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Reformed Theology and the Future

By Nic Don at Theopolitical In my understanding, unconditional election is so called because God elects individuals with absolutely no reliance upon their decisions. The reason this is theologically necessary to believ…
Romans 9: A Free-Will Reading

[This is reposted as part of our Best-Of Revelife week. It was originally posted on November 16, 2009.] Romans 9 has always been one of the most contested battlegrounds in Reformed-Arminian disputes, so much so that R.…
John Calvin on The Call to Salvation

By Nic Don at Theopolitical In commenting on Jesus’s statement that many are called but few are chosen, Calvin distinguishes between the general call that God issues to all people, and the special call which cannot…
Thoughts on Theology

By Matt at The Church of No People “Hey Matt, are you Reformed?” Pretty often, I get asked about whether I’m a Calvinist, or an Arminian or Reformed or something else. Or someone will want to talk abo…
Romans 9: A Free-Will Reading

Romans 9 has always been one of the most contested battlegrounds in Reformed-Arminian disputes, so much so that R. C. Sproul has proclaimed that Arminian theology is demolished by a single verse from the chapter: "So t…
Do You Believe in Predestination?

I always wondered about predestination. Are we completely autonomous of God, or does God sit up in heaven pulling strings in our life. Neither one sounds too appetizing to me, honestly. I don't really understand how…
Semi-Pelagianism: What Can You Do?

By Jon at The Mockingbird Blog I have recently gone back to school and one of the courses I am taking this semester is centred around the theology of the reformers, specifically that of Luther and Calvin. In class this…