What is Reformed Theology? | GotQuestions.org
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- Is it wrong to believe Reformed Theology? What is the meaning of TULIP and what does Reformed Theology teach? In this video, we answer your question: What is Reformed Theology?
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"No man can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him and I will raise him up on the last day." John 6:44 The argument for our own willingness to be saved without the Father drawing us is settled by our Lord in this passage. He said "can", which means we lack the ability to do so.
Good verse and notice the keywords "can" - able to and "draws" - pull or make His grace known or convict. You end up making a choice afterwards. Not forced upon you. Generally, the unsaved hears the word of God and the Holy Spirit brings about conviction. A draw that gives the unsaved an opportunity to say Yes or No.
I used "Generally" because God is not limited and can choose to elect someone even before he was in his mother's womb or allow a man to be birth with leprosy for His glory. God is all we know of from Scripture and He loved the "world" so much that he sent His begotten Son to die for the "world". Not for those He had elected but for whosoever believes in Him. Whosoever hears and is drawn by Father and have faith in the Son. Whosoever...
The word Draw in Greek literally means (to DRAG ) no need to drag someone if they are willing.
For the Believer…
People tend to exaggerate man’s ability. People claim the sovereignty of god but idolize and lift up man above the power of God. Mans free will, man’s choices, man’s desires, men’s apparent God giving gift of free thought and unlimited free choice.
Reality-
You cannot undo, change, shift or influence the outcome of the sovereignty of God.
Truth-
The sovereignty of God overcomes our blunders, our mistakes, our fumbles.
Cold reality-
Everything played out in the linear time was preplanned - foreknown and predestined by God himself.
So the next time you worry about screwing up a witness to an unbeliever remember that even that screwup was a part of the plan.
Never dare to assume that your own contribution caused your salvation.
You did not cooperate with Grace
You did not learn or realize who God was.
You weren’t allowed anything beyond what God allowed first.
So why would an unworthy sinner have any kind of authoritative power over the power and sovereignty of God? Either God is a Big God or he’s a god that needs your free will help.
Remember that the next time you share the word of God with an unbeliever and remember …while the whole world lies in the power of the evil one, the redeemed AND unredeemed lie in the power of the sovereignty of God and every word uttered from your mouth is the plan and action of God.
Don’t just be bold, be confident that every word spoken is not yours but his. Your mistakes are your perceptions. They neither undo nor shift or change the outcomes of God.
That is reformed theology.
Great work you're doing. Thank you very much
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"a non-dispensational view of Scripture"
Oh, I wish you had explained this!
Dispensationalism reads the scriptures as showing different dispensations. So, now, since Jesus's sacrifice on the Cross we are in the Church age or dispensation till the Rapture of the Church, then Israel will again be at the centre of History till Jesus's 2nd coming.
I believe in it: it has answered all my questions. The Reformers had so much on their plate, when it comes to eschatology, they didn't depart much from the Catholic doctrines.
John Macarthur is a Reformed and dispensationalist pastor.
He probably should have said a Covenantal or Federal view of scripture instead of "non-dispensational." There are several variations of interpretative schema to be found within the Reformed world, especially ones that are particular to Presbyterians on the one hand and Reformed / Confessional Baptists on the other.
Thank you for this. Great video!
Amen GQ! good one! 🙂🙏🙏🙏
By grace through faith means "my" faith is that I am saved by His sovereign and preordained grace alone and "my faith" is also by and through the author and perfecter of "my faith" Jesus Christ. Where's the boasting of any flesh apart from or outside of God?! If there's any, then it's only in the Lord! I gladly accept, receive and rejoice in God’s sovereignty over "my" free will and I'm glad to be clay in my one and only Potter's hands❤ The word of my testimony is that we overcome the accuser by the blood of the Lamb 🙏🏼🥳💯
Amen, I believe the same way
And by the word of our testimony. ❤
Amen.
