Covenant Reformed News – September 2010 • Volume XIII, Issue 5
This article defends the Reformed doctrine of sovereign reprobation against critics who advocate for a well-meant gospel offer, arguing that the two positions are incompatible. The author grounds the discussion in classical Reformed sources including Luther, Calvin, and the Canons of Dort, addressing the tension between God's sovereign decree and human accountability for sin. The piece represents a strong polemical stance characteristic of strict Calvinist theology on the question of reprobation and evangelism.
Reprobation and God’s Good Pleasure (2) Those who teach a gracious and well-meant gospel offer do not want sovereign reprobation. The curious defence of the defenders of a well-meant offer is not a pious defence of the gospel, nor are these defenders interested in true evangelism; their vendetta is against the doctrine of reprobation. They do not want a sovereign God who accomplishes all his good pleasure in the salvation of the elect and also in the damnation of the reprobate. They are...