Dan Greenfield

Category: Personal Separation

  • Good Reading

    One of my professors when I was in seminary, Dr. Bill Combs, has been writing a series of posts on the KJV-only issue here. They’ve been very good, and I’d encourage you to read them. I’ve had those of this persuasion tell me that the rise of newer translations divides…

  • Holiness Necessary

    Religion is by no means always connected with goodness. In the Greco-Roman world, the two were often entirely separate…the danger was therefore very great that Christianity might be treated in the same way. The early Christians needed to be admonished ever and again that their God was a God of righteousness, that…

  • First Peter

    The modern Church is in grave danger of forgetting the distinctiveness of her gospel and the glorious isolation of her position…The first readers of the Epistle were subject to a similar danger, though it arose from a somewhat different cause. Today we are no longer subject to persecution; but the…

  • Separatism, Individualism, Culture, and…Clothes?

    Erik Wesner at Amish America pointed my attention to yet another resource on the Amish and other Anabaptist groups (there’s been a lot published lately). This one is by renowned Anabaptist scholar Donald Kraybill,  Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites. Erik’s post includes a brief interview with Kraybill,…

  • Movements

    During the last year or so there has been a concerted effort by several men advocating the premise that while there are fundamentalists there is no longer a movement of fundamentalism. One of the reasons put forward in support of this premise is the “fractured state” of said fundamentalism. We…

  • Fascinating

    The following resolution was passed by your United States Congress, October 12, 1778– Click on the image to enlarge. From Journals of the American Congress: From 1774 to 1788, volume 3, p. 85. “…and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners.” One…

  • The Praise We Give

    My systematic theology professor was Dr. Rolland McCune at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. To date he has published three books: Promise Unfulfilled A Systematic Theology of Biblical Christianity, volume one A Systematic Theology of Biblical Christianity, volume two Volume three of his Systematic Theology is forthcoming. I owe a massive…