It's Hard to Believe that Donald Grey Barnhouse was Reformed

[bookslover]

I've been using his four volumes of expositions based on Romans as part of my devotional reading.

No more.

I've had a few grumbles with him along the way, but then, at the beginning of a chapter based on Romans 6.14b, he emitted this howler:

It was a tragic hour when the Reformation churches wrote the Ten Commandments into their creeds and catechisms and sought to bring Gentiles into bondage to Jewish law, which was never intended either for the Gentile nations or the church.

This guy was Reformed? Maybe he was a closet Dispensational or something. Amazing.

I'll be looking for something else to add to my daily quiet time reading.

 

[Wayne]

Time to jump over to the good Doctor Lloyd-Jones.

To the best of my knowledge, Barnhouse was indeed a dispensationalist.

 

[whirlingmerc]

I agree. He should have rethought that statement

Was it tragic for Paul to say "children obey your parents, for this is the first commandment with a promise, that you would have long life and live long in the Land"?

 

[bookslover]

Time to jump over to the good Doctor Lloyd-Jones.

To the best of my knowledge, Barnhouse was indeed a dispensationalist.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm somewhat burned out on Lloyd-Jones at the moment. Maybe that Calvin guy....

 

[Wayne]

Who?

 

[bookslover]

I should add that I read that Barnhouse quote to my pastor, who said, "If I said that from the pulpit, I'd be brought up on charges."

Indeed.

 

[Hamalas]

Barnhouse was a pillar of conservatism in a very difficult chapter of American Presbyterian history. Was he confessional? Hardly. He was a dispensational premillennial who wouldn't be allowed in most Reformed pulpits today. However, in God's providence, it was the faithful tenacity of men like him that allowed the PCA to come into existence. I'm not saying this to excuse, only to explain. No doubt others know far more about this than I.