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I was actually visiting my grandmother in the hospital on Saturday, however, and asked about the difference between reformed faith and the Lutheran tradition. The context for this was my question about which seminary my grandfather attended. He mentioned that Luther believed in the sacraments having the literal body of Christ present while Calvin believed the sacraments were symbolic and apparently they could never agree on this. Anyway this might get you started in your research anyway and if you have questions I could always ask my grandparents for their point of view.
The reason they left includes the denomination as a whole is allowing gay ministers now and they don't support this.
In the main, I think most of our men would hold much with Luther and Melanchthon, but later Lutherans departed from Luther's doctrine of predestination and all three uses of the law (for example). If memory serves, Turretin seems to point out where Luther may have even come to his senses over the ubiquity notion at a later point in his life. Anybody recall that in Turretin?
In the main, I think most of our men would hold much with Luther and Melanchthon, but later Lutherans departed from Luther's doctrine of predestination and all three uses of the law (for example). If memory serves, Turretin seems to point out where Luther may have even come to his senses over the ubiquity notion at a later point in his life. Anybody recall that in Turretin?
We'd agree with Melanchthon on the Lord's Supper (which he got from his friendship with Calvin), we'd disagree with him on soteriology (which he got from his friendship with Erasmus).
Chapter X
Of Effectual Calling
I. All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased, in His appointed time, effectually to call,[1] by His Word and Spirit,[2] out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature to grace and salvation, by Jesus Christ;[3] enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God,[4] taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh;[5] renewing their wills, and, by His almighty power, determining them to that which is good,[6] and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ:[7] yet so, as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace.[8]
II. This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man,[9] who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit,[10] he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.[11]
III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit,[12] who works when, and where, and how He pleases:[13] so also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.[14]
IV. Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word,[15] and may have some common operations of the Spirit,[16] yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved:[17] much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the laws of that religion they do profess.[18] And to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.[19]