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There is a wide difference between the two. Let us explain. Those who hold to conditional theology refuse to admit the difference. They always add as an appendage to their conditions, Yes, but they are fulfilled by the grace of God. And that is supposed to eliminate any difference. It should strike
In this conditional theology that speaks of a promise to all upon condition of faith they clearly conflict with the Three Forms of Unity. Thus they are heretics. Secondly, because in this conditional theology they subscribe to the doctrine of the Three Points of 1924. It is especially the First Poin
As you know, those who hold to conditional theology speak at one time or another of just about all the good works of a person to be conditions to something else. They speak, for example, of prayer as a condition to the experience of the forgiveness of sins. They speak of the works of the law as a co
And that is what conditional theology does. It separates the act of faith from the essential character of faith. Of course, it has to do this if faith is going to be a condition to salvation. Principally all of salvation is bestowed upon our hearts in regeneration. And faith is only a part of that m
But a conditional theology, one that insists that there is a prerequisite that we have to fulfill before God will choose us and save and give us that which Christ earned, makes God dependent upon man. God is going to take a back seat. 0, He loves everybody in the world and wants to save them all, an
Conditional theology! Christless sermons! Conditional theology! Christless sermons! These go hand in hand. Hand in hand they must go. For conditional theology wants us to believe that there are works of men that precede the works of God and for which God waits, either before saving us or before
April 2010 75 Doctrine of the Covenant in the Theology of John Calvin own work of covenant salvation, as the promise of Jeremiah 31:33 makes plain: “I will put my law in their inward parts,” and as Au- gustine taught us long ago: “O God, give what Thou demandest, and demand what Thou wilt.” In the
Just as Arminianism teaches that the salvation of the sinner depends upon a condition he must fulfill, namely, faith, so the doctrine of a conditional covenant teaches that the salvation of baptized children depends upon conditions he must fulfill, namely, faith and a life of faithfulness.
Again, this is not to deny that God makes demands of His covenant people. He surely does. Though the Canons say little about this, the Heidelberg Catechism introduces the law with the question "Q. 4. What doth the law of God require of us?" And in the exposition of the Ten Commandments, Lord's Day a
Others now begin to say the same. Dr. Jelle Faber, in the recent book, American Secession Theologians on Covenant and Baptism & Extra-Scriptural Binding -- A New Danger (Inheritance, 1996), admits that the conditional covenant of the Canadian Reformed Churches and the Reformed Churches in the Nethe