God produces our faith
John 6:44
King James Version
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Ephesians 2:8-10 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Its a gift from God not from our ownselves
I have a genuine question, how does this view explain "That WHOSOEVER believes in Him, should not perish"? I just wonder how that ties in?
You really should make the attempt to answer your own questions.
There will be an Epochal Eclipse a CROSS North America on April 8th 2024, when MORE shall be revealed to those with "eye and ears." The rest will see only an eclipse. Don't stare at the sun -- Matthew 16: 4. Exercise YOUR faith -- Jonah 3: 5, 8 Jonah 4: 11
"Whosoever" means God's Elect. Yes, God does love the whole world. But He does not love the sins of the world. As you read and study the Bible, you will find that God "Chose" certain individuals before the foundation of the world, to be in Heaven with Him someday. Not because of any good or bad things we would eventually do. God is Sovereign, He can do whatever He wants. He does not choose anyone to go to Hell. We are all born sinners, and were headed to Hell. The Chosen or Elect, still need to ask Jesus Christ into their Heart and Life, and want to follow Him as Lord and Savior. God will see to it that the path of the Chosen/Elect will lead them to choose Jesus Christ at some point in their life. He does not choose anyone to go to Hell. He is just letting them go along the path that they were on from the beginning. Could God have chosen ALL to go to Heaven? Yes. Could God have let ALL of us go to Hell? Yes. As I said before, God is Sovereign, and knows exactly what He is doing, and we need to trust that. I do not know if you are a Born-Again Believer or not. But if you are not, do not give up hope. Ask God to prepare your heart and guide your steps. We (Believers) do not know who God has chosen. So we need to keep preaching the Gospel to everyone. I did not ask Jesus Christ into my heart and life until I was around 46 years old. I can look back at my life, and see how God kept me from dying several times, to get me to that point in my life, of accepting Jesus Christ. When a person accepts Jesus Christ, and asks Him into their heart and life, and wants to follow Him as Lord and Savior, that is the point when the Holy Spirit comes into them and takes up residency.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household.
Longtime Evangelical here whom will probably be converting to Lutheranism in the near future.
Many here in the evangelical movement do not understand the early church (probably never read them). The things they will criticize Catholics for are NOT the beefs that the reformers had. The reformers do not object to confession/absolution, receiving the body and blood through Holy Communion, baptismal regeneration, etc. These are later developments. The things they were criticizing were SPECIFIC things linked to these practices. Like confession and absolution being REQUIRED, the superstitions in the mass, indulgences/purgatory, etc.
Why didn't they see what we think we see? Were they dumb? Were they afraid to make radical changes because it might rock the boat amongst people who were in the Catholic Church? Were they Catholics in denial? Why?
All I'm saying is that we in the Evangelical movement are standing outside of classical Protestantism and in a category of our own. And we should reassess where we are and why we are where we are.
It is my prayer that GotQuestions will re-assess some of it's doctrine (like I have been forced to do) and link itself to say the Lutheran Church.
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I was invited to a small study group headed by the pastor of a large church. The book being discussed was “A Concise Theology” by J.I. Packer, a five-point Calvinist. Someone posed this question to the group:
“How many of you, if given, the opportunity, would be able to choose which one of your loved ones would go to heaven, and which ones would go to hell? Please raise your hands.”
Not one person raised their hand, including the pastor.
The person went on to say, “How is it then, that we, who are evil, find it impossible to choose which of our loved ones would go to hell, yet attribute that capability to God, Who is perfect love?”
The pastor looked at that person and said, “That was really good, and you’re definitely not a Calvinist .”
He then told the group that there was no point of continuing the study.
“And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:2)
Do you think that experiment is biblically sound?
One of the issues with what you wrote is we are not God. He is infinite, we are finite, He is holy, we are wicked, His ways are not our ways. He Is love, He is also perfectly just, perfectly righteous, and good. His wrath is perfect, as is His mercy and grace.
Three questions:
First, is there any who will go to hell?
Second, did God know everything that would ever happen, knowing the ends from the beginning?
