What Does It Mean To Be Reformed? Part 1

What does it mean to be Reformed in the Christian Faith? In this video I give three essential elements necessary to call oneself a Reformed Christian, as well as an explanation of the Doctrines of Grace.

[@duncescotus2342]

Good honest discussion of a potentially and possibly intentionally confusing term-- "Reformed," which ought to be a broad based term for all Protestants, that now outdated term which used to refer to anyone who was a product of the Reformation and not a Western Catholic! Most often today in the US "Reformed" is a euphemism for Calvinistic.
Some thoughts:
1. Sola Scriptura is a false doctrine, in that one can't hold to it without affirming Sola Ecclesia, that is to say, the universal Church which compiled, promulgated and canonized the Bible is the real sole authority. To maintain that God did all these things without human help or at least human hands is disingenuous at best.
2. Substitutionary Atonement is of course a true doctrine, but it is not alone either. Nothing in the new covenant is "alone" or exclusionary to anything else. Other atonement theories such as the Ransom theory (Jesus had to retrieve the keys of death and hell from the Devil) are true and scriptural enough.
3. "Covenantal" theology is vague and outdated. One can forgive the Reformers for not appreciating Israel. One cannot forgive the post-1948 Church for the same mistake. We know about the return of the Jews to the land.
One can be less gracious on the Reformer's legalistic intents, especially those which crept in under the guise of Iconoclasm. Calvin, but not Luther, was against the use of imagery in churches and while not fomenting their destruction, he did, in his typically untypically silent way, for such a verbose man, say nothing when it did happen.
Later documents like the Westminster Confession were clear: all people, "justified persons as not" are bound by "the moral law" of God to "the obedience thereof." However, the Jews had no such distinction between the moral and ceremonial aspects of the law. To be the Passover lamb, Jesus needed perfection, moral perfection. We hear nothing of his physical attributes!
Neither does Paul separate the law. In fact he quotes the tenth commandment as his example of the exacerbation of sin brought to life by the law: "I would not have know what it means to covet except the law said thou shalt not covet, and sin, taking opportunity by the commandment worked in me all kinds of covetousness." He concludes, "apart from the law, sin is dead."
Such a blunder is really hard to pardon, though, praise God, he isn't holding us to our doctrinal purity, even if we hold ourselves to it!
Do I need to go on? Or do you catch my drift, despite your utterly depraved and incapable human brains?