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Judy:What is 'The Reformed Doctrine of Election' as
T. F. Torrance understands it (not as you understand it)?
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Sent: March 18, 2006 09:29
Subject: [TruthTalk] torrance
In his writing below about "existential decision"
Torrance confirms Calvin's doctrine of "Total Depravity" which teaches that
fallen mankind is akin to a literal corpse and unable to make a decision that
is anything but evil .. Unconditional Election follows along with Limited
Atonement. I figure his Limited Atonement would conflict violently with the
way you see the "incarnation" so possibly Torrance veers off here a
little but so far it sounds like Calvin's other points are in
place.
"But the Scots Confession laid the axe to the root of any such movement
when it insisted that we have to spoil ourselves even of our own regeneration
and sanctification as well as justification. What is "axed" so radically was
the notion of "co-redemption" which in our day has again become so rampant,
not only in the Roman Church, but in Liberal and Evangelical Protestantism,
e.g., the emphasis upon
existential decision as the means whereby we
"make real" for ourselves the kerygma [proclamation] of the New Testament,
which means that in the last resort our salvation depends upon our own
personal or existential decision.
That is the exact antithesis of the Reformed doctrine of election, which
rests salvation upon the prior and objective decision of God in Christ.
It is Justification by Grace alone that
guards the Gospel from corruption by "Evangelicals," "Liberals," and Romans
alike."
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