Mostly sharing quotes from old Reformed dead guys and trying to bring clarity to misrepresented views of the Reformed tradition. Check out my YT channel ⬇️
Do Augustinians believe that sin has corrupted the essence of man? That humans are of a sinful substance as Ai-generated quotes claim we believe?
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A Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican discussion.
My words against Replacement Theology are harsh because many Christians aren't calling it out for what it is.
Apart from the topic of Justification, the widespread teaching of Replacement Theology is the biggest fraud of Scripture, and it's been promoted for 1800 years.
Christ offered himself on the cross for all men, as to the sufficiency of the price, but for the elect only as to its eficacy: because he brings salvation to the predestinate alone
—Peter Lombard
What Total Depravity DOES NOT mean
- Man is born as wicked as possible.
- Man is born calloused and hardened to God.
- That unregenerate man can’t do any altruistic good in society.
- That unregenerate man can’t be religious.
- That unregenerate man can’t intellectually
@ArmenThomassian
With sincere respect to your daughter, how does the opinion of one child determine what is girly and what is not. What even is a girly sounding song? Can you explain what is girly about it?
What other songs are girly and can you show me a study or any tangible evidence on how
“God elected believers; but He chose them that they might be so, not because they were already so.”
—Saint Augustine
On the Predestination of the Saints
Shame on you
@megbasham
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@gavinortlund
is a bulwark for Protestantism and probably the best there’s been in modern times. What an unhinged and slanderous thing to paint him as a shepherd for sale.
@wretchedmarine
This ain’t it man.
We should strive to not be so tribalistic. Many of us can strongly disagree with Leighton but there’s no need to insult the man.
If the Jewish people repent and believe in Christ, they will be grafted back into the Israel of God. That is our prayer and hope for the Jewish people and all people who don’t believe the gospel of Christ.
"The orthodox constantly maintain that sin is to be distinguished from the substance itself, as an accident and vicious quality from its subject. Every substance was created by God and in this sense is good"
— Francis Turretin
‘Institutes of Elenctic Theology’
T or F?
Some of these “Christian” Nationalists would rather have an atheist neighbor of their same ethnicity/race than a Christian neighbor of a different one.
Jew & Gentile Christians = Israel of God, true circumcision, true Jews
Nation of isreal = Synagogue of Σατάν
This isn't antisemitism. Misunderstand this and your theology goes the way of supporting a godless and satanic nation.
The Young, Restless, & “Reformed” movement was mostly a negative for Reformed tradition but I feel positive about the Reformed Scholastic retrieval movement in the younger generation.
Provisionists believe one must exercise their free will by accepting Christ to be saved but deny that God effectually brings any to saving faith.
However, infants who die don’t have the capacity to respond. Does God, then, save them despite their inability to choose?
@ProvisionistP
“For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.”
1 Corinthians 7:14
The death of Christ is represented in Holy Scripture as a universal remedy applicable to each and every human being for salvation, according to God's ordination and the nature of the thing itself.
—John Davenant
A Dissertation on the Death of Christ
The 4 Hyperist “Hyper-Calvinist” Distinctions:
1. A rejection of God’s well-meant offer.
2. A rejection of God’s desire for all men to be saved.
3. A rejection of the sinner’s duty to savingly believe in Christ.
4. A rejection of God’s general love and common grace for all.
Reprobation is not a decree necessarily excluding persons not-elect from all possible means of salvation; but a decree permitting such out of freedom of their own wills to neglect and abuse such means of their salvation…
—John Davenant
𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨
God’s choice to predestine a specific people for glory is not why any man is condemned. Rather, man is solely under condemnation for his willful rebellion against God and his refusal to believe in the Son, who shed His blood so they may receive forgiveness and eternal life.
“Total Depravity” doesn’t mean that unregenerate man can in no sense understand any truths about God or perform external goods (civil virtues). Rather, they don’t receive these truths in their hearts and don’t do good acts in faith.
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There is no dilemma.
God’s choice not to predestine some for glory is not the cause of their unbelief and condemnation. He has chosen to effectually bring many to faith while leaving others under the condemnation of their sin. He is under no obligation to effectually lead all
We, who worship by the Spirit of God and Glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, are the circumcision. We are the children of promise. We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession.
God desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. And there is only one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. Repent and believe!
Why is calling out the injustices and atrocities committed by the godless nation of Israel antisemitism?
How is stating that true Israel is the Church, and being an ethnic Jew doesn’t make you a child of God, boasting over the natural branches?
Did you know the Canons of Dort don't explicitly affirm or deny limited atonement? They were written in a way to be accepted by delegates on both sides. English delegates, who believed in universal satisfaction, influenced the 2nd head of doctrine and fully affirmed the Canons.
