I often read in pieces written by hypercalvinists and even strict High Calvinists the the sentiment that Christ only came to save the elect. Or at the very least, there is often a hesitancy to speak of Christ’s mission to save the non-elect, as if its an expression of the very office and purpose of [...]
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John 17:21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
John 17:22 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may [...]
I thought I would steal this from Theological Meditations. It is very apt given our recent “conversations” here on Theology Online.
Vos:
There is, however, still a third sense, in which Jesus leads us to ascribe universality to the divine love. This is done not so much in explicit form as by the implications of His attitude [...]
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The problem is, we have two sets of statements from Turretin.
One the one hand he says, the revealed contains no volition or unfulfilled desire. On the other he says that God desires compliance to his commands by will revealed.
What Mr Mann is basically doing is the same thing we see from many hypercalvinists [...]
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Calvin:
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Calvin:
1) He says that whether GOD’s word bring life or death to men, yet it always a good and sweet savor before GOD. True it is that God’s word of itself (as it shall be declared more fully hereafter) is always the savor of life . For what is it that God aims at, if [...]
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