Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God and the exact imprint of His nature. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made; and all things were created from him and through him and all things exist for him
These are quotes from the Reformed Orthodox or Scripture. E.g.
Twisse: It is incumbent for all the elect to seek salvation not only by faith but by works also.
Zanchi: Good works are an instrumental cause of the possession of life eternal, for by these as by media and by the
Every book in the New Testament teaches that our eternal destiny hinges on doing good works
There is no salvation without obedience
Good works are necessary if we are to be saved
You will not be forgiven without repentance
Do not be deceived: You will reap what you have
I was thinking a few days ago that the default approach of the church over the past 100 years has been avoiding pronouncements on moral issues in order to avoid “binding consciences”. So you get weak, ahistorical, and unclear approaches to e.g. contraception, IVF, politics,
Peter Martyr making the friend-enemy distinction:
We may not use evil guile with our friends. Notwithstanding, against our enimies it is not forbidden; because it may be in the steed of armour. Wherefore, if it be lawfull to take armes against them justly, it is lawfull
Abortion is far, far worse than the Holocaust. It is far, far worse than American slavery. It is far, far worse than any mass killing, any war, any genocide, any disease, any one event.
It is the worst atrocity ever committed by humans in the history of the world.
@Kdubtru
I know this is hard for many
breathers, but people don't NEED air. You may need air, that's ok, that doesn't mean everyone else does.
Believing that you know what others NEED is both supremacy in you and wildly disrespectful of others.
I’m reading this for the first time and wow is it good! Literally everything is in here.
What’s really stood out to me so far is how effectively liberal, promiscuous women can just completely decimate a society and how much of our current problems can be traced back to the
In hopes of helping revive Reformed Metaphysics, I have published Senguerdius's On General and Special Metaphysics to the Lulu bookstore: Here is the table of contents:
Seeing as I was the one who put Vermigli's quote out there in the first place, I do want to make a few comments on this. I think
@tlloydcline
already settled the issue a few months back here:
But I do want to make a few things clear:
1) Deceit is not the
@JLSteffaniak
Some of the Reformed Tradition for you,
@JLSteffaniak
:
“We may not use evil guile with our friends. Notwithstanding, against our enemies it is *not* forbidden; because it may be in the stead of armor. Wherefore, if it be lawful to take arms against them justly, it is lawful also
How Scotus-Bashing Can Backfire for the Reformed🧵:
In Reformation as Renewal, Barrett cites Nieuwenhove saying that Scotus is an "occasionalist as to the sacraments, denying their instrumentality" (234n123). Its unclear whether Barrett thinks this specifically to be good thing,
Don’t let the pozzed academics dissuade you. Every one of the Reformed, down to the man, would be on the side of Christian Nationalists. We have the Reformation on our side; they wear our tradition as a flesh suit.
Biblical-theologians across the board need to stop trying to draw philosophical conclusions, whether that be metaphysical or ethical. They're not good at it and it can't be done from their discipline but needs to be left to dogmaticians and philosophers.
This sort of argumentation is why we desperately need to recover classical distinctions in causality and teach them in seminaries. An instrumental cause and the object the instrument grasps do not establish “two contrasted principles of justification”. I am begging theologians to
Edward Dennett had formerly held to the imputation of the active obedience of Christ as the basis of our righteousness. He says Scripture changed his mind.
Whenever I read the Reformed Orthodox talk about how the magistrate ought to be virtuous so as to inspire others to virtue, I always thought it was sad that I couldn’t think of a recent example where I can look at someone and have that happen for me. This completely changed that.
The Reformed had no objection to calling good works necessary to salvation... as the means and ways to obtain eternal salvation... not a meritorious but a preparatory and dispositional cause.
– Herman Bavinck
also to use guile, according to the saying of the poet; What matter is it against an enimie, whether a man use fraud or force? Howbeit, this must be considered, that we speak only of those enimies, which either God himselfe, or the publike weale, or a just magistrate declareth
To be fair, this is a serious question, but anyone who has studied this should know that there is already an answer here. If you want more, you can check out this paper but the short answer is that God infuses the soul “when the embryo is provided with a
Calvin prof Kristin Du Mez says in the ab**tion debate, we have an "impoverished theological discourse" on "ensoulment," or when the soul enters the body.
In other words, let's figure out how much time we have to k*ll a fetus before we're morally culpable for k*lling a soul.
I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment asking God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thought heavenward
It was the Magistrates dutie to take away their head for Sodomie, which certainly it was, and that by the verie law of nature.
