#clavinism

[calvinistwoman]

“Jesus fulfilled the moral dimensions of the law by living in perfect obedience to it, by revealing its depths, but also by paying the penalty for our breach of it. He was born under the law to redeem us from its curse—which he received so that we might receive the blessing. The law-maker became the law-keeper, but then took our place and condemnation as though he were the law-breaker.”

-Sinclair Furguson

[rolkientolkien]

Some people aren’t going to like this, but it’s true; you don’t accept Christ, Christ accepts you. If we are born children of Wrath as described in Ephesians 2:1-10, then how can we seek after God? Paul makes it quite clear that no one seeks after God in Romans 3:10-12, so then how are we saved? It is by the hand of God that we are saved,

 “ 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,” (John 6:37-40, ESV). 

This means God gets all the glory for our salvation, which He declared at the beginning of the world, not peering down the corridor of time, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them,    the days that were formed for me,    when as yet there was none of them,” (Psalm 139:16, ESV)

[calvinistwoman]

“Regardless of the official theology held on paper, moralistic preaching (the bane of conservatives and liberals alike) assumes that we are not really helpless sinners who need to be rescued but decent folks who need good examples, exhortations, and instructions.” ― Michael S. Horton, Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

[rolkientolkien]

[crazy-lady-says-words-blog]

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