Tag: Calvinism
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What does it mean to be “Reformed”?
The question of what constitutes Reformed Theology dominates both academic and popular conversations. There are those who assert quite specifically and confidently that being Reformed involves being Calvinistic, covenantal, confessional, and paedobaptistmal, calling any who fail to uphold these pillars as “not really reformed,” which is surely a surprise to the Reformed Baptists among us.…
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On “once saved, always saved”
Failing to teach perseverance will lead people to false assurance based on a profession of faith rather than on true faith.
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Dragged kicking and screaming into the Kingdom?
When God sovereignly saves a sinner, does he drag them kicking and screaming into the Kingdom?
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Even foreseeing is foreordaining
Does the Arminian understanding of “elect according to the foreknowledge of God” provide a satisfying answer to the question of sovereignty and free will?
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Meritorious Self-Faith
What if we considered the implications of autonomous free will? What would that do to our ideas of merit and grace?
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Interesting thoughts on the Calvinist/Arminian divide and how it speaks to our other divides
What happens when two friends disagree on a matter?
ordo salutis 