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"For your reading pleasure, below is a link to every major reformed systematic theology available online since the Reformation (that could reasonably be found by a fallible human being, etc.). (I'm sure I missed a few, if so feel free to link more below). The list is currently around 105...

Trinity: https://challies.typeform.com/to/I1ntTT Scripture: http://www.challies.com/resources/a-quiz-on-the-doctrine-of-scripture Doctrine of Christ: https://challies.typeform.com/to/zfV3mn Scripture: http://www.challies.com/resources/a-quiz-on-the-doctrine-of-scripture How did you do? AMR

Although the following reading guide was targeted at year 2015, it remains relevant for any year: https://www.monergism.com/blog/monergism-reading-guide-2015 Note: Just refresh the page if you get a link error...it is a common problem at monergism.com for inbound links. "If you work through...

All should feed their faith and starve their doubts by not neglecting daily Scripture study, rejoicing in hope, being patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer (Romans 12:12), fellowship with other believers, keeping good stewardship of the secular and spiritual gifts God has...

From Hebrews we learn that there are three basic elements in true faith. 1) Knowledge, notitia 2) Assent, assensus 3) Trust, fiducia In Hebrews we find a full teaching about Biblical faith. The writer, speaking under the superintended guidance of the Holy Spirit in Hebrews 11:1, does...

My response to questions posed by an open theist, Pastor Bob Enyart, is available to review here: http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?41620-One-on-One-BR-X-A-Calvinist-s-Response-(Ask-Mr-Religion-vs-Enyart)&p=1520803#post1520803 A single file pdf version of the online debate is also...

God’s Love and Justice The love of God is the peculiar benevolence He possesses as the loving God Himself (1 John 4:8). His intra-trinitarian love is the delight that God has toward Himself (cf. John 5:20). This is the basis for the love God expresses toward His creatures, which can be...

How can any believer know they are saved? It is certainly not a Calvinist only issue. Scripture commands us, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5). We need a...

The word eternity is easily pronounced but hardly understood. This is due in part to man’s frailty of nature, as a creature bound to time. Eternity, being in conflict with time, is an attribute of God that largely exceeds man’s mind. Eternity is a perpetual duration without succession, having...

There is but one true God. These thoughts from Haykin (modified a wee bit) are worth meditating upon. Within the borders of the universe that humanity inhabits, there are two types of beings. First, there are those beings that are dependent on another. This category encompasses everything from...

God’s foreknowledge seems a stumbling block to some that may have incorrect understandings about what God knows and why He knows what He knows. Knowledge of all things is properly attributed to God (2 Cor. 12:2–3; cf. Acts 2:23; Rom. 8:29; 11:2; 1 Peter 1:2). The idea of foreknowledge can be...

The Arminian embraces contradiction easily. They have no answer to John 3:16 other than a humanistic notion that man is able and therefore must be persuaded. And when man comes to an inner grasp of that which he is being persuaded, he will perhaps choose rightly. The moment we start asking...

I have yet to meet an actual historic Arminian as described and condemned at Dordt. The teachings of Arminius were modified along the way such that today's "Arminian" is nothing like that described in the time of Dordt. Instead, these average "Arminian" folks are quick to claim they are saved...

We are admonished to make ourselves a living testimony of our faith and tell all that any who call upon the Lord will be saved. God uses these actions as but one of the means by which His ends are accomplished, for He ordained the very means for His ends. We do not know who the unregenerate...

Another Reformed distinctive is the teachings of Scripture as relates to Adam's federal headship of all his progeny such that when he sinned all mankind was plunged into sin and corruption. This is commonly referred to as the doctrine of original sin. Original sin consists in both (and in...

Two other Reformed distinctives would be paedo-baptism and covenantalism. For two useful summaries, see: Paedo-baptism http://rscottclark.org/2012/09/a-contemporary-reformed-defense-of-infant-baptism/ Covenantalism http://rscottclark.org/2012/09/theses-on-covenant-theology/ Within the...

Another item worth noting is that from a church perspective Reformed is generally associated with conservative Presbyterianism, as in the NAPARC churches. These Presbyterians are not to be confused with the Presbyterian Church USA [PC(USA], a liberal group that has long since abandoned its...

The historical teachings of the Reformation behind the Five Solas, comprises the basic tenets of the Reformed faith. Scripture Alone -- Isaiah 8:20, "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Human traditions cannot be...

In forums like this one where theological discourse is taking place, precision of word usage is important, in fact vital, for proper discussion. We cannot communicate effectively if we are all using words with multiple meanings to everyone involved. Accordingly, yours is a very good question...

Only a God who remains eternally and essentially the same can have a counsel that stands for ever (Isa 46:10) and a covenant that is everlasting (Isa 55:3, Jer 32:40, Heb 13:20). The Protestant orthodox state three implications of this immutability: first God is changeless in essence, not liable...