REVIEW: Mark R. Lindsay’s God Has Chosen: The Doctrine of Election Through Christian History (December 21, 2020)

Dr. Mark A. Lindsay's new book God Has Chosen: The Doctrine of Election Through Christian History (2020) published by IVP Academic is an engaging history of the doctrine of election that is easy to read and is not laden with technical jargon. Lindsay does a great job of summarizing the […]

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“It is significant that the New Testament does not use the term regeneration [being born again], as so often modern evangelical theology does, for what goes on in the human heart” — T. F. Torrance (February 13, 2019)

T. F. Torrance was an evangelical Reformed theologian and was an influential leader in the Church of Scotland. In The Mediation of Christ, Tom Torrance retells an insightful answer to the question asked by a highlander, "When were you born again?" Torrance did answer with his own personal conversion experience, but […]

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Jesus is the Rejected One who was Rejected for All: Karl Barth on the Double Predestination of Jesus (November 16, 2017)

The doctrine of election is a controversial doctrine that is rooted in Pauline theology (and the Mark-Matthew tradition), initially developed by Augustine's doctrine of predestination and later developed by John Calvin's doctrine of double predestination. Traditionally, the doctrine of election begins with God's pre-temporal absolute decree (decretum absolutum) that sorts […]

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Dear Karl Barth, What does Election mean to Individuals? (August 28, 2016)

In Karl Barth's Doctrine of Election, Jesus Christ is the only elected individual, and no other individual is elected like Jesus (Act 4:12), but in him (c.f. Eph 1:4) all people are included in his election (1 Cor 15:22). Since Barth was not a Universalist, this syllogism indicates that there may be individuals […]

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Karl Barth was a PostCalvinist and not an Evangelical Calvinist (February 12, 2016)

In 1922, Karl Barth loved John Calvin so much that he wrote a letter to his friend Eduard Thurneysen to confess that he could spent the rest of his life with Calvin alone! (♥) This short letter, which I've quoted below, has become so famous that anytime Calvin and […]

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Karl Barth on how Double Predestination is the Horrible Decree of a Dystopian Gospel (January 27, 2015)

Welcome sign to Hell, Michigan (source: wikipedia) The doctrine of predestination has undergone substantial renovation and development over time. Augustine and Thomas considered election and reprobation as two separate dogmas, where the active election of men from the mass of perdition was a distinctive act that is separate from the act […]

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John Calvin confessed Double Predestination is a Horrible and Dreadful Decree (May 31, 2014)

~ Updated and Revised: February 26th, 2019 ~ John Calvin confessed that the doctrine of Double Predestination was a horrible and dreadful decree in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin believed that the scriptures taught that God made an "absolute decree" (latin. decretum absolutum) before the foundation of the world that […]

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Jonathan Edwards On God’s People Not In The Visible Church (June 10, 2011)

I came across Jonathan Edwards interesting incite into how a people group may be consider God's elect or chosen people, but also be enemies and outside of the universal visible Church. A more concise summary is in this Edward's document:Misrepresentati...

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Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Election: Double Predestination in Jesus Christ (April 18, 2011)

Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics Vol II.2 is the second half-volume of his "Doctrine of God" and contains Barth's Doctrine of Election. Barth emphasizes his admiration of Calvin's Doctrine of Election, and explains its superiority biblical basis to compet...

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Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards (November 14, 2009)

I purchased and read the new Yale paperback edition of Jonathan Edward's The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 1: Freedom of the Will. Normally, each volume of the Yale Edition of Edward's Works costs over $100! but recently three of the volume were rele...

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