Posted on 10/21/2023 10:00:33 PM PDT by Morgana
Anyone acting surprised that Calvin University has caved to the cultural prostitutes of LGBTQ activism hasn’t actually been following the news. For years, Calvin University has been in liberal decline as it has increasingly embraced facets of the LGBTQ movement through its student and faculty programs.
As a Christian university named after arguably the most famous Protestant reformer in the Reformed Tradition, John Calvin, it has become an icon for liberalism. Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is associated with the Christian Reformed Church denomination which has its roots in the Netherlands and is largely influenced by the early twentieth-century theologian, Abraham Kuyper.
Today, The Christian Reformed Church is a full-fledged liberal denomination that boasts inclusivity and progressivism throughout its layers of organizational structure, including at Calvin U.
In a recent speech at Calvin University, Rep. Hillary Scholten, a member of the Christian Reformed Church, defended legal abortion by arguing that criminalizing the practice would violate the 1st Amendment and that it would require a consensus on what scripture says about exactly where life begins.
This assertion is not only morally bankrupt but also reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the Constitution. The First Amendment protects our right to free speech and the free exercise of religion, not the right to kill unborn children. And to suggest that Christians cannot come to a consensus on this issue is disingenuous and insulting.
Scholten also defended her vote against The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, claiming that it was not designed to change the law but to send a message. This statement is not only false but also callous. The bill was designed to protect babies who survive abortions from being left to die, and it is unconscionable that anyone, let alone an elected representative who claims to be a Christian, would vote against such a measure.
Scholten’s justification for her vote is equally troubling. She claimed that the bill would take away the choice of palliative care for mothers who had had a pre-term birth and who wanted to hold their infant. While this scenario is certainly heartbreaking, it is not relevant to the bill at hand which was focused solely on protecting infants who survive abortions.
Scholten’s comments during the Q&A session were even more concerning. When asked who should be allowed to make the difficult choice of whether or not to have an abortion, she argued that it should be the woman and her doctor, rather than the federal government. This callous and selfish argument ignores the fact that there is another human being involved in the decision: the unborn child. To suggest that this decision should be left solely to the woman and her doctor is to ignore the rights of the unborn and to endorse a culture of death.
Scholten’s response to a question about the majority of abortions not fitting into the exceptions category was evasive at best. Rather than addressing the fact that the majority of abortions are performed for reasons that have nothing to do with rape, incest, or the life of the mother, she simply repeated the tired talking point that women are being forced to go into septic shock before they get life-saving care.
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I don't know anything about the reformed church, who here knows anything about it and if it's true?
Anti-Christs are emerging everywhere. All prophesied.
“All prophesied”
I think the horsemen are riding.
A wild time to be alive.... don’t hide your light now ..it’s time to shine.
Jesus is Lord.
The mainline Presbyterian Church parted ways in the 1970’s ……with one faction becoming the Presbyterian Church, USA ( liberal, apostate)
…and the other becoming Presbyterian Church in America..(Calvinist, Reformed)
I belong to the latter…….and have for 35 years
We hold to the inerrancy of the Word…..and we do not ordain women as pastors
The Christian Reformed Church used to be very conservative, including being quite hyper-Calvinistic.
No women pastors, or any women in leadership positions.
The doctrine espoused at the highest levels of the leadership is so unBiblical that there has been quite a number of congregations leaving to form a new denomination/association.
It was once part of the Dutch Reformed Church which came up with TULIP. Look it up.
It was also the denomination that started the work on the NIV version of the Bible and realized it was such a huge project it turned their early work on it over to the New York Bible Society, and continued to be headed up by Edwin Palmer. For that, the Christian world has been blessed.
Sadly, the CRC taught TULIP, including double predestination, which is a heresy. Basically,it means that God chose those who would be saved from the beginning of time and also those who would be saved from the beginning of time; and there was nothing a person could do to change that destination.
Ironically, one of Charles Spurgeons greatest sermons put to rest that whole notion of double predestination in his sermon #1516. It’s really an easy read, but hyper-Calvinists don’t like to point that sermon out because Spugeon is a Calvinistic icon.
Thr CRC congregations leaving the CRC don’t have problems and issues over who owns the real estate since it belongs to the local congregations, and not the Denomination; quite a difference from the United Methodist Church.
One should not “Have Fun”, “but to have Joy”.
On of the big reasons for the downfall of many formerly Christian Reformed Churches is that graduates of Seminaries could avoid the draft by becoming a pastor. Got to the point where it became a career. Helps explain why there have been big problems with many Church hierarchies.
Your opinion is your opinion……
….but some of your assertions leave much to be desired.
You seem to have a problem with ‘unconditional election’
I have a serious problem with “Double Predestination”. That is a major problem with hyper-Calvinists.
You would do well to read this Charles Spurgeon sermon.
http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/1516.htm
I didn’t read your link, but I love Charles Spurgeon….
…I just don’t get why you think it is ‘double predestination’…..?
Predestined is predestined
Hyper-Calvinists call it double predestination because of their mistaken belief that God predestined some to eternal life and all others to eternal damnation. Everyone is predestined to one or the other; at least in their opinion.
Interestingly, is that if what they claim is true, why did Jesus need to come to Earth, and be crucified, for the salvation of those predestination to eternal life?
You really need to read the Spurgeon sermon. I assume you don’t want to because you will not be able to logically dispute his obvious Biblical analysis. When I direct hyper-Calvinists to this sermon, I never hear from them again.
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