– Samuel Rutherford
#Pride2023
#PrideMonth
The fact that the early Baptists had no problem enforcing Sunday sabbath laws has important implications. It cuts against the “but X is special revelation so you can’t civilly enforce it” argument I dealt with here: Completely irrelevant. Nobody among the
@BradyJBush
Because the document is a coherent whole. It both denies merit as well as affirms that good works are a necessary means to eternal life and these do not stand in opposition to one another.
We need more Franco Burgersdijks. Men who aren’t theologians, even actively avoid engaging the discipline, but who spend their whole lives studying reality and natural philosophy to tell you the way that things really are. True lovers of wisdom and knowledge.
We need Reformed metaphysicians; faculty who focus specifically on that field and continue the tradition of Keckermann, Burgersdijk, Paulus Voet, and Gilbert Jaccheus. I know of nobody doing this today.
Enough of the gender insanity and the pandering to avoid hurting someone’s precious feelings.
The Olympics just allowed a biological man, Imane Khelif, to pummel Italian Olympian Angela Carini.
She lasted 46 seconds because to how painful it was:
“I have never been hit so
Shall it be my own righteousness that I celebrate? Nay, O Lord; I will make mention of Thy righteousness, even of Thine only. For that is mine also, since Thou Thyself hast become my righteousness.
– Bernard of Clairvaux
Please go buy my friend, Francisco Tourinho’s new book. He has written an excellent and technical introduction to Calvinism that has seen great fruit in Brazil, now translated into English. Very highly recommend it
Voetius on 3 possible explanations for werewolves:
1. Disease, which the physicians call lupine melancholy or lycanthropic madness, & make a species of Melancholy
2. Corruption of the phantasy by the devil, by which it happens that men falsely imagine themselves to be beasts &
I simply will not accept King James slander after his takedown of Vorstius. He was a better theologian than most professors teaching theology proper today.
I love how people in the 17th century literally did not care at all about plagiarism. It constantly happens that I’m reading Turretin and I realize, “wait he stole this directly from X”
Gisbertus Voetius contra war crimes:
Is it lawful to use assassins and murderers against kings or princes with whom there is a state of war? It is denied.
Is it lawful to destroy cities by fire and give all the inhabitants over to slaughter? It is denied with distinction.
Is
At the nursing home in 2075:
My caretaker: Ok Zoomer. Looks like it’s time to get blackpilled. Your etherium savings have run out and it’s time to put you in the SpaceX suicide pods, you agepilled lifemaxxer.
Me (ripping my bayblade one last time): erm…what the sigma?
The reasons are:
1) the nature of the crime: murder, the unjust taking of human life, being the greatest crime one can commit against man.
2) the number of murders (50 million in US since 1973, most by any atrocity).
3) the circumstance of the murders (by their own mothers).
Holy Scripture is always perspicuous in itself, but it is difficult and obscure to us for two reasons: due to the difficulty of the things that are taught and due to our corruption.
– Franciscus Junius
If you listen to the objections of unbelievers to Christianity, e.g. it apposes women’s rights and o abortion, feminism, homosexuality, a universal tolerance, etc. they’re all grounded not in an opposition to Christianity per se, but to a “right-wing” view of nature.
Voetius:
Marriage is a positive state taken on, while celibacy is a deprivation. Just as form is more perfect than matter (as stated in Aristotelian philosophy), marriage, being a positive state, is considered more perfect and noble than celibacy, which is a privation.
Big thank you to
@AmReformer
for publishing my article. Would love to hear any feedback. And to be clear (despite the clearly provocative title) the article isn’t just relevant to Baptists, but considers the very reasons for establishments in the 1st place
Augustine says the the animals were preserved in the ark to prefigure the various nations preserved in the church. I've always found this interesting since Gen. 9 and Deut. 2 establish a connection between the animals on the ark on the Canaanite nations.
I very much do not like how the majority of the Reformed placed our final end in Heaven as opposed to the New Earth. I don’t know how this came about but it’s a terrible departure from the previous Christian tradition.
I genuinely don't understand how someone can read the Reformers and reject final justification.
It's so clearly in Turretin, Owen, Twisse, Goodwin, Calvin, Rutherford, Ames, van Mastricht, Zanchi, Burgess, Perkins, Ursinus
If they aren't "Reformed" idk who is 🤷♂️
Praise-God Barbones () named two of his sons Jesus-Christ-Came-into-the-World-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-for-Thee-Thou-Hads't-Been-Damned Barebone.
@MallardReborn
I was gonna say “they went around massacring Jews for no reason” prima facie already sounded like he was leaving important things out lol