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Rev. Woudenberg is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:9 Anyone who lived through the Protestant Reformed/Liberated contro
By concomitant is meant something which exists alongside of something else, with or without any causal connection. Wind is a concomitant of an electric storm. Reproach is a concomitant of confessing Christ in the world. However, also this is not the meaning of the term "condition" as we are discussi
This tenth article in the series 'As to Conditions' was written by Herman Hoeksema in the May 15, 1950 issue of the Standard Bearer. ____________ Before I proceed with my discussion of condition, I want to call the attention of our readers to something I wrote almost twenty years ago, and in which
We must agree, therefore, that the term condition also in theological and dogmatical parlance certainly means a requisite, or prerequisite, in order that something else may take effect. When, for instance, we say that God promises us salvation on condition that we believe, the meaning can only be
Returning to the point of the current editorial and applying this to the doctrine of the covenant, there is no place for conditions for man to perform in a Reformed theology of the covenant. Is man (also the baptized child) responsible? Absolutely, but not for what only God does, and can do. He is c
By Martyn McGeown. Previous article in the series: Our Rejection of Conditions (4): Herman Hoeksema, late 1940s and early 1950s (Part 2) ____________ In an earlier blog post I wrote that at its most basic a condition reflects a relationship of necessity between two or more things. In English we of
“There simply is no room for anything that man must fulfill before he can attain to salvation” (Herman Hoeksema, “As to Conditions,” Standard Bearer, vol. 26, issue 6 [Dec 15, 1949], 126). “Faith can in no wise be presented as a condition which in some way must be fulfilled by man, and is, therefor
Answer: That all depends what you mean by condition. If you mean by condition, condition in distinction from state, the word condition is perfectly in order any time. I can speak of the condition of my heart, as I can speak of the condition of my body. But when I say, use the term condition as a pre
It is striking that, although the Protestant Reformed Churches in their history have always rejected the theology of conditions, a precise definition of “condition” in Protestant Reformed literature is difficult to find. One could search through the many volumes of the Standard Bearer, but that woul
Conditions In Salvation