Neo Calvinism vs. The Bible; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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We're embarking on a new series this is not a book study. This is a topic uh study and the title of this is what I would call Neo-Calvinism versus the Bible.

A lot of people wanting to go back to the teachings of John Calvin today who was an interesting person. He brought some good and he brought some bad um he lived from 1509 to 1564 and you know we're going to be going into all of this but as the as the study unfolds but there is a movement today that I call Neo-Calvinism and they're very aggressive and it's my conclusion that a lot of the things they say are not directly supported by the Bible and so that's sort of what this series is about and don't worry I'm going to have a lot of opportunity to back up that statement.

I'm just giving you a taste of what's coming so here is a six-part outline that we're going to use as we go through this teaching together this will go several weeks.

Numeral 1 that we'll talk about today called Calvinism's mixed blessing there's some good things that come out of Calvinism I'll try to show you show.

Numeral 2 is why would we get into this why critique Neo- Calvinism and so we're going to spend some time talking about that.

Numeral 3 we're going to get into the subject of the source of Calvin's theology so a lot of people kind of look at John Calvin as somebody that was just a guy that exceed the scripture and he did that in certain instances. but people that think that really don't understand where Calvin drew his ideas from. He drew them from a source called Augustine who lived over a century ago, a thousand years earlier than Calvin. and so Augustine his beliefs are kind of a mixed bag. So you'll see once you study Augustine you'll see he was very mixed, a lot of the things he said were a little bit were off and that's why Calvin carried over a lot of things from4 Augustine into reformed churches today. So you'll you'll still see a lot of that fuzzy teaching in reformed churches today.

Numeral 4 we're going to get into Calvin's manner of life, I mean what kind of person was this that everybody's following John Calvin. Did he lived some kind of completely sanctified life? Hardly as I'll show you

Numeral 5 is where we're going to spend the bulk of the series going through the Calvinistic theology known through the anacronym T.U.L.I.P. It's a logically arranged theology and as you'll see some of it is biblical some of it is not. As I'll show you T.U.L.I.P stands for Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace and the Perseverance of the Saints. Then so we're going to spend a lot of time going through each of those letters you know "here's what the Neo- Calvinists are saying and here's what the Bible says.

Numeral 6 assuming the Rapture doesn't happen first and we'll get to a conclusion that Neo-Calvinism is a philosophy >>read into the Bible<< it's not a theology >>derived from the Bible<<. It's a man made philosophy read back into the Bible

So that's sort of the direction that we're moving in I hope you're interested in this. At some point in someone's life they get hit with Calvinism by somebody. You hear so much about Calvin and Calvinism we have all of these young people that are converting to Calvinism they're called the Young reformed and restless.

You know it's almost like a test of fellowship with certain Christians to see if you stand on Calvinism, first thing they want to know about and so since there's all this noise made about it we want to you know do some examination of it so that's sort of the direction that we're moving in.

01. Second Thessalonians 3:14–15

Andy Woods

02. Second Peter 1:19

03. Revelation 20:1-10

04. Zechariah 2:8

05. Romans 11:17-18

06. Matthew 28:19

07. Ephesians 1:10

08. Matthew 7:16-18

09. Matthew 7:16-18

10. Matthew 7:16-18

11 - Galatians 5:22

12. Jeremiah 17:9

13 - Genesis 8:21

15. Genesis 3:22

16. Ephesians 2:1-5

17 - Acts 17:27

18. John 5:40

19. Isaiah 55:8-9

20. Acts 17:30

21. Acts 13:48

22. Deuteronomy 7:7-8

23- Exodus 4:21

24. John 1:29

25. 1 John 2:2

26. Romans 4:4-5

27. Rom. 4:4-5