Third, would it have been better for Judas if he was never born?
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@@bjornegan6421 Not only was that question biblically sound, but it had merit, due to the fact that God’s heart was in question. The whole point of Christ’s atonement was because of God’s love for the whole world, as evidenced in 1 John 2:2.
Tell me, what does that verse mean to you?
If you can answer that question, I’ll answer your three questions.
Yes indeed Our Lord Jesus Christ died for the sins of the entire world. 1 jn2:2 says so. In that respect the Limited atonement of Tulip needs to be refined. But 1 jn2:2 doesn’t teach universal atonement. Simply put the same Jesus who paid for the sins of the entire world also said that no one comes to the Father except through me. Therefore there needs to be a want to come to the Father and a faith in Jesus Christ. All those who reject the Father or simply ignore Him , or have no knowledge of Him or his son Jesus Christ cannot come to Him. Therefore there is but one place left for them when they die!
That logic has been used to justify all kinds of un-biblical ideas, such as the 'non existence of hell'
What Reformed Theology twists to conform to their leader and high priest John Calvin. Yet here is truth on the matter.
Ephesians 1:3-5
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
as He chose us “in Him” is referring to Christians already saved not unsaved!
Same like in Romans 9
29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
he also predestined “to be conformed to the image of his Son” it is talking about the Christians not the unsaved!
Luke 9 :35 A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.”
“whom I have chosen” Jesus was the first chosen for a task of salvation! Chosen nothing to do with being saved!!!
1 Peter 2:4
4 As you come to him, the living Stone-rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to
him-
“but chosen by God” again Jesus is chosen by God. For a task not saved or not saved!!
Most people teach that election and the choice of God has to do with God deciding which unsaved sinners He wants for Himself. But right away, we see problems with this, for Christ is the first chosen one, and He was not an unsaved sinner.
Ephesians 1:4 shows us furthermore that when God chose Christ, He also chose us. Whom does the “us” refer to? From Ephesians 1:1-2, they refer to Paul and the believers to whom he was writing. In verse 3 the word “us” refers to those who are blessed in the heavenly realms. In verses 6, 7 and 8, “us” refers to those who have received the riches of God’s grace. So whom does the “us” refer to? It cannot refer to anybody but those who are already Christians.
Christ is the eternally begotten Son of God, and God chose Him for a special task. But in choosing Christ, God also chose those who are in Christ-in other words, Christians. This verse does not teach that God chose unregenerate people to become Christians. This verse teaches that God chose Christians.
“He chose us to be in Him.” If God chooses some of the unregenerate to be regenerate, then this verse should say that God chose us to be in Him. But that is not what it says. It says, “He chose us in Him” not “He chose us to be in Him.” Whatever this choice is, it was done when we are already in Christ. Christ and Christians are the chosen ones, but the emphasis is on Christ.
Jesus ultimately is the chosen one, and by nature of being in Christ, we were chosen because He is chosen.
The only individual chosen in Ephesians 1:4 is Christ. When we place faith in Christ, we are placed “in Him” and so become chosen in Him because He is chosen. In other words, Christians are elect because we are in Christ and He is elect. Only those who are in Christ can be referred to as elect or the chosen in Christ.[3]
Ephesians 1:4 is before the foundation of the world. Since the primary chosen one is Christ, the primary focus of this phrase is also Christ. It is Christ who was chosen before the foundation of the world.
This means that before the world was ever created, Jesus Christ was chosen, and by inference, all who would eventually be placed “in Christ” by faith in Him were therefore also chosen. So this choice took place in eternity past, before the foundation of the world.
“Why did God choose all those who have placed faith in Christ?”
He chose them, according to the end of Ephesians 1:4, so that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. This is a task believers are to strive for and a future that God guarantees.
What is Reformed Theology?
As Spurgeon said, "Its just another name for Biblical Christianity."
Have you heard Alistair Begg's response to the question "how does someone become reformed?"
