Final ID Flashcards
“For Christ frees us, not only from guilt (reatu), but also from corruption (pravitate). For as a double evil (duplex malum) befell us from Adam, even our guilt (reatus) for the sin committed in him, and the corruption (depravatio) of our nature propagated (propagata) from him unto us: so by Christ, the other Adam, a double grace has befallen us: even imputation of righteousness and regeneration.”
Zacharias Ursinus wrote Sum of the Christian Religion
Taught at Heidelberg University.
He is one of the principal authors of the Heidelberg Catechism.
Sum of the Christian Religion was published in English a year after his death in 1584.
“The parts [of original sin] are two: original guilt (reatus originalis), and original naughtiness (pravitas originalis). Original guilt (reatus) is a natural [fault] (culpa), & subjection to punishment (poenam), because of the fall of our first parents. Rom. 5. 12. So death went over all men. Original naughtiness (pravitas) is a natural depravity (depravatio) and corruption (corruptio) of man’s whole nature.”
Amandus Polanus
From The Substance of the Christian Religion
Published in 1591.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 5
“The condition wherein man was created was morally good and upright; the state wherein he was placed, outwardly happy and blessed; the law given unto him, just and equal; the reward proposed unto him, glorious and sure; and his defection from this condition, voluntary . . . The execution of a righteous sentence, upon the voluntary transgression of a law just and equal, hath no unrighteousness in it. And this was the sum of what God did in this matter, as to the misery that came on mankind”
John Owen in his commentary called Hebrews
“15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] of it you shall surely die.””
Gen 2
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[b] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.”
Gen 3
Foedus
Latin meaning Federal or Covenant. It is used in reference to Federal Theology. More specifically, this refers to the respective headships of Adam and Christ.
“Adam, implicating us in his ruin, destroyed us with himself. But Christ restores us to salvation by his grace.”
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2
“God will have his justice satisfied. Wherefore it is necessary that we satisfy, either by ourselves or by another.”
Zacharius Ursinus
“No one can pay [recompense] except God, and no one ought to pay except man: it is necessary that a God-Man should pay it . . . In order, therefore, that a God-Man should bring about what is necessary, it is essential that the same one person who will make the recompense should be perfect God and perfect man. For he cannot do this if he is not true God, and he has no obligation to do so if he is not a true man”
Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, (Latin, Why the God-Man), Anselm lived from about 1033-1109
“The distinction between the active and passive obedience is not a distinction of periods. It is our Lord’s whole work of obedience in every phase and period that is described as active and passive, and we must avoid the mistake of thinking that the active obedience applies to the obedience of his life and the passive obedience of his final sufferings and death.
The real use of the formula is to emphasize the two distinct aspects of our Lord’s vicarious obedience. The truth expressed rests upon the recognition that the law of God has both penal sanctions and positive demands. It demands not only the full discharge of its precepts but also the infliction of penalty for all infractions and shortcomings. It is this twofold demand of the law of God which is taken into account when we speak of the active and passive obedience of Christ. Christ as the vicar of his people came under the curse and condemnation due to sin and he also fulfilled the law of God in all its positive commands. In other words, he took care of the guilt of sin and perfectly fulfilled the demands of righteousness. He perfectly met both the penal and the preceptive requirements of God’s law. The passive obedience refers to the former and the active obedience to the latter. Christ’s obedience was vicarious in the bearing of the full judgment of God upon sin, and it was vicarious in the full discharge of the demands of righteousness. His obedience becomes the ground of the remission of sin and of actual justification.”
John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied
“I am so thankful for the active obedience of Christ, no hope without it.”
J. Gresham Machen
“There is an intimation of the manner how this work shall be performed. This, first, God takes upon himself: ‘I will do it; “I will put enmity.”’ It is an issue of his sovereign wisdom and grace. But secondly, he will do it in and by the nature of man, “the Seed of the woman.” And two things must concur to the effecting of it;—first, That this Seed of the woman must conquer Satan, bruise his head, destroy his works, and procure deliverance for mankind thereby; secondly, That he must suffer from, and by the means of, Satan in his so doing,––the serpent must “bruise his heal.” This is the remedy and relief that God hath provided from mankind. And this is the Messiah, or God joining with the nature of man to deliver mankind from sin and eternal misery”
John Owen, Hebrews
“At the beginning when the first promise of salvation was given to Adam it glowed like a feeble spark. Then, as it was added to, the light grew in fullness, breaking forth increasingly and shedding its radiance more widely. As last––when all the clouds were dispersed––Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, fully illumined the whole earth”
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Five Articles of Remonstrance - General Facts
Written in 1610 by Simon Episcopius and Janus Uytenbogaert, students of Jacob Arminius. Jacob Arminius passed away before it was published. Written as an attempt to have the Belgic Confession and Heidelberg Catechism Revised.
