Joe Chin

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross...

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@BornAgainBalaky actually, you might want to pray that. Because our confidence and assuarace in all of God’s promises to his people, including the redemption of all elect, flow from that singular divine act of his will from eternity past.

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@PeterJKratofilo famous last words of the modern biblicist

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@DineshDSouza your initial error is located at “like all sovereigns.” This presupposes a univocal order in which God exists within the same ontological order as creatures.

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@DineshDSouza Calvinists do not find assurance by virtue of their “true understanding of election.” Where did you learn this?

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@DineshDSouza Would you prefer remonstrants?

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@fallennomore420 @ChristandGuitar 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@PatAbendroth “final justification” is romanism rebranded and redressed in modern garb

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@philipnation Theoretical-Practical Theology, van Mastricht.

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

False conceptions of God are not just mistaken or unbiblical, they are impious and unholy.

Modern American Christianity has so focused on practical idolatry (eg., Eph 5:5), that it seems to have forgotten that idolatry can also reside in the mind and the teachings that shape its conceptions of God. Fallen men have turned to idols because they became “futile in their thinking” (Rom 1:21). Idolatry is formed by "the art and imagination of man" (Acts 17:29). So false construals of God should be understood as unholy, as remaining idolatry.

This was understood by prior generations. John of Damascus argued that to forget God’s simplicity and speak of His attributes as “essential differences” is “impious in the extreme” (Orthodox Faith, I.9). John Owen argued that ascribing "the least mutability" to the divine essence is "transcendent atheism, in the highest degree" (Works 10:14). Modern theologians who reject or revise doctrines like divine simplicity and immutability do not merely need to revise or rethink their positions, they need to repent of speaking of God in unholy ways.

The Christian’s need for sanctification is not only moral, it is intellectual and theological. Our thinking and speaking of God also needs to be sanctified by Him til it is worthy of Him (this is especially true for pastors who speak to form others’ conceptions of God).

This isn't turning from genuine Christianity to "intellectualism." It is remembering that we are to love the only God with all that we are (Deut 6:4-5), which certainly includes how we think and speak about Him.

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@SteveMeisterVDM I never thought about it this way, but yes!

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@KingDawah1 Did the God-man require sleep according to his human nature or according to his divine nature?

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@jrmiller777 @dgh5391 I don’t know if they are teaching current class offerings in those topics, but last I read, Fred Sanders was teaching courses in classical theology at Biola’s seminary (Talbot), and Steven Duby was teaching systematics at Phoenix.

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@jrmiller777 @dgh5391 But they are protestant and have reformed professors that teach the classical doctrine of God.

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@SteveMeisterVDM 👌

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@JustinPetersMin In case anyone is wondering, there is nothing “traditional[ly] Christian” about this.

[Patrick Abendroth @PatAbendroth]

Knowledge of reformed confessions supports conviction in expositional preaching.

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

“The doctrine of God is fundamental because every other subject studied in systematic theology is connected to the doctrine of God and understandable only in relation to it.”

- Keith Mathison

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@SteveMeisterVDM True; properly qualified.