years

I am concerned about your view on divine simplicity. I am concerned about some things you have said in relation to Christology. I am concerned about your hermeneutical and theological method. You have your concerns about me and I you. 8

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

6 years

Use the Oxford comma.

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

4 years

My "Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account" is under contract. Should be available by 2021.

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

5 years

Want clear-headed, historically-aware, tightly-argued help on the Trinity debate of 2016? Read this then thank @glennbutner

The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son

www.amazon.com

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

2 years

Hmmm

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Richard Barcellos

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…no man should be discouraged from coming to Christ, on account of sin; all that do come to him, should come as sinners, for he receives them as such… ~ John Gill

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Big announcement 👇

David W. Bunce

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“True of False” A choose your own adventure book and gift to the world from @richbarcellos . Now we just need a publisher. Haha

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Richard Barcellos

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1 year

Just as Father and Son and Holy Spirit are inseparable, so do they work inseparably. ~ Augustine

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

I’ll be teaching hermeneutics this month for @FoundersMin and New Testament Introduction next month for @CBTSeminary . I’d appreciate prayer.

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

Ministers ought to make Christ crucified the principal subject of their teaching. ~ JC Ryle

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Richard Barcellos

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3 years

Instead of asking for chapter and verse, it’s much better to ask how a given doctrine is formulated from Scripture.

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

2 years

Either persons act according to nature or according to person. If according to nature, the Son of God incarnate, being a two-natured redeemer, acts according to both natures, each doing that which is proper to itself. If according to person, Houston, we have a problem.

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Richard Barcellos

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4 years

Gill is far more orthodox than many Baptists today. Gill can help Baptists jettison their social trinitarianism and return to a Nicene orthodoxy. ~ M. Barrett

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Richard Barcellos

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Paul wrote Hebrews. ~ Peter

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Richard Barcellos

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3 years

Dad n me

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Richard Barcellos

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5 years

Hmmm, what ever happened to knowledge, assent, and trust?

T4G

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"To define saving faith apart from feelings... is futile." – @JohnPiper

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Richard Barcellos

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The New Testament does not create new meanings for old texts; it explicates what the Old Testament meant long ago.

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Richard Barcellos

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3 years

[The divine persons] do not have degrees of being God or degrees of priority over against one another. They are not sundered in will or divided in power. ~ Gregory, On God and Christ

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Richard Barcellos

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3 years

For resources to help understand recent discussions on God/Trinity, I suggest Swain’s recent Crossway book, Butner’s The Son who Learned Obedience, Fred Sanders’s zondervan Trinity book, and Sam Renihan’s Deity & Decree. These will help you to understand the issues at stake.

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Richard Barcellos

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Several things happened. I got out of the 20th-century commentary bubble that, though I did not realize it at the time, impoverished me theologically. I realized the wealth of exegetical work scattered through church history and across denominational lines. 2

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Richard Barcellos

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God is both incomprehensible and knowable. But our knowing is not comprehensive. He is infinite.

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Richard Barcellos

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35 years of marriage today. My wife married down in more than one way.

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Richard Barcellos

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T or F: The Son of God incarnate shed His blood. Ergo, it was God’s blood that was shed.

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Richard Barcellos

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5 years

I often read from people with whom I know I disagree on various issues. I read to learn. And I have a lot to learn.

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Richard Barcellos

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T or F: Christ’s and the apostles’ method of scriptural interpretation can and should be followed by subsequent interpreters.

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Richard Barcellos

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1 year

not looking for a fight just wondering: If Good Friday, why not Ash Wednesday or Lent?

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Richard Barcellos

@richbarcellos

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By the end of book 2, we surely think , “Yes! There will be a Psalm 1 man who is the Psalm 2 King and will rule the world in righteousness.” ~ Christopher Ash, The Psalms, 1:32

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Richard Barcellos

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2 years

Heading to Owensboro next week to teach NTI. Basically guna say there’s no synoptic problem, Matthew wrote first, Paul wrote Hebrews, Jesus commissioned apostles to write NT, interpret the Bible like Jesus and apostles interpreted OT.

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Richard Barcellos

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Biblical scholars who downplay the significance of theology for exegesis only fool themselves if they think they can approach the text without theological predispositions. ~ M. Silva

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Richard Barcellos

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@MattMBarrett Singing Doxology and Gloria Patri weekly helps

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Richard Barcellos

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When I pushed back several months ago, the man who made the accusation blew me off. It is simply not true and it is uncharitable. It was not true several months ago and it is not true today. It was uncharitable several months ago and it is uncharitable today. 2

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Richard Barcellos

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Wondering about how to sort out God/Trinity/Christology? Start with Dolezal, All that is in God, then Swain Intro to Trinity, then Wellum, Intro to person of Christ (both Crossway), then Duby All that is in God, then his latest on classical theism and Christology.

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Richard Barcellos

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Then I realized the same for Christology-that since the 19th century Kenotic theories came out, otherwise good men were tainted with kenotic tendencies. I’ve been scrubbing my mind since then. It’s not been easy, sometimes painful, often humbling, but very much worth the work.

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