After last week’s class, I had a conversation with someone about the need to always be willing to amend our theological views when we are shown that they are at odds with Scripture. That is, whatever system or understanding that we have must always bow to the clear teaching of the Bible.

I used as an example that even someone as well-studied and confident in his beliefs as John MacArthur had changed his position on a secondary theological issue. The issue has to do with the the eternality of the relationship between the first and second persons of the Trinity. Namely, has the Son been the Son eternally or did He become the Son at the incarnation? This will seem a little bit esoteric to some of us, but it raises the question that if John MacArthur can be taught after decades of study and teaching, how much more should the rest of us be open to be under the authority and be willing to be taught by the the Scripture, even when it messes with the clean systems that are so often drawn to?

Here is the article that explains MacArthur’s reversal.