[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ".
Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post ""The Death of Death in the Death of Christ"":
Mark Vance a little while back encouraged me to read the Canons of Dort. Interestingly, it sounds a lot like four point Calvinism. I just don't see the exegetical necessity, the systematic necessity, or the practical advantages of espousing the fifth point. Perhaps you can fill me in on where you stand on the issue?
Article 3: The Infinite Value of Christ's Death
This death of God's Son is the only and entirely complete sacrifice and satisfaction for sins; it is of infinite value and worth, more than sufficient to atone for the sins of the whole world.
Article 8: The Saving Effectiveness of Christ's Death
For it was the entirely free plan and very gracious will and intention of God the Father that the enlivening and saving effectiveness of his Son's costly death should work itself out in all his chosen ones, in order that he might grant justifying faith to them only and thereby lead them without fail to salvation. In other words, it was God's will that Christ through the blood of the cross (by which he confirmed the new covenant) should effectively redeem from every people, tribe, nation, and language all those and only those who were chosen from eternity to salvation and given to him by the Father; that he should grant them faith (which, like the Holy Spirit's other saving gifts, he acquired for them by his death); that he should cleanse them by his blood from all their sins, both original and actual, whether committed before or after their coming to faith; that he should faithfully preserve them to the very end; and that he should finally present them to himself, a glorious people, without spot or wrinkle.
I can't disagree with these.
Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 6:17 PM
Mark Vance a little while back encouraged me to read the Canons of Dort. Interestingly, it sounds a lot like four point Calvinism. I just don't see the exegetical necessity, the systematic necessity, or the practical advantages of espousing the fifth point. Perhaps you can fill me in on where you stand on the issue?
Article 3: The Infinite Value of Christ's Death
This death of God's Son is the only and entirely complete sacrifice and satisfaction for sins; it is of infinite value and worth, more than sufficient to atone for the sins of the whole world.
Article 8: The Saving Effectiveness of Christ's Death
For it was the entirely free plan and very gracious will and intention of God the Father that the enlivening and saving effectiveness of his Son's costly death should work itself out in all his chosen ones, in order that he might grant justifying faith to them only and thereby lead them without fail to salvation. In other words, it was God's will that Christ through the blood of the cross (by which he confirmed the new covenant) should effectively redeem from every people, tribe, nation, and language all those and only those who were chosen from eternity to salvation and given to him by the Father; that he should grant them faith (which, like the Holy Spirit's other saving gifts, he acquired for them by his death); that he should cleanse them by his blood from all their sins, both original and actual, whether committed before or after their coming to faith; that he should faithfully preserve them to the very end; and that he should finally present them to himself, a glorious people, without spot or wrinkle.
I can't disagree with these.
Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 6:17 PM
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