Possibly, but people would probably say the same things, and have the same attitude towards David if he did what he did in recent history. I can see it now "have you ever looked up David? He murdered a guy because he got his wife pregnant, he ate the show-bread, he joined the enemies of Israel and killed his own people...." Yet God still called him a man after his own heart. Not saying such things arent worth reflection, but when I do see such things, I always have to remember that nobody is perfect.
True but all this was going on after his "jailhouse" conversion. I'm not speaking to his conversion, I don't know that, but having known a lot of crooks and swindler's in my day his behavior post-conversion seemed to me to just be taking his prior skills and applying them to working the Christian revival system for money.
My bad. I was writing an explanation and apology when you posted this. What was it that Reformed folk liked so much about his theology, Darby? The book looks fascinating.
Old School or New School journals?
Volume XXIII.—NO. 1, January 1872. | PAGE |
I. | Theology of the Plymouth Brethren, by the Rev. R.L. Dabney, D.D., Union Theological Seminary, Va. |
Brother, that isn't a review of any of Darby's works. It's an analysis of the theology of the sect which he started. Dabney's stated purpose is to expose their errors. Did you read the article?
In substance, this says that the Plymouth Brethren held to a Calvinistic soteriology. It's true, Dabney acknowledges that. However, the OP reads as though the peculiar doctrines and innovations of Darby were approved of by some in the Presbyterian Church.
