"Hall of Contemporary Reformers"
This is the title of a section on monergism.com's web site. What does one have to do to get in this "Hall" of "Reformed" fame? Apparently, one has to be a Hyper Calvinist and accept the proposition that the new birth occurs and is completed before and apart from faith. Well, I don't ever expect to be "voted into" that "Hall."
Who is on the list? Here are the names on the list.
"John Piper, R. C. Sproul, James White, Tim Keller, Sinclair Ferguson, John MacArthur, Al Mohler, C. J. Mahaney, Michael Horton, D. A. Carson, Mark Dever, John Frame, James M. Boice, J. Ligon Duncan III, Iain H. Murray, J. L. Packer, Arturo Azurdia III."
Now, I am sure that there are some on this list who may deny that they should ever be included. But, nevertheless, Hendryx thinks they "qualify."
Sad, however, that names like Calvin, Spurgeon, Edwards, Booth, etc., cannot be put on the list! Cannot become members of this great "Hall" of Reformed fame!
http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/bio/contempreform.html
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CALVINISM - preachers preach it, authors write of it, seminary students discuss it, and theologians pass it on to others. By all appearances, Calvinism, or its more popular name, the "Doctrines of Grace," looks and sounds biblical to many. . .but is it? Writing to the church at Ephesus, Paul told Timothy to "…charge some that they teach no other doctrine…which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do" (1 Tim. 1:3, 4). Is Calvinism a doctrine of Scripture, or a philosophical argument that ministers questions to believers and unbelievers alike, rather than godly edifying? In the preface of his book Subjects of Sovereignty, Andrew Telford, former pastor of Berachah Church of Philadelphia, wrote, "It is dangerous for God to give high truth to highly educated people. There is a danger that in the furtherance of that truth it becomes mixed with an alloy of human reason.
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Dear KMS:
The "Calvinism" that I believe the bible teaches answers far more questions than it raises, in my view. Arminianism raises more questions than it answers.
God bless and thanks for visiting.
Stephen
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