@@bjornegan6421 tell me
@@bjornegan6421 lol yes! great response
"Calvinism, also called Reformed Christianity, is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Calvin and various other Reformation-era theologians." - Wikipedia
Augustinian theology (AD 354-430)
Reformed Baptists are 1689 and use Heidelberg
I remember how reformed teachers would harp on God doing everything front to back while covertly burdening me with being preoccupied by weather or not I’m being legalistic instead of coming right out and just agreeing with Scripture that the 10 Commandments are still binding. Over and over again look at how Jesus described “law” or lawlessness……..you had BETTER regard His Commandments, all 10.
Edit: what “law” could Jesus have been talking about? Definitely not man’s law- there is only one “law” we all clearly know of- it’s the 10 Commandments.
I’m looking for a biblically sound church here in New Jersey ! I’m hoping I do been going to one but I’m not to happy with it !
Its hard
It could be God has you there because He is showing you something about what you want you did not know before, but would not have been as easily taught somewhere else. While you are there, well asked questions can cause a change. You may not see that change before you move on. May the Lord grant success to you in your searches.
I was recommended to my local church by grace community church in California ~ maybe you can reach out to them for your area I’m sure they’ll be able to help ❤ God bless
PRC Corbin City
yes please.....
give me the other half of my check and whats left of the robbery
ALL SHEEP ARE CALLED, HEAR AND BELIEVE.See John 10:3,16,26,27.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me John 6:37.
Ye have not chosen me ,but I have chosen you .John 15:16
Amen the prophecy in the bible second coming of Christ
If there is a Calvinist reading this, can you answer one simple question that I have:
"Did God decide to create millions upon millions of people (with absolutely no choice to repent) simply so that they can be tormented forever in hell for his pleasure?"
I just cannot wrap my brain around this thought so could a Calvinist enlighten me on this?
Did Paul "choose" Jesus on the road to Damascus? Paul could not want what he didn't want unless God intervened and changed his heart. Or maybe Paul stopped by a seeker-sensitive mega church along the way and got manipulated by the strobe lights and smoke machine during "worship" to make a decision for Jesus... ;-)
Thats not the issue I am having with it. Only when you get the idea of ECT is the problem. The Bible is clear you will get destroyed in hell and God owes nobody eternal life and he can flood us again. My issue is why do anything at all. Pray but it's all predetermined, Preach but Satan has blinded everyone and God will save whoever he desires and he can do it with you or without you, do good works but they are all filthy rags, lead a godly life to lead people to the truth and leave their sin, but only if God decides.
Arminianism is also a reformed theology. Maybe these guys need to do a little bit more homework.
It is Roman Catholicism without all the pomp.
Did Paul "choose" Jesus on the road to Damascus? Paul could not want what he didn't want unless God intervened and changed his heart. Or maybe Paul stopped by a seeker-sensitive mega church along the way and got manipulated by the strobe lights and smoke machine during "worship" to make a decision for Jesus... ;-)
"It does not limit the will of the creature nor does it make God the author of sin." Yes it does. Calvinism is lunacy.
God's Sovereignty, "Declaring the end from the beginning...", Isaiah 46:10. Everything has already been determined for His glory.
God in His foreknowledge declared the end rather than "determined" Romans 11:33-36 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.❤😊
@@incognitoprime9523 If God in his foreknowledge declared the end, doesn't it means that God determined something to end ?
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Totally reject the TULIP doctrine. No one will ever make me believe God predestined some for Heaven and others for Hell. Totally contradicts scripture
and because of the argument of the perseverance of the saints. lol a saint can decide to not have faith in Jesus anymore and thereby not follow God anymore- and God would have to accept it...
@@emmanuelakb Man that must be complicated for Jesus. "Oh cool my work was sufficient for this guy, oh wait nevermind, oh look he's back, ah darn he's gone again". That sure doesn't sound like a sovereign God to me.
It actually doesn't. It's literally in scripture plain as day, it's just inconvenient so people try to modify it or ignore it.
