Latte Links (5/16)

 Biblical Ignorance – White Horse Inn Podcast

With Dr. Michael Horton:

In our own informal surveys conducted over the years, the majority Christians we’ve interviewed cannot name the Ten Commandments or define crucial biblical doctrines such as justification or imputation. So why is biblical ignorance so common among Christians today?

Michelle Malkin – Washington Can’t Meet the Cherrios Standard

I think it’s time we applied the same advertising standards to Washington’s legislative products that the feds apply to breakfast foods. The Food and Drug Administration rapped General Mills this week for making misleading claims about the benefits of Cheerios. The food manufacturer says the whole-grain O’s are “clinically proven to lower cholesterol.” The FDA demanded packaging changes to ensure truth-in-labeling. (Read the rest)

Questions – Listening to the Wind

Chad writes:

There are some who would like to say that we should never ask questions of God. There are some who would like to say that we should simply take everything the Bible says as it says it, that we should not question and wrestle with it. Asking questions, some say, is a sign of non-faith.

Rubbish.

If you do not doubt sometimes, then you are not thinking. (Read the rest)

John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion (3.2.17)

Surely, while we teach that faith ought to be certain and assured, we cannot imagine any certainty that is not tinged with doubt, or any assurance that is not assailed by some anxiety. On the other hand, we say that believers are in perpetual conflict with their own unbelief. Far, indeed, are we from putting their consciences in any peaceful repose, undisturbed by any tumult at all. Yet, once again, we deny that, in whatever way they are afflicted, they fall away and depart from the certain assurance received from God’s mercy.

Scripture sets forth no more illustrious or memorable example of faith than in David, especially if you look at the whole course of his life. Yet with innumerable complaints he declares how unquiet his mind always was.

HT: Andy Coticchio

Gallup: More Americans “Pro-Life Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time

A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion and 42% "pro-choice." This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995.

HT: Stand to Reason