Summary of T.U.L.I.P.
The acronym TULIP represents the so-called five points of Calvinism, which are, in brief, as follows: 1. Total depravity. Both because of
View ArticleGod’s Eternal Purpose
In Ephesians 3:11 Paul speaks of God’s “eternal purpose [πρόθεσιν, prothesin] which he accomplished in the Christ, Jesus our Lord” (author’s translation).
View ArticleHow Does God Know the Future?
A few early theologians questioned whether God bothers himself with a knowledge of earthly trivia (that is, “singularities”). Jerome, for example, thought
View ArticleWas the Judicial Law abrogated under the New Testament? We make distinctions.
I. The forensic or judicial law concerned the civil government of the people of God under the Old Testament and contained a
View ArticleOf the Law of God
Chapter XIX. Of the Law of God Section I.–God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he
View ArticleInfant Baptism
Jesus’ Great Commission mandated his church to make disciples of all nations, to baptize them, and to teach them whatever he has
View ArticleAre Christians Freed from the Moral Law?
QUERY I: Are Christians freed from the moral law as a rule of obedience? Our text (John 8.36) is the main basis whereon
View ArticleThe Threefold Pattern of the Sanctified Life
The Scriptures do not leave in any doubt the issue of the pattern according to which the Christian is to conform his
View ArticleBiblical Infallibility
Warfield defines inspiration as follows: “Inspiration is that extraordinary, supernatural influence (or, passively, the result of it,) exerted by the Holy Ghost
View ArticleGod is Spirit
II. The second thing, that “God is a Spirit.” Some among the heathens imagined God to have a body; some thought him to have a body of air; some a heavenly body; some a human body; and many of them...
View ArticleKnowledge
The problems of knowledge that are raised by the biblical revelation are chiefly two: first, what is the nature of God’s knowledge, and, second, what is man’s knowledge, particularly man’s knowledge of...
View ArticleHow God is Eternal
I. How God is eternal, or in what respects he is so. Eternity is a negative attribute, and is a denying of God any measures of time, as immensity is a denying of him any bounds of place. As immensity...
View ArticleWhat is God?
God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. Q. 1. What kind of substance is God? A. God is a spirit. “God is a spirit; and...
View ArticleA Short Shorter Lesson : Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
No one, reading the opening chapters of Genesis, can escape the reality that Adam had invited the wrath of God upon himself. But what about the rest of us? The 5th-century British monk Pelagius argued...
View ArticleWhat Makes Up the Human Nature?
The dichotomist affirms that the Bible teaches that man’s constituent elements are the material body and the immaterial soul (or spirit)—two ontologically distinct entities—which are in a mysterious,...
View ArticleThe Ascension of Christ
Did Christ ascend properly by a local movement from the lower places to the supreme heaven of the blessed; or metaphorically by disappearance? We affirm the former and deny the latter against the...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between the Two Natures of Christ
Two rocks are to be shunned about the hypostatical union, Nestorianism and Eutychianism. I. Although the mode of the hypostatical union is positively unspeakable (arrētos), still it is not badly...
View ArticleWhy was it called the Tree of Life?
I. Another tree (by which, as a sacrament, God wished to seal the promise given) was the tree of life. Regarding this name opinions differ. Why called “the tree of life”? Not effectively. II. Some...
View ArticleThe Unity of the Church
I. Among the attributes of the church, the first is its unity, which flows from its nature. For since it is a holy society and a mystical body, embracing all the elect united in the bond of the same...
View ArticleProgressive Sanctification
They, who are once effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart, and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified, really and personally, through the virtue of Christ’s death and...
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