What Scripture Says About Salvation
The dispute over salvation is ultimately a dispute over what kind of men we are by nature — and what it therefore takes to save us.
What Scripture Says — Volume 2
Submitting the Church to Biblical Authority
What Scripture Says, Volume 2
Fifteen chapters on the questions Christians dispute — and how the text settles them.
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- Paperback ISBN
- 979-8-254309-71-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 979-8-254309-45-1
Where this book belongs
Part of the What Scripture Says series
This book belongs in the What Scripture Says series. It is addressed to Christians and to the questions Christians dispute among themselves. It is a theological argument about biblical authority inside the church.
A different kind of argument
The harder test
Volume 1 addressed the world’s open disagreement with Scripture. This volume addresses something harder: disagreements between Christians who all claim to submit to Scripture and who have drawn different conclusions from it on questions that are not peripheral.
These are not disputes about style, tradition, or denominational preference. They are disputes about what Scripture actually requires. And because both sides of each dispute appeal to the same text, the only way through is to go back to that text with more care than the dispute has so far required.
It is one thing to reject the world’s rebellion against Scripture. It is another thing to ask whether a position held within the church — perhaps one you inherited, defended, taught, or built other conclusions upon — can actually stand before the Word of God.
What’s inside
Fifteen chapters. The questions Christians actually argue about.
The book opens with the doctrinal and moral foundation — salvation, law, ethics — then turns to the household: four chapters on what Scripture says about husbands, wives, manhood, and womanhood.
The final third addresses the theological disputes that have divided the Reformed and broadly evangelical world most sharply: dispensationalism, Israel and the church, the end times, the proper subjects of baptism, church order, and the assumptions that can subtly displace biblical authority.
Selected chapters
A sample of what’s covered
What Scripture Says About Manhood
Headship, responsibility, courage, and the recovery of biblical masculinity in an age that calls it a defect.
What Scripture Says About Sound Doctrine
Why sound doctrine matters for the faith and practice of the church.
What Scripture Says About the End Times
Testing familiar prophetic assumptions against Scripture.
What Scripture Says About Baptism
A careful Reformed Baptist case for credobaptism, engaging the Reformed paedobaptist tradition on its own terms.
What Scripture Says About Assumptions and Authority
What happens when an interpretive assumption quietly takes authority over the biblical text.
From the introduction
These are the kinds of questions this book takes up. Fifteen chapters, each asking what Scripture actually says about a topic the church is actively arguing about — among itself.
The Bereans were called noble because they examined the Scriptures daily to see whether the things they were being told were true. That commendation did not expire with the first century. It is the posture this book assumes, and the one it demands of the reader. A belief is not an identity. The reader who has confidently held a position for decades — defended it, taught it, built other conclusions upon it — has the most reason to bring it carefully back to the text, not the least. Defensiveness is not faithfulness.
Who this book is for
Believers willing to be corrected by the text
This book is not addressed to outsiders. It is addressed to Christians — to readers who already affirm the authority of Scripture and who are willing to test, against that authority, the conclusions they have inherited and the conclusions they have drawn. The reader who insists on emerging from this book holding every position he held entering it has not used it as intended.
What Scripture Says — Volume 2
Submitting the Church to Biblical Authority
What Scripture Says, Volume 2
Fifteen chapters on the questions Christians dispute — and how the text settles them.
You’re on the list. You’ll hear from Lyman directly when this book is live.
- Paperback ISBN
- 979-8-254309-71-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 979-8-254309-45-1
Continue
Continue in What Scripture Says
Continue to Volume 3 for the personal application of biblical authority, explore the whole series, or return to Volume 1.