Reformed Christianity studies the logical order of God's decree to ordain the fall of man in relation to his decree to save some sinners through election...

Zwinglian view. There are two schools of thought regarding the logical order of God's decree to ordain the fall of man: supralapsarianism (from the Latin:...

be redeemed from their sin. Lapsarianism, understanding the logical order of God's decrees in relation to the Fall, is divided into two categories: supralapsarian...

organisation (or "church order") and worship, often using a "Book of Order" to regulate common practice and order. The origins of the Presbyterian churches...

Arminian doctrine of conditional election in which God's eternal choice to save a person is conditioned on God's certain foreknowledge of future events,...

covenant of grace, by which those selected by God could be saved. Puritans believed in unconditional election and irresistible grace—God's grace was...

in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty...

Acts, Decisions, Decrees, and Canons of those Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France by John Quick. Volume 1 of 2. (1692, 693 pdfs)...

passive nature of that foreordination. This is possible because most Calvinists hold to an infralapsarian view of God's decree. In that view, God, before Creation...

sola gratia (Latin ablative, sōlā grātiā, meaning "by grace alone" or by God's favor). The adjective (sola) and the noun (scriptura) are in the ablative...

Reborn in Christ Church Snowball Church Universal Church of the Kingdom of God World Church of God's Power The Convergence Movement originated from "The Chicago...

promise of gracious restoration for unregenerate Israel. God's covenantal relationship with God's creation is not made automatically or out of necessity...

emphasis of the lecture was on God's absolute sovereignty in the work of salvation: while it behooved God to create man pure and without sin, it was of his...

mandate to be involved in appreciating creation and order within it, and aiding it to bring about God's glory. This means there is no division between that...

brother who is instructed in God’s law, we do not disapprove; just as we also fully approve of that general and public confession of sins which is usually said...

speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much...

on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2020. Nicolson, Adam. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (HarperCollins, 2003) "Geneva Bible |...

confession states that from eternity God did "freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass". By God's decree, "some men and angels are predestinated...

followers moved to Holland in order to worship freely. While in Holland, Browne wrote treatises that laid out the essential features of Congregationalism. Browne...

teaches that the saving grace of God is effectually applied to those whom he has determined to save (the elect) and, in God's timing, overcomes their resistance...

denominations of United Baptists teach a Reformed soteriology. Sovereign Grace Baptists in the broadest sense are any "Calvinistic" Baptists that accept God's sovereign...

Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-52021930-4 – via Google books. Goldman, Samuel (2018-02-20). God's Country:...

the formation of Brattle Street Church spurred Congregationalists to modify their polity and strengthen the role of associations in order to promote greater...

God's grace. John Calvin was influenced by Martin Luther's idea of baptism as God's promises to the baptized person attached to the outward sign of washing...

absolute decree is to make some part of God more final and definitive than God's saving act in Jesus Christ. God's absolute decree, if one may speak of such...

differentiate between God's covenant with Israel and the New Covenant. He stated, "all the children of the promise, reborn of God, who have obeyed the...

of the Holy Spirit, providing someone with "a new awareness of the beauty of Christ, new desires to love God, and a firm commitment to follow God's holy...

profoundly reflects God, believing that humanity not only contains God's image, but personally and uniquely is God's image: The essence of human nature is...

upon the divine author of Scripture. He therefore preached and believed the doctrine of sola scriptura — that the Bible is God's inspired word and is sufficient...

true knowledge of God". Charles Hodge also rejected the traditional notion of divine impassibility, rejecting traditional notions that God's love is not...