Extract from God Didn’t Die on the Cross: Calvinism on Westminster Confession of Faith 8:7 & Larger Catechism 39 – To read the full text, click “Download” below.
The famous Scottish Theologian Dr. Robert Shaw once wrote an excellent book on Calvinism titled The Reformed Faith. It bears the sub-title: An Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith [1845]. On page 112 of its 1974 Christian Focus Publications edition (Inverness), Shaw states: “The human nature alone could suffer and die.”
Shaw is by no means a lone maverick on the above point. Consider too the following additional Calvinistic authorities on WCF 8:7: …
