Federal Visionists love to paint themselves as “Biblicists” who take the Bible at face value. They accuse us of placing tradition above God’s word.
Admittedly, we are more familiar with the Reformed confessions, but as we have unmistakably proven over the past month, we are quite capable of handling God’s earlier revelation when necessary.
As much as the Anti-Federal Vision Study Bible has ministered to the elect, we would have an even greater advantage over our foes if we had our own version of the Bible. Perhaps NAPARC could be persuaded to publish a new translation to bring the light of the Reformation to God’s word.
This would make our job of rebutting Federal Visionists even easier. We could clarify some of Jesus’ careless statements, insert “alone” where Paul mistakenly left it out, and edit those pesky passages in James where he confusedly speaks of "justification" by works and not by faith alone.
In general, we could bring the Bible into line with the magisterium of twenty-first century reformed thought. We could call it the “Modern Reformation Bible.”
