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2. We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who possesses perfect and exhaustive knowledge of the past, present, and future, and who preserves, regulates, governs and directs all things so that nothing in the world happens without either his causation or permission. God is the author of good but not of evil. Yet even evil is governed by God in that God limits it and directs it to an end fitting with his overall plan and purpose.
3. We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, dying on the cross as a substitute and sacrifice for sinners. He arose bodily on the third day and ascended to the right hand of the Father. He will return personally and visibly at the end of the age to fully establish God's Kingdom.
4. We believe that part of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and, during this age, to convict sinners, enable them to believe, regenerate the believing sinner, and indwell, guide, instruct, and empower the believer for godly living and service.
5. We believe that humanity was created in the image of God but fell from its original sinless state through willful disobedience and Satan's deception, resulting in eternal condemnation and separation from God. In and of themselves and apart from the grace of God human beings can neither think, will, nor do anything good, including believe. But the prevenient grace of God prepares and enables sinners to receive the free gift of salvation offered in Christ and his gospel. Only through the grace of God can sinners believe and so be regenerated by the Holy Spirit unto salvation and spiritual life. It is also the grace of God that enables believers to continue in faith as well as good in thought, will, and deed, so that all good deeds or movements that can be conceived must be ascribed to the grace of God.
6. We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and his resurrection were provided for the salvation of all people, but are effective only for those who believe. Christ's death and resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation, and only those who believe in Jesus Christ become born of the Holy Spirit and thus become children of God.
7. We believe that God’s saving grace is resistible, that election unto salvation is conditional on faith in Christ, and that persevering in faith is necessary for final salvation.
8. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead; of believers to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord; and of unbelievers to judgment and eternal punishment.
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3 comments:
That is the only natural conclusion to be drawn from calvinist doctrine. All I can say is that the person responsible for the statement is merely being true to his doctrine.
Too many Calvinists want to hold to their theology but don't want to recognise or admit to the full consequences of their doctrine. They try to hold to a Calvin-Lite theology with all of the nasty parts removed. However, the removal of those nasties is also a removal of the foundations of Calvinism.
I have defined three types of Calvinists:
1) The one who recognises and understands the full implications of their theology and is honest enough to admit to those implications (the author of the comment you cite for example).
2) The one who recognises and understands the implications but are NOT honest enough to openly admit to them.
3) The confused Calvinist, who hasn't really given much though to the matter and doesn't really want to think of the implications of their theology.
Wow, who made that quote?
Kevin,
I encountered this on a discussion board and it was made by a rather hardcore Calvinist who is clearly deranged in his thinking. Unfortunately, I really wasn't surprised by his comment but it does reflect just how perverse Calvinist doctrine can carry a person to.
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