Antithesis Magazine

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ANTITHESIS

A Review of Reformed/Presbyterian Thought and Practice

Antithesis was a bi-monthly publication by Covenant Community Church of Orange County (O.P.C.), and is copyright (c) by Covenant Community Church 1990-91. It is published by permission for Reformed.org.

ISSN 1049-8737

Genesis 3:15, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.”

Genesis 17:5, “My covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; For I will make you the father of a multitude of nations…and kings shall come forth from you. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-5, “Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”

Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

Luke 1:68-73, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David His servant — As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from old — Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us; To show mercy toward our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant — the oath which He swore to Abraham our father.”

Matthew 28:18-19, “And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.”

2 Corinthians 10:5, “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”

1 Corinthians 1:20, “Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Augustine – Though there are very many nations all over the earth,…there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities,…one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God….To the City of Man belong the enemies of God,…so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

John Calvin – Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain….The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God — expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

Westminster Larger Catechism – Christ is exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God, in that as God-man, he is advanced to the highest favour with God the Father, with all fulness of joy, glory and power over all things in heaven and earth; and doth gather and defend his church, and subdue their enemies; furnisheth his ministers and people with gifts and graces, and maketh intercession for them.

Cornelius Van Til – There can be no appeasement between those who presuppose in all their thought the sovereign God and those who presuppose in all their thought the would-be sovereign man…. Rather than wedding Christianity to the philosophies of Aristotle or Kant, we must openly challenge the apostate philosophic constructions of men by which they seek to suppress the truth about God, themselves, and world,…so that we may present Christ without compromise to men who are dead in trespasses and sins, that they might have life and that they might worship and serve the Creator more than the creature.

J. Gresham Machen – The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.