Covenant Reformed News – January 2010 • Volume XII, Issue 21
This article from Covenant Reformed News critiques the doctrine of common grace by systematically examining eight propositions held by its advocates, arguing they contradict biblical teaching on God's sovereignty, total depravity, and the antithesis between believers and unbelievers. The author plans a multi-part series examining the foundational claims of common grace theology against Reformed biblical interpretation.
The Psalms Versus Common Grace (1) Common grace is, according to its theorists, a grace of God that is common: a grace of God for everybody, head for head, bar none, including the reprobate, those not elected nor redeemed nor effectually called in Jesus Christ. The advocates of common grace claim that God has grace, love and mercy for the reprobate, those whom God has eternally decreed not to save but to punish in the way of their sins. There are many different doctrines of common grace, but...