You know, I have read some idiodic posts on the RF on various opinions of the "Reformed" theology from an "Orthodox" perspective before, and I have to admit that this takes first prize. Congrats!
“You know, I have read some idiodic posts on the RF on various opinions of the “Reformed” theology from an “Orthodox” perspective before, and I have to admit that this takes first prize. Congrats!”
bb, you should know that the comments posted by Mark, although he is not Orthodox, outline pretty much the way 350,000,000 Orthodox Christians view Reformed theology and I don’t mean just the old grandmas in kerchiefs. I mean virtually all of us, including our theologians.
You know, that you folks would endow your god with the attributes of the “gods” my distant ancestors worshiped is an irony beyond compare. Once a friend, a convert to Orthodoxy, asked his godfather why we Greeks kept so many statues of the old “gods” around. The old man twisted his mustache and told him with a smile that we kept them around to remind us of what Christ had saved us from!
You know, I have read some idiodic posts on the RF on various opinions of the "Reformed" theology from an "Orthodox" perspective before, and I have to admit that this takes first prize. Congrats!
Thank you for the kudos. Let us examine why I would say that, shall we? http://www.reformationtheology.com/2007/12/images_of_the_savior_48_his_cr.php says that:
Furthermore, the absoluteness of God’s justice, the uncompromisable purity of his holiness, the infinite weight of his wrath against sin, are all things which we never glimpse so emphatically as we do when we gaze at the Son of God suffering under the curse of God, bearing God’s wrath as he hangs upon a tree. How unflinching is God’s justice, how vast his hatred of all which is opposed to his holy nature that, because of sin, he was pleased to crush his only spotless Son (Isaiah 53:10), whom he loved with all the love of an infinite Being who is very love! God’s justice must be infinite; because to satisfy it, he required an infinite sacrifice, even Jesus Christ, infinite in his being, purity, and holiness. God’s wrath must be eternal; because to exhaust it took the death of One who is very Life, eternal and unchangeable in his Person. Oh how great is the display of God in his holiness, purity, love of right and hatred of wrong, faithfulness to carry out the demands of his immutable law – how great is the display of who God is on the cross of Calvary!
Note the wording: suffering, wrath, crush, justice, sacrifice, more wrath and more hatred. This is not Christianity. Let us turn to the WCF for further illumination:
Chapter 3:
6. As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only. 7. The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by; and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Note the wording here: God is pleased to create men specifically for dishonor and wrath. In other words, He created them specifically to send them to hellfire forever. That is not Christian; that is pagan.
Chapter 6:
6. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.
Wrath, transgression, guilt, curse, death.
Chapter 8:
1. It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man, the Prophet, Priest, and King, the Head and Savior of his church, the Heir of all things, and Judge of the world: unto whom he did from all eternity give a people, to be his seed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.
Sounds like God created another god, to which He gave Jesus all things which includes all the men that were created explicitly for damnation - more evidence that the Reformed God is a pagan bloodthirsty Dagon.
Chapter 33:
3. As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin; and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity: so will he have that day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come; and may be ever prepared to say, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly, Amen.
The whole WCF up until now has told us that the reprobate cannot avoid sin and cannot be saved. Why this little idiotic phrase: to deter men from their sins? More cruel japes to which the Reformed God subjects his creation? You MUST read up on the Greek gods and their cruel shenanigans.