@@joshm.5463 God being sovereign does not imply that He supersedes people‘s free will. We are not bots. And I concur, the work of Christ on the cross is complete and sufficient for every man- yet not every man is saved, why is that? Because it is a matter of choice. Jesus has done His part, men just have to accept that grace. There are unfortunately people who upon accepting it initially fall away. Hebrews 6:4f. Have a nice day
@@joshm.5463 I agree, the Apostle Peter taught it in 1Pt 2:6-8
John 3:16
“For God so loved the ELECT, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” oh wait....John 3:16
“For God so loved the WORLD, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
John 15:19
If God so loved the world, then why He "chosen" some people out of the world ?
Isn't it salvation for the World ?
If it's only for who believe, then how can it called the world ?
@@JondittoBecause it's his LOVE to the world god is not bias he offers a free gift of salvation for everyone, It's on you if you're going to accept it or not.
@@James_0308 if God offers salvation for everyone, then why He said this:
He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, “ ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’ ”
Mark 4:11-12
It's clear that God don't want some people to understand so they will repent and get saved.
In this passage,
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
Matthew 11:21-24
If God knew from the beginning Tyre and Sidon will repent if the miracles perfomed, why did God not performed the miracles to Tyre and Sidon ?
It seems God don't want save Tyre and Sidon ?
@@Jonditto So you're actually believing that salvation for us was limited? If god chooses his people to be saved let me ask you a question tell why should god accept you in the kingdom of heaven? Are you different from other people?
If that were the case @@James_0308 then nobody would ever be saved because nobody chooses God of their own flesh. God must enable you to do so.
Reformed Theology is Biblical Theology
Tulip is Calvinistic mindset. study
" whosoever"
The original Greek translation of John 3:16 for the 'whosoever' part reads 'all of the believing'. God is Sovereign. He chose His elect before the foundation of the world. Read Ephesians chapters 1 and 2. Man doesn't choose Christ and in fact cannot unless God elects him and regenerates him to do so. Salvation is for God's glory not man's.
@@tomw6271ridiculous. Free will has always been part of Gods plan, it’s literally how the angels were able to rebel against him in the first place.
God does not create people just to damn them to hell, that would not be an all-loving God.
God "Determined the end from the beginning...", Isaiah 46:10. The beginning includes the time before He created angels. Use scripture or your argument is invalid.
And?
Where in scripture does it say, 'free will has always been part of God's plan'?
Reformed theology nails God’s Commandments written stone by His very finger “to the cross” as well as a host of other heresies. Escape before you block out any more Bible truth in fear and codependence of your neighbors and ignorance of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible refutes every point of this disgusting human philosophy.
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Oh, so it's not _all_ protestants, nor a specific denomination, but rather the haughtiest family of protestant denominations.
It's whoever God wills.
@@tomw6271Ridiculous. Free will has always been part of Gods plan, and people are free to rebel or worship God, just as the angels did.
as in the other reply, "God determined the end from the beginning...", Isaiah 46:10.
Projection, much? Wow.
Wanna know what's really going on? The devil and dragon remain on Earth, and they know their judgement is set for 10/12/26. Revelation 12: 12-13. And so, they plan to prove mankind unfit for God's kingdom with a worldwide war, and thereby, to absolve themselves of blame. "Not my fault." the devil argues, "Jesus, Himself, tried to teach these beasts to love one another, 1,993 years ago -- almost two full days in Heaven. Surely, the Ancient of Days will judge Man at fault. Or Jesus. Not Me."
2 Peter 3: 8 Matthew 5: 44-48 The devil is delusional -- Daniel 7: 9-14.
These videos keep showing up in my recommendations.
Tulip needs to get born again and read the Bible
Reformed Theology deos not exist. As the major faiths still believe in some similitude of a human created "god" and really not the ONE TRUE CREATOR, YAHOVAH, IS NOT A god, BUT WAY, WAY, WAY, MORE THAN THAT.
Bs man made theology