Well I appreciate the links one of them lead me to something that has a bit of substance to it. One of the things I noticed on VanderLaan's website was his insistence that you needed to think like a "Hebrew" to truly understand the scripture. That just set off all sorts of alarms about the perspicuity of scripture doctrine and the sufficiency of scripture doctrine. I see that he graduated from Westminister and was ordained a pastor by the CRC. On his personal biography page it says he is in graduate studies in Jewish Studies at the Yeshiva University. So correct me if I am wrong but what does yeshiva studies have to do with Christianity? They don't recognize Jesus as the Messiah so wouldn't their hermeneutics be wrong?

Anyway I talked to my friend about the sufficiency and perspicuity of scripture and he hadn't heard anything about it. So going to look up some articles for him and send them to him.

Peter

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo