October 30 - November 1, 2020

Dogma

“Most of the Reformers and the Puritans were postmillennial. Calvin, though, was an amillennial, and Dutch Calvinism, after a postmillennial start, has tended to be amillennial. Fundamentalism of the last one-hundred-fifty years has tended to be postmillennial. In light of such diverse “biblical” positions, resist the temptation to be dogmatic on this issue. Avoid the scandal of division over doctrinal nuance which is not relative to salvation.”

https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/the-millennium-when-is-it/

we are often warned not to be dogmatic

and given allowance to stand in difference

as though the Bible does not, and never did

speak God’s truth to His wayward creature

solely God’s truth, bereft of man’s conceit

that “doctrinal nuance” would excuse error

and “irrelevance” permit opinion's diversity

as if God’s truth did not stand unchanged

we are better warned consider our opinion

hold what we believe before the greater light

for God's word must today, as it forever will

speak God’s truth to His wayward creature