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Originally Posted by BobVigneault  Benjamin, you are setting up some aggressive premises that are sinking your arguments from the start.
Calvinism is not the Gospel. It would be accurate to say that Calvinism contains the most pure form of the Gospel, relative to other sytematics.
The 5 points are not Calvinism. The 5 points are a response to the 5 points that the arminian remonstrants put forward.
Calvinism is best expressed in his Institutes and can be outlined and summarized but never reduced to 5 points.
Spurgeon was not an arminian but was indeed calvinistic. |
If Calvinism is NOT the Gospel, as you say, then how can you say that it contains the most pure form of the Gospel, relative to other systematics? Also how most reformed theologians, If i am correct, understand the equation of Calvinism with the Gospel, is that the 5 points of Calvinism are the doctrines of the Gospel. That is my issue here.
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