One issue with modern Calvinist TulipBros is that they hyperfocus on God’s decretive will and secret plans at the expense of His revealed will, to the point that they strip the revealed will of including real and genuine desires of God. The Scriptures are much more nuanced.
Let us leave to God his own defense. He does not need us to protect him from being considered cruel or unjust.
Let us believe the Scriptures, which proclaim in many places that we are born corrupt and tainted.
—Peter Martyr Vermigli
𝘖𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘪𝘯: 𝘝𝘰𝘭. 1
All people are under God's care; but he has a particular regard to his church. This is the signet on his hand, as a bracelet upon his arm; this is his garden, which he delights to dress; if he prunes it, it is to purge it; if he digs about his vine and wounds the branches, it is
Neither Calvin nor his fellow Reformers, nor the authors of the Canons, would have reduced their confessional position to TULIP.
—Richard Muller
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That it is not false that Christ died for all men as it regards his conditional will, that is, if they are willing to become partakers of his death through faith. For the death of Christ is set before all in the Gospel, and no one is excluded from it, but he who excludes himself.
I’m looking forward to seeing what happens with the Reformed Retrieval movement, especially within Gen-Z. They are correcting the overcorrection, lack of sophistication and reckless language of the modern Calvinist popularizers and going back and being true to Reformed orthodoxy.
I have fancied I have seen in certain hyper-Calvinists a sort of Red Indian scalping-knife propensity; an ogre-like feeling with respect to reprobation; a smacking of lips over the ruin and destruction of mankind; as to all of which, I can only say that it seems to me to be
The entire Church was not apostate until the Reformation.
“in the papacy there is true Christianity, even the right kind of Christianity and many great and devoted saints...”
—Luther
“when we categorically deny to the papists the title of the church, we do not for this reason
Reprobation is not a denial of sufficient grace, but a denial of such special grace as God knoweth would infallibly bring them to glory.
Neither doth the decree of preterition shut any man under a necessity of sinning and being damned, but it permitteth men voluntarily and
“[TULIP] Not only is it reductionistic, it has often led to a very mistaken and narrow reading of the Canons.”
—Richard Muller
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- God’s Decree is basically what he has eternally decided to bring to pass.
-His decree is executed through the free choices of man and God’s providence.
- Adam has no idea what God has decreed
- So there’s no obeying or disobeying his eternal decree.
- The decree is not a
If God decreed Adam's desire to sin and Adam could not disobey God's decree then Adam had no choice and was forced to desire to sin.
It's double speak to say otherwise.
God it is who draws to His Son those whom He calls; He does not compel them by force against their will, but He makes them willing from unwilling and by all sorts of ways overcomes the resistance of their unbelief.
—St. Prosper of Aquitaine
𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯
@Young_Anglican
To the crazies, this doesn’t matter to them. They desire zealous vitriol and division so they can get a false sense of piety and masculinity.
The late R.C Sproul said Christ became an incarnation of human sin during the crucifixion. Hyperbolic or not, this is utterly reckless and wrong. Sin isn’t substantive, so it can’t be incarnate. Christ was TREATED as a sinner; He bore our guilt but did not become sin itself.
We must make every effort to draw everybody to the knowledge of the gospel. For when we see people going to hell who have been created in the image of God and redeemed by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, that must indeed stir us to do our duty and instruct them and treat them
[Regeneration] is not a removal or taking away of the old substance or faculties of the soul. Some thought that the substance of Adam's soul was corrupted when he sinned, therefore suppose the substance of his soul to be altered when he is renewed.
Sin took not away the
…seeing that men are created in the image of God and that their souls have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, we must try in every way available to us to draw them to the knowledge of the gospel.
—John Calvin
Sermons on Acts 1-7, Sermon 41, Acts 7:5
Where are my Arminian brothers at? I miss you guys. Despite our differences, my experience with you guys are usually very pleasing even when sparks fly. On top of that you guys tend to have a solid theological foundation. Come back 🥲
Dominican priest Dr. Cajetan Cuddy:
“…I am only able to freely know and love God in a supernatural way because God has caused me to know and to love him freely.” 🔥
God desires that all men come to faith and repentance. He invites all men who hear the good news to come receive life and forgiveness of sins found in Christ. Christ is the remedy to our sicknesses. Those who do not believe will die in their sin and perish. Turn to Him and live.
@WWUTTguy
Stop that. You’re being completely divisive and dogmatic over something that doesn’t need to be.
To compare what Gavin shared to the lie of the serpent is complete dishonesty.
