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发帖数: 3781 | 1 Calvinism's Admitted Irrationality
Such undeniable contradictions are innate within Calvinism and have caused d
ivisions among Calvinists, who cannot agree among themselves on the fine poi
nts of TULIP.
Consider the controversy over the fitness for ordination of Gordon H. Clark.
"Cornelius Van Til led the seminary faculty in a Complaint against Clark's
understanding of the Confession of Faith." 2 In essence, Clark was accused o
f "rationalism" for his unwillingness to pretend that salvation was sincerel
y offered by God to those whom God, according to Calvinism, had consigned to
the blindness of total depravity. Clark considered it to be a direct contra
diction that God could seek the salvation of those "He has from eternity det
ermined not to save."
A similar controversy which originated among the faculty at Calvin Seminary
"had plagued the Christian Reformed Church during the 1920's ... [and in 192
4] ended with the exodus of the Calvinists from the Christian Reformed Churc
h under the leadership of Herman Hoeksema, and the formation of a new church
, the Protestant Reformed Church." 3 Van Til, in disagreement with the Westm
inster Confession, argued that Clark was making "logic rule over Scripture .
.. " Van Til insisted that Scripture contains irreconcilable paradoxes which
"have of necessity the appearance of being contradictory." 4
Attempting to escape the irrationality of blaming the non-elect for failing
to do what they can't do, some Calvinists insist that man is able but simply
not willing to turn to Christ. This is a minority view and partially correc
t. The problem with sinners is indeed unwillingness. For a person to be unwi
lling, however, he must have a will and thus by an act of that will could be
come willing. Furthermore, Calvin and his followers have declared in the cle
arest language that man is unable to believe the gospel, to turn to Christ o
r to seek God or good: "He is free to turn to Christ, but not able." 5 Inabi
lity is certainly the major view. | D******r
发帖数: 637 | 2 加尔文派对福音的篡改已经到了令人发指的地步，当年jym0237说出约翰3:16里的神爱世
人不是指爱世上所有人的时候，令我这个接触近十年基督教的人shock的不得了，现在我
再多看点改革宗的东西，又发现加尔文主义者说人类是无法接受福音的，圣经里反复强
调神要人悔改，可加尔文们说人是不可能悔改的
基督教中还有什么宗派能把福音篡改到如此的地步呢？如果400年前烧死异端是合理的行
为的话，谁更应该被烧死呢？
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【在 R*o 的大作中提到】
: Calvinism's Admitted Irrationality
: Such undeniable contradictions are innate within Calvinism and have caused d
: ivisions among Calvinists, who cannot agree among themselves on the fine poi
: nts of TULIP.
: Consider the controversy over the fitness for ordination of Gordon H. Clark.
: "Cornelius Van Til led the seminary faculty in a Complaint against Clark's
: understanding of the Confession of Faith." 2 In essence, Clark was accused o
: f "rationalism" for his unwillingness to pretend that salvation was sincerel
: y offered by God to those whom God, according to Calvinism, had consigned to
: the blindness of total depravity. Clark considered it to be a direct contra
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