Reformed Elder
Puritan Board Freshman
I am a little confused as concerns a catechism my wife, who was teaching our oldest in his schooling (home schooled), ran by me this morning to verify. The catechism asks, "With whom did God the Father make the covenant of grace?" A: "With Christ, his eternal Son". Now I have always answered this, "With himself" or "With the Triune Godhead". However, almost all of the Reformed confessions that I referenced answer as this shorter catechism. My understanding has been that biblical teaching affirms that God the Father elects, God the Son redeems, and God the Spirit regenerates and seals (i.e. Eph.1:3-14). If the answer stands as the Reformed confessions declare then what do we make of the Spirit (he is absent in this answer)? Is he then just the "power" that accomplishes what the Father and Son determine? If the Spirit is a "person", as I confess, then is he not part of the Godhead and thus participate in the eternal decree of the Covenant of Grace? I may be missing something here...thus I have come to the place of great minds.