Our own Reformed Apocrypha
It seems to me that, if “The Reformed Faith” is as essential to keeping us from misreading the Bible as some people say it is, we should encourage the publishing of Bible’s bound together as a kind of Third Testament. Maybe some extracts from Luther followed by the Westminster Documents (or just selections from those documents—the clear statements that don’t lead to confusion).
We don’t need to compromise the authority of Scripture, of course. We can point out that the latter selections are not inspired like the first two Testaments, but only that they tell us what those words really mean to say.
But if we’re going to have such a section in every Bible, we should give it a name. Perhaps something appropriate to the importance of the Reformed World And Life View for being really knowledgeable in the Scriptures. Perhaps something that shows how Reformed intellectuals are so important to understanding the essential Gospel message that no one else really gets right except for fellow-travelling Reformed Baptists.
How about First and Second Fleshalonians?
