something LATIN: May 2010

Friday, May 21, 2010

Chart of various Reformed denominations

http://www.tateville.com/churches.html

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

P. T. Forsyth: The Worst Sin is Prayerlessness

The worst sin is prayerlessness. Overt sin, or crime, or the glaring inconsistencies which often surprise us in Christian people are the effect of this, or its punishment. We are left by God for lack of seeking Him. The history of the saints shows often that their lapses were the fruit and nemesis of slackness or neglect in prayer. Their life, at seasons, also tended to become inhuman by their spiritual solitude. They left men, and were left by men, because they did not in their contemplation find God; they found but the thought or the atmosphere of God. Only living prayer keeps loneliness humane. It is the great producer of sympathy. Trusting the God of Christ, and transacting with Him, we come into tune with men. Our egoism retires before the coming of God, and into the clearance there comes with our Father our brother. . . .

Not to want to pray, then, is the sin behind sin. And it ends in not being able to pray. That is its punishment — spiritual dumbness, or at least aphasia, and starvation. We do not take our spiritual food, and so we falter, dwindle, and die. "In the sweat of your brow ye shall eat your bread."("The Soul of Prayer," in A Sense of the Holy, p. 137)

HT: http://richardlfloyd.blogspot.com/2010/03/pt-forsyth-on-sin-of-prayerlessness.html

Monday, May 17, 2010

Thought-Provoking P.T. Forsyth quote on hell / eternal punishment

From http://cruciality.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/who-said-it-4/

Who said it?

26 April, 2010 Jason Goroncy Leave a comment Go to comments

It's been around six weeks since our last 'Who said it?' competition, so probably time for another round (not that we need an excuse or anything). Here's one from the archives:

'Can it be just that God should bring beings into the world unprotected by an infinite armour of foresight against the infinite chances and temptations to wrong, and yet hold them liable to infinite punishment when they had gone wrong? … Punish a man for his sin, that is just; punish him for ages (if in that other world you can reckon time), that may be just; but make no end of punishing him for that sin, reduce him from a man to a devil and keep him there, let him become for ever vile, mainly because he was ignorant to start with, that is not just … Preach the eternal, unappeasable wrath of God upon lost souls and you offer men a devil to worship'.

So, who said it?

30 April, 2010 at 9:51 pm | #5

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The answer is PT Forsyth.