Tracing the Antithesis

For most believers raised in con- servative Reformed churches, the term antithesis is probably quite familiar. This is the word we use to express the dramatic separation between God’s purposes and people and those of the forces who are spiritually aligned with Satan and the world. The differences between truth and lie, good and evil, elec- tion and reprobation all belong to our doctrinal concept of the antith- esis. It is a fundamental concept for Reformed theology. Although the word antithesis...