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The Heart of the Calvinism Debate: Monergism vs. Synergism
(Image courtesy of Monergism.com) Even though I could go through and give arguments for each of the five points, I believe this is much more helpful. This debate cuts directly through to the core of...
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Calvin: Man’s Spiritual Blindness Shown From John 1:4-5
“But we are drunk with the false opinion of our own insight and are thus extremely reluctant to admit that it is utterly blind and stupid in divine matters. Hence, it will be more effective, I believe,...
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Calvin on the Resurrection of Christ
Next follows the resurrection from the dead, without which all that has hitherto been said would be defective. For seeing that in the cross, death, and burial of Christ, nothing but weakness appears,...
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David, the Bread of Presence and the King of Glory
Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king...
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Faith Implies Certainty – Calvin
This is a “prophetic” word from Calvin out of the Institutes related to the postmodern sensibilities of Western Christianity. I’m not implying Calvin was speaking directly against postmodernism itself...
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Faith and Hope, an Inseparable Pairing – John Calvin
Wherever this living faith exists, it must have the hope of eternal life as its inseparable companion, or rather must of itself beget and manifest it; where it is wanting, however clearly and elegantly...
View ArticlePiety Versus Legalism
The words ‘piety’, ‘holiness’, ‘righteousness’ amongst others are words few hear today from church pulpits without thinking of the evils of legalism. Even the word ‘religion’ has been lambasted to the...
View ArticleCalvin on Man’s Righteousness Compared to God’s
Aroused consciences, when they have to do with God, feel this [free justification in Christ alone] to be the only asylum in which they can breathe safely. For if the stars which shine most brightly by...
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The Gospel-Centeredness of John Calvin – The Gospel as the Foundation Unto...
Excerpted from the Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, Chapter XV, Section 5, Christ as the Sole Foundation, As Beginner and Perfecter. The below section from Calvin’s Institutes is an...
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Why Christ Was Crucified – John Calvin, Institutes II.XVI.VI
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.iv.xvii.html The very form of the death embodies a striking truth. The cross was cursed not only in the opinion of men, but by the enactment of the Divine...
View ArticleForeshadows of Christ in the Old Testament – John Calvin
Christ is Isaac, the beloved Son of the Father who was offered as a sacrifice, but nevertheless did not succumb to the power of death. He is Jacob the watchful shepherd, who has such great care for the...
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