G'day Burt, Here are some of the comments from Calvin which I have posted at the C&C blog along with a brief bio: Calvin’s esteem of Musculus: LETTER 191 TO WOLFGANG MUSCULUS ANXIETY REGARDING THE CHURCHES OF GERMANY — ADVICE TO MUSCULUS. GENEVA, 21st April 1547. …Adieu, most upright brother, an...

Canuck BC: But does that really change the meaning of love when talking about God's love? David: Well thats a really big debate, the nature of analogical, equivocal and univocal predication and language in reference to God and man. We must say that God truly hates sin and truly loves righteousness. ...

Musculus: For like as the nature of naughtiness is such that the proper quality thereof is to hate all things, and to be maliciously disposed towards all men, so the nature of goodness is contrariwise, so that it is the properly thereof to love, and to be kindly disposed towards all. Canuck BC Why d...

Hey Burt and others, Its good to see the discussion up and running again on this thread. Burt says: "This text deals with the love of God for the world, ie. the cosmos, in the first place." And: "In other words, God so loved His creation" There are a couple of points here that ca...

Hey Bert,

Can you translate the emphasised words? This is the English forum. :-)

David

Years ago I read VanderKemp on the Heidelberg Catechism. Can anyone tell me where he stood in the Dutch Reformed tradition? From my files I found these, which are some of the best. Nor ye neither, who with “Herod do many things,” Mark 6:20, and the Jews “have a zeal for God,” Roms 10:2. But are thes...

(and this is my last post on this thread) I do not see how you can reconcile Ursinus and Calvin with the WMO. G'day Bert, Thanks for this, I appreciate it. Your question tho, can be taken in two ways at least. Do I consider Calvin and Ursinus's position contradictory to the WMO? Or: Did Calvin and ...

But if that’s true, you should explain me why you asked me before: “So you want to say that God brings a well-meant offer to those, whom He from all eternity has reprobated? That God is eager to save someone, whom He in His eternal counsel has reprobated? So God speaks against Himself?” And also, t...

4. As such, this discussion is not edifying. I will not contribute to this and ask the moderators to end this travesty. Hey Bert, Dont ask the moderators to close down my thread. I can understand them closing down your thread--even tho it appeared to me to be public. I still cant see how you can re...

I had asked:. That is Calvin's point. Do you believe in a conditional promise and conditional offer to all who in the gopsel message? Bert answers: If that is how you want to term it, fine. The Gospel comes effectually only to the elect. I am not sure how that answers me. I am would really like to k...

No, Mr. David Ponter, you are misrepresenting the doctrine of the PRCA here, and making a caricature out of it. You know better! To use your analogy: the Doctor indeed calls everyone that is sick to come to him, and be healed, and that for free. But the issue is that only those that know they are s...

No, Mr. David Ponter, you are misrepresenting the doctrine of the PRCA here, and making a caricature out of it. You know better! To use your analogy: the Doctor indeed calls everyone that is sick to come to him, and be healed, and that for free. But the issue is that only those that know they are s...

David, dr. Steenblok teached that the conditions to offer (not to enjoy, like Calvin) grace are repentance and faith. In this chronologic order: first repentance, then faith. We call it here de standenleer. First stand is: to be convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit and to no yet nothing of the Savio...

Do you realize Mr. David Ponter, that you just stated here that the offer is a general conditional offer of salvation to all who hear? Do you mean that in the same sense as the Reformed Congregations of America (the Gereformeerde Gemeenten in Nederland) (ie. the Dr. Steenblok churches)? Ben je erva...

G'day Bert, I feel we are dancing around this. You are motivating me to pull out my files tho. This is an old one. Calvin says it all here. Can you tell me what would be the problem? Calvin on conditional willing and conditional promises. 1) Yet Pighius denies it, because the preconceived counsel co...