What is Reformed Theology? | GotQuestions.org

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?

[tomw]

"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.

[incognitoprime]

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 🙏🏼🥳💯

[kathybuttsarnold]

Good morning. Thanks for your ministry!

[Yesica]

2:39
"a non-dispensational view of Scripture"

Oh, I wish you had explained this!

[Gloriagal]

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)

[LovelyHi]

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?

[KNIMinistries]

Great work you're doing. Thank you very much

[StarAccount-kmrt]

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.

[theder]

What is Reformed Theology?
As Spurgeon said, "Its just another name for Biblical Christianity."

[divinityofblackness]

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.

[SolaScriptura]

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household.

[AdventureSMBW]

"It does not limit the will of the creature nor does it make God the author of sin." Yes it does. Calvinism is lunacy.

[canadiankewldude]

"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)

[vanillacreem]

Totally reject the TULIP doctrine. No one will ever make me believe God predestined some for Heaven and others for Hell. Totally contradicts scripture

[Jesusisking]

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?

[generalleigh]

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.

[robertgasper]

Reformed theology is when the original theology was too hard and people wanted to water it down. A good example would be when Jesus taught about the Eucharist. Many people in attendance said this teaching was too hard (they equated it with cannibalism) and they walked away. Jesus did not stop them. He then looked to his apostles and asked if they too would leave to which Peter replied to whom else would we go, you speak the words of eternal life. Just as those in attendance found the teaching of Christ too hard and left, Protestants have found the teachings of Christ's Church, the Catholic Church, too hard but rather than walk away, they created their own religion. Man-made, holding some elements of the truth, but not the true Church.

[EYTSIRHC]

Reformed Baptists are 1689 and use Heidelberg

[MelbaCox-xt]

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

[EugeneHolley-rcry]

So deceptive in his words, Total depravity is not true in the way he explains it, Romans 3:9-18 is Paul referencing Psalms 14 where it says the fool has said in his heart there is no God, if that is you then those verses apply, but not if you believe there is a God they do not. The scripture is clear Jesus paid the satisfactory payment for the sins of the whole world, John the Baptist said he was the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. That is why Jesus said that whosoever believes shall not perish, but have eternal life. 1 Timothy 1:15 Paul said this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, if you are a sinner he came to save you. My bible says we are all sinners and have fallen short of the glory of God, so his offer is to all, not some, there will be those that believe and are saved, and there will be those that don't believe and are not saved. When he says God took the judgment from the elect he is twisting scripture, it does not say that it says Jesus took all of man's sin the whole world, not the elects, you cannot find that scripture that says he died for the elect. You can find the scriptures that say he died for all men, and that he includes everyone in the world. There is not one doctrine in TULIP that is biblical, and Armenians are not biblical either. This is heretical because it calls the word of God a liar. Calvinism is a Cult, the same as the religion it came from Catholicism.