Category: Calvinism
Free Will?
Many years ago I was exposed to the work of McGregor Wright, No Place for Sovereignty:What’s Wrong with Freewill Theism (Downers Grove,IL: IVP, 1996). When I first read it it challenged me as I had recently made a transition to “Calvinist” thinking. However, this book led me down a more consistent road. It was McGregor…
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Free Will or Semi-Pelagianism: A Sanctioned Specter.
In recent years there has been a reservation on the part of Reformed[1] minded Christians to categorically state that all forms of Semi-Pelagianism are heretical. Not only is this timidity puzzling but the boldness by which these folks announce holders of a libertarian — free-will — theological outlook as “brothers in Christ” is rather alarming.…
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Definitely Determined: The Day of Destruction
I know how much hatred there is for the doctrines of Calvinism. I have been attacked and accused of misrepresenting God with my views. From the epithet of ‘extreme’ or ‘Hyper-Calvinist,’ to being maligned as a ‘hard determinist,’ the latter is something that I do embrace. It needs some qualification, of course, as there are…
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Quotes from John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
These are from the Ford Lewis Battles’s Translation: ” . . . as God regenerates only the elect with incorruptible seed forever [I Peter 1:23] so that the seed of life sown in their hearts may never perish, thus he firmly seals the gift of his adoption in them that it may be steady and sure.”…
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