E 'the faith of our fathers present in your life? In your church? We sing the song: "Faith of our fathers living still ... "And no doubt the faith is alive. But the question is:" Where is the living faith, and where and confessed? "E:" What is the faith of our fathers? "It was expressed over 350 years ago our fathers the Synod of Dordt (in Holland). We use the familiar acrostic TULIP to help us remember what they said about what the Bible teaches:
dead in sin?
T - Total Depravity: Total Depravity
This simply means that the is DEAD MAN . The Bible says that you and I are dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1-6) unless that we are not born again. DEAD! Moreover, man or woman who has died / a sin God hates, and his "carnal mind" is "enmity against God" (Romans 8:7). His will is hardened against God stubbornly This Biblical idea redefine a lot of modern talk about salvation.
Consider what this means:
1. Can a man do good works if it is not a born again Christian? No. "Whatever is not of faith is sin" (Romans 14:23).
2. Can a man be born again and want to follow the instructions on "how?" No, because that would be like saying that a man could want in a tomb to come out from the grave, or follow the instructions on how to be made alive. It would be like trying to call to get it out from the grave. "It 's the spirit that quickens, the flesh is of no profit" (John 6:63).
3. Any man can "accept Christ as his personal Savior, so that after he did so saved? Of course not. Accepting Christ is a good work done only by a Christian. Only AFTER that God has made a living person, she will accept and accept Christ. "No one can come to me except the Father who sent me draws him" (John 6:44).
4. You can "offer salvation" on someone? This is surely impossible. You could well offer food to a dead man if salvation can be offered to a dead sinner (Ephesians 2:1-2).
ONLY GOD CAN 'alive. GOD IS SOVEREIGN AND WITHOUT OUR HELP, BUT THAT WE ASK. From beginning to end, "Salvation belongs to the Lord" (Jonah 2:9). This is the faith which we preach, because it is Biblical, because it is the Faith of our fathers, whom we love, who still lives in our hearts, and because it gives God all the glory!
Not my choice
U - Unconditional Election: Unconditional Election
This simply means: God chooses to give some people eternal life, without trying anything good in them as a condition for loving them and save them.
Before any man or woman is born in, before the world was made, God decided who would go to heaven and who does not. Before they did anything good or bad, God chose some because they were his people, and rejected others.
"Election CONDITIONING" means that God chose as His chosen ones who love and Lu first. But the Bible says, "You did not choose me, I chose you" (John 15:16; also read Romans 9:11-21) Acts 13:48 says that "those who were ordained to eternal life believed. "When we speak so we put the horse before the cart. CONDITIONING The election puts the cart before the horse, because it says it believes the man and then he ordained to eternal life. If you read carefully John 10:26 for another step "horse before the cart." Can you imagine what it would mean the denial of this doctrine? If we keep in mind that before we are saved we can not do anything right (John 15:5, Ephesians 2:1-6), the only conclusion is that we could never choose God we would never have done. And we would never have been saved.
But God is sovereign and chooses whom He will. And after that we choose, we choose Him daily. Everything who we are and everything that we have is given us by God
Again, this is the faith that we preach, because it is Biblical, because it is the faith of our fathers, who still lives in our hearts, and because it gives God all the glory !
To All Men?
L - Limited Atonement: Limited Atonement
The great message of the gospel that so many today are bringing in distant countries is the atonement that Christ accomplished by His death. But there are such serious distortions in some critical points of this message to make this post something else, and not the message of the gospel.
The first distortion realized what concerns the death of Christ. The Biblical truth Atonement is that His death paid for sins. However, today there are so many to teach that Christ's death was only an example for us to follow, and if one merely follows his example will be saved. Or is it taught that Christ's death really did not pay for any special sin, but made it possible for all our sins are paid.
But the Bible says that Christ's death on the cross actually paid for sins. Acts 20:28 says that God bought the church with His own blood. See also Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 7:26-27.
SECOND DISTORTION of this biblical truth is that Christ died for all men. Some teach that Christ made salvation possible for all men. But the questions we need to ask are: "If Christ died for all men, because not all men are saved?" "God can not do what he wants?" "There is something defective in the death of Christ?" "Man must first want to be saved?" But a man who is totally depraved may not want to be saved. He hates God and wants nothing to do with the death of Christ. So there has to be said that Christ died for all men.
The Bible says that Christ laid down His life for His sheep, and only for them (John 10:11). Atonement LIMITED is the elect of God, every sin of every sheep of Christ shall be paid. Those sins, and those only have been paid. This is the only gospel because that is the gospel of the Bible.
Dragged Kicking and Screaming into Heaven?
I - Irresistible Grace: Irresistible Grace
The fourth Biblical truth in the five points of Calvinism teaches that God's grace in saving a person can not be resisted. Grace is the free and undeserved power of God to save a person from his sins, which otherwise would lead to hell. The grace to heaven who by nature would end up in hell.
This grace is irresistible. This means that if God gives you grace, there is nothing in the world that you can do to resist and frustrate the intention of God to take you to heaven. The certainty of salvation for the elect of God is evident in John 6:37 where Jesus says: "All that the Father has given me will come to me ..." There is no doubt that they will be saved. Verse 44 says that those who come to God is because God draws them. Not our will, but God comes first, and it is powerful.
Now, some ridicule this truth of the Bible and say that the man does go to heaven against his will. "He kicks and screams along the path that led him to heaven. "But this is not the way the Bible presents God's grace God makes His people" willing in the day of His power "(Psalm 110:3) [N. d. T . to consult the King James Version and New American Standard Bible versions, the only two versions that Italian correctly translate this verse]. For a wonderful illustration of this truth, consider only the Apostle Paul. "By the grace of God" was what he was ( I Corinthians 15:10). And immediately after his conversion he willingly said, "Lord, what do you want me to do?" Acts 9:6. Surely he did against his will.
God's grace is sweet and irresistible. He makes us love and we do not want anything else. He is irresistible to us as a husband for his newly married bride.
Live Like the Devil?
P - Preservation of the Saints: Preservation of the Saints
The last of the five points of Calvinism teaches that God preserves His people so that they can never get lost. Or more simply means this: "Once saved, always saved."
The Word of God is full of evidence of this beautiful truth. And even though many deny it, and say that you can miss and saved many, many times, and then you can never be sure of your salvation, the Bible says otherwise. Speaking of His elect sheep, Jesus says: "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and none shall snatch them out of my hand" (John 20:28). See also John 6:39, 17:2, 11-12, Romans 8:37-39, II Timothy 1:12, 4:18, etc.. etc..
Some object to this doctrine because it is supposed to make men "carnally confident" in their salvation. That is, if I do not know that there is something that I can go to hell when God saved me, I'll live "like the devil." There have been some who have used this beautiful truth as an excuse to live like the devil. But they are not Christians. Nor did they understand this truth. Why is this truth implies also the "perseverance of the saints." Those who will never lose the salvation they are holy. And they are given the power to live holy lives. They "continue in good works." Anyone who says we can "live like the devil" has not experienced the saving power of Christ and not know the meaning of Philippians 1:6: "He who began a good work in you will carry until the day of Christ Jesus" God will continue to do our good works until Christ returns. We should not think otherwise.
There is some hope for the Christian doctrine without this? We do not need to be "alarmed at the sky." We need comfort. Why we know that if it was saved by Cristiano to stay, he would never be able to do so. Who knows you knows that there is no power in him beyond the grace of God
Author: Barry Gritters . To learn more about this topic, read the pamphlet: "Calvinism ... Truth."
