Hermeneutics
Quotable Quotes – John MacArthur on Infant Baptism and an Argument From Silence
“Now it is also true that Scripture, they’ll bring this up, they’ll say this: yes it’s not in the Bible, but it’s also true that Scripture nowhere forbids infant baptism [Ed. For an example of this, see John Calvin, Institutes, 4.16.8]. Now if I can get into a debate and we’re going to debate that [...]
What is ‘Literalism’?
One of the main distinctives of Dispensational theology is a consistently literal approach to Biblical interpretation. Dispensationalists live by the following rule: “When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning, unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in [...]
