TeachingTulip
Puritan Board Sophomore
I was thinking specifically of churches teaching their own about how to live consistently Calvinistic (a synonym here could be "biblical") beliefs in every area of practice.
It was another way of getting at the notion that Calvinism is more than just the doctrines of grace, or the five points (not to diminish either).
"Calvinism" has all to do with the Sovereignty of God. Very few non-Calvinistic churches possess such concepts.
I'm curious how systematically churches teach and preach Calvinism in all its facets.
According to the Word of God and the historical Creeds and Reformed Confessions.
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Am I not experiencing God's grace when I read an exceptional explanation of the appropriate division of powers in government, even though the lecturer fails to see the basic incoherence of his presuppositions?
As if grace is extended through the lecturer, to you? No.
You might be providentially given knowledge through such sources, but not according to any Godly grace or Godly wisdom bestowed upon the unbelieving lecturer.
Only God's grace and God's wisdom, known because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God, will enable you to interpret and gain blessing from the knowledge you gain from from worldly sources. For those worldly sources are not recipients of God's grace or God's wisdom.
A consistent Calvinism makes use of what God has provided, even when what He has provided comes from the hands of those hated by God.
Do you agree?
Yes, but this does nothing towards accrediting God's grace or God's wisdom to those worldly, political, statist, and ungodly sources . . .as Kuyper attempted to sell to his brethren in his times.