Paul's Passing Thoughts

I want to comment on an article that was brought up at PPT in this post Calvinism and the Cultural Spoon Feeding of Control and Tyranny.  There an article by Jonathan Leeman that used to exist on the 9marks webpage is mentioned.  The article used to be hosted at http://www.9marks.org/blog/what-are-keys-kingdom (link doesn’t work now; it gives you a “Page not found” page).

Basically what the article amounts to is some Calvinist philosopher kings arguing that the Roman Catholic conception of the power of the keys is right, but that rather than belonging to the Roman Catholic priesthood by apostolic succession, it belongs to the Calvinist elders of every “local church.”

I’m guessing that Paul D didn’t have the full article anymore when he wrote his analysis at PPT, and that he only had a few quotes that he copy-and-pasted before it was taken down. Why? Because I resurrected the…