By Matthew Claridge– With a fair share of poetic justice, Dr. Fred Zaspel has been riding to the defense of one of the Faith’s greatest defenders of the last 150 years, B.B. Warfield. His much acclaimed The Theology of B.B. Warfield has introduced a new generation of readers to the intellectual powerhouse of this Old [...]

By Fred Zaspel– “God Our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ”: B.B. Warfield on Some Often-Overlooked Evidence of Early Trinitarianism In Warfield’s day it had become popular in some circles of professing Christianity to claim that the theological distinctives of the Christian faith stemmed from the later influence of Greek philosophical thought. As Christianity grew [...]

By Fred Zaspel – “To obey is better than sacrifice.” (1 Sam. 15:22) We all know the story. King Saul was commanded to take no spoil from the Amalekites but to destroy everything, including even the animals. When the prophet Samuel discovered the many animals Saul had kept for his own use he roundly condemned [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel -    Most boys of my generation did it. It was frowned upon then too, even if not as much as today. But, I confess, we did it. Anymore, dogs are confined to the yard. But when we were young the dogs ran the neighborhoods of suburban Peoria, IL. We knew [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel Augustine once reminisced on an earlier act of theft he had committed. While walking home one day he sneaked into a neighbor’s yard and stole a pear. Now looking back on the event he began to wonder why he did it. Why would he steal his neighbor’s pear? It was not [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel –   I have never been part of a country club, but I have visited a few with friends who were members. And the experience has always been a good one. Country clubs exist because people are social beings. We like to mix with other people, make friends, and we like [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel –   Our generation of Christians ought to be marked by a distinct note of gratitude to God for his mercy in raising up multiple, clear voices from so many quarters of the Church to call us — Christians and churches alike — back to that which ought to be the [...]

Fred Zaspel is the author of The Theology of B. B. Warfield: A Systematic Summary (Crossway, 2010) and a regular contributor to Credo Magazine and blog. Recently, Eric T. Young asked Fred a variety of questions such as: what he thinks of Mark Driscoll’s caricature of Warfield,  the process that led to the writing of [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel – I’ve heard the song only a couple of times now, and so I can’t quote it exactly. But it’s message goes something like this: it’s not our interpretations that matter, it’s not our firmly held positions, it’s not the doctrinal points we argue over — “It’s still the cross!” The [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel –   Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) is well known as the great polemic theologian of Old Princeton Seminary. He is also well known as the great exponent of the inspiration and authority of Scripture. Accurate as these pieces of biographical data are, however, neither captures the heart of this great Princetonian. [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel -    You are familiar with the setting, of course. Having left Egypt forty years before, while tending the sheep of his father-in-law, Moses comes to Mount Horeb and sees “this strange sight” — a bush ablaze with fire though not consumed by that fire. A fire burning on its own, [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel The epistle to the Hebrews was written in large part to exhort professing Christians to continue on with the Lord. Some were being tempted to turn back, and the Biblical writer warns them urgently of the awful consequences of leaving Christ. If we leave Christ we will have no savior and [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel –   Proverbs 14:17 counsels us, “A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated” (ESV). This proverb warns of human anger and its results in relation to others, and it does it in a most interesting way. Notice that two men are identified in [...]

By Fred Zaspel – Augustine once reminisced on an earlier act of theft he had committed. While walking home one day he sneaked into a neighbor’s yard and stole a pear. Now looking back on the event he began to wonder why he did it. Why would he steal his neighbor’s pear? It was not [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel – God and Sin We have all noticed how trials of whatever kind somehow have built into them a strong potential for sin. Physical suffering, emotional stress, bereavement, persecution — trials of whatever kind — bring with them the temptation to faithlessness, giving up, callousness, bitterness, despair, and a host of [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel – After King David and the people of Israel had given generously toward the coming Temple which Solomon would build, David paused for worship. His prayer is famous for its exalted praise: Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O [...]

By Matthew Barrett This past Saturday marked the birthday of B. B. Warfield (Nov.5, 1851 – Feb.16, 1921), the lion of Princeton. Many have called Warfield the greatest theologian since Jonathan Edwards. Today we would like to draw your attention to a short article by Fred Zaspel introducing Warfield, called “Remembering B. B. Warfield.” We [...]

By Fred G. Zaspel One aspect of God’s omniscience is his knowledge of the future. Open Theists have denied this, of course, but the question is not really a difficult one. Over and again in Scripture God is presented as knowing what will happen. Not just selectively but exhaustively God knows all that will be. [...]

By Fred Zaspel The Significance of Warfield The doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture is so closely linked to the name of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) that they sometimes seem nearly synonymous. This is not because Warfield originated the doctrine, of course, although some have mistakenly charged him with that. Inerrancy and Warfield belong together, [...]

On our “Reviews and Interviews” page, Fred Zaspel has reviewed Jonathan Leeman’s new book, Reverberation: How God’s Word Brings Light, Freedom, and Action to His People (Chicago: Moody, 2011). Zaspel begins, Surely every Christian acknowledges the power of God’s Word. Well, at least as a creedal statement we all would acknowledge it. But whether our [...]