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what does it mean in The Canons of Dort article 17?
From What does Calvinism teach about infant death? Do newborn babies go to heaven when they die because they haven't committed sins yet, or do they go to hell because they, like everyone else, have a ...
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Are the weaknesses in man intended by God? What are those weaknesses? Are they sinful?
In the scriptures, it says in Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope.
I also remember Paul saying in 2 Corin. 12:9 that:
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Christ 'made' sin - the Reformed, Protestant view?
Following on from both of the two recent questions regarding the inheritance or transmission of 'original' or 'inbred' sin, from generation to generation, I am interested in the Trinitarian, ...
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What is the difference in original sin and our nature to sin from a Reformed or Calvinist view?
There is another question like this on the CSE but seems to be answered with the Catholic view in mind. As a Calvinist, I have become quite confused or I am just not properly understanding the ...
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What is an overview of the similarities and differences between the Catholic doctrine of Original Sin and the Reformed doctrine of Total Depravity?
Upon a cursory examination, both the Catholic doctrine of Original Sin and the Reformed doctrine of Total Depravity seem to say that mankind is by default separated from God.
What is an overview of ...
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How is the election of Adam and Eve according to the Calvinist?
The Westminster Confession :
3.1 "God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to
pass; yet so, as thereby ...
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For those who deny the Immaculate Conception, why did Jesus not have original sin?
The Westminster Confession (8:2) says Jesus is of the substance of Mary:
The Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father, ...
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If Christ had a complete human nature, how come his human nature wasn't totally depraved as ours is?
I understand the reformed doctrine of total depravity to be that the human nature is such that it is utterly unable to choose to follow God. Another way I've heard it put is that men are by nature ...
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According to Calvinists, is each person "dead in sin" at birth, or only after committing a sin?
First I thought that there is no difference between OS (Original Sin) and TD (Total Depravity) in the Calvinist pov.
This is what I first thought : (OS = TD)
Cain/Abel/Seth (and their next ...
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According to Reformed theology, what is an infant's first sin?
From what I understand, every human that has ever lived is "born into sin", which means we all carry a "sin nature". Saul says:
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23
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Were Luther and Calvin Aphthartodocetists?
Julian of Halicarnassus (d. 527) was condemned at a council in Constantinople in 536. In denying a distinction between ousia (common essence) and physis (particular nature), Julian was faced with the ...
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According to Reformed Theology how can God judge us if we are born sinful?
This question was asked by my Atheist friend who was raised Jewish. His point was basically that if we are all inherently sinners (Rom.3:23) than how can God hold us accountable for something we ...
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Orthodoxy's "ancestral sin" versus Calvinism's "total depravity"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, one of the major differences between Eastern Orthodox and Protestant theology is "ancestral sin."
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Although Roman Catholicism's definition ...
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