“ The greatest distinction between a regenerate and a natural man is this, self is the end of one, and Christ the end of the other. ”
—Stephen Charnock
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
@catholiccom
@JimmyAkin3000
Catholic Answers casually telling catholics to not hold to their own historic view of predestination. 😂
The Thomistic Institute > Catholic Answers
Preach earnestly the love of God in Christ Jesus, and magnify the abounding mercy of the Lord; but always preach it in connection with His justice…but regard love in the high theological sense… Never exalt one attribute at the expense of another.
-C.H Spurgeon
God’s mercy appears in this:
1. That he wills the salvation of all men.
2. That he defers punishment, and invites all to repentance.
3. That he accommodates himself to our infirmity.
4. That he redeems those who are called into his service.
5. That he gave and delivered
God invites all indiscriminately to salvation through the Gospel, but the ingratitude of the world is the reason why this grace, which is equally offered to all, is enjoyed by few.
—John Calvin,
𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨
Sad state of affairs in the Reformed world when a lot of the most robust and best videos explaining providence, free will, predestination and reprobation are from Roman Catholic Thomists.
God’s foreknowledge in itself is not a cause why things are, except as it is conjoined with his decree. For things do not therefore come to pass because God foreknew them; but because He decreed and willed them, therefore they come to pass…
The same decree of God, is the first
@ProvisionistP
How is Chris being misleading or lying?
Provisionists often mislead and straight up lie about what Calvinists believe. Often they impose their own stupid “logical” conclusions into their presentation of our beliefs.
Calvinists affirm free will, the Reformed have always
@AnthonyZimbardo
How so? What exactly about Reformed Theology was novel to 500 years ago? Our view of predestination, reprobation, and synchronic contingency existed way before the reformed were around.
@WomnOfValor
If anyone is confused, she is saying that a platform exclusively for girls on Twitter would enable them to discuss topics relevant to them without encountering unsolicited explanations from men in the comment sections.
A Brief 5 Point Summary of God’s Eternal Decree, His Foreknowledge, His Providence, Human Choice, Divine Permission & Sin
1. God's Eternal Decree: Reformed theology holds that God, from all eternity, ordained whatsoever comes to pass by the wise and holy counsel of his will. By
the promises of the Gospel make offer of the grace of Christ equally to all; and God, by the external call, invites all who are willing to accept of salvation.
—John Calvin
“𝘊𝘊𝘊𝘐𝘝.—𝘛𝘰 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯, (28𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 1552),” 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧
Christians finding this kind of disrespect towards Mary humorous is concerning.
Mary was blessed among women and is the mother of our God. She deserves reverence and respect. We don’t need to overcorrect and disrespect her to dunk on the papists. You’re being worse at this point.
Do the soteriology obsessed anti-Calvinists ever engage in theological debate with anyone other than Calvinists?
Muslims? Unitarians? Athiests? Mormons? JWs?
No? Probably not or nowhere near as much. It shows.
“Who is drawn, if he was already willing? And yet no man cometh, except he be willing. Wherefore he is by marvelous means drawn to be willing by him, which knoweth how to work inwardly, even in the very hearts of men: not that men should believe against their wills, which is
I guess it’s not a big deal to present fake Ai written quotes and wrongfully attribute them to Theologians who are from a Tradition you despise?
@The_Idol_Killer
@ProvisionistP
Puritans did not treat men like blocks of stone or wood. They evangelized them as men with minds and wills, and thus with responsibility for their actions…The universal call dignifies its hearers as human beings endowed with intelligence, personality, and moral accountability.
Before I have had time to do my en response to Ortlund, eagle eyed
@coconservative7
caught this false claim in his video.
@gavinortlund
claimed I misrepresented his comment about consensus. As you can see, I didn’t.
@gavinortlund
There’s so much vitriol that comes from pride and arrogance on twitter.
I don’t see why Christians are so quick and ready to pounce on their brothers and discredit and disparage that person’s ministry over these things.
God’s goodness is meant and designed to bring men to repentance and salvation; and when I say ‘men’ I mean all men, unbelievers as well as believers. We are dealing with unbelievers here. The Apostle is arguing with men who will not repent and he says, even to them, that God’s
If they their bio looks anything akin to this:
“1689. REDEEMED BY GOD’S SOVEREIGN GRACE ALONE|5 SOLAS|SOLI DEO GLORIA|DAT POSTMILL 🌷”
Be prepared for an unhinged take 😘
If God’s prescience takes away the liberty of the creature, there is no such thing as a free action in the world (for there is nothing done but is foreknown by God, else we render God of a limited understanding)…
It was necessary, therefore, that Christ should suffer, that God