Origin of the TULIP acronym
Tulip is only about 100 years old. The acronym appears to have appeared in the early 20th century, 1905 and appears to come from a Pastor Cleland where he introduced the five points of Tulip. McAffee’s five points were tweaked further and his lection was popularized in 1932 when a lay theologian named Lorain Bettener published a book called “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination” this was based on his masters thesis at Westminster Theological seminary. He took McAffee’s acronym and popularized the five points of Calvinism
In short: 1932, Loraine Boettner in The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. Original formulated by Pastor Cleland McAffee.
“That God, by an eternal, unchangeable purpose in Jesus Christ, his Son, before the foundation of the world, hath determined, out of the fallen, sinful race of men, to save in Christ, for Christ’s sake, and through Christ, those who, through the grace of the Holy Ghost, shall believe on this his Son Jesus, and shall persevere in this faith and obedience of faith, through his grace, even to the end; and on the other hand, to leave the incorrigible and unbelieving in sin and under wrath, and to condemn them as alienate from Christ, according to the word of God in John 3:16 and other passages.”
The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 1
“… Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, died for all men and for every man, so that he has obtained for them all, by his death on the cross, redemption, and the forgiveness of sins; yet that no one actually enjoys this forgiveness of sins, except the believer.”
The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 2
“That man has not saving grace of himself, nor of the energy of his free-will, inasmuch as he, in the state of apostasy and sin, can of and by himself neither think, will, nor do anything that is truly good (such as having faith eminently is); but that it is needful that he be born again of God in Christ, through his Holy Spirit, and renewed in understanding, inclination, or will, and all his powers, in order that he may rightly understand, think, will, and effect what is truly good, according to the word of Christ, John xv. 5: ‘Without me ye can do nothing.’”
The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 3
“That this grace of God is the beginning, continuance, and accomplishment of any good, even to this extent, that the regenerate man himself, without that prevenient or assisting; awakening, following, and co-operative grace, [can] neither think, will, nor do good, nor withstand any temptations to evil; so that all good deeds or movements that can be conceived must be ascribed to the grace of God in Christ. But, as respects the mode of the operation of this grace, it is not irresistible, inasmuch as it is written concerning many that they have resisted the Holy Ghost,—Acts vii, and elsewhere in many places.”
The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 4
“…But whether they are capable, through negligence, of forsaking again the first beginnings of their life in Christ, of again returning to this present evil world, of turning away from the holy doctrine which was delivered them, of losing a good conscience, of becoming devoid of grace, that must be more particularly determined out of the Holy Scriptures before we ourselves can teach it with the full persuasion of our minds.”
The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 5
“1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.”
WCF 6
“making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ”
Ephesians 1
“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will”
Ephesians 1
“That perfection of God by which in a most simple act and in a relational manner he goes out toward himself toward creatures outside of him for his own name sake.”
Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics
“God works the best of things and the worst of things for his glory.”
Thomas Watson
- By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.
WCF 6
- They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
WCF 6
“We believe that, through the disobedience of Adam, original sin is extended to all mankind; which is a corruption of the whole nature, and a hereditary disease, wherewith infants themselves are infected even in their mother’s womb, and which produces in man all sorts of sin, being in him as a root thereof; and therefore is so vile and abominable in the sight of God, that it is sufficient to condemn all mankind”
Belgic Confession 15
“Man brought forth children of the same nature as himself after the fall. That is to say, being corrupt he brought forth corrupt children. The corruption spread, by God’s just judgment, from Adam to all his descendants — except for Christ alone — not by way of imitation (as in former times the Pelagians would have it) but by way of the propagation of his perverted nature”
Synod of Dort, Article 2, “The Spread of Corruption”
- From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
WCF 6
- This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.
WCF 6
- Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.
WCF 6
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Romans 3
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalm 51
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53
If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near
1 Kings 8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6
“The new birth is necessary in every part of the soul. . . . Because there was an universal depravation by the fall, regeneration must answer it in its extensiveness in every faculty. Otherwise it is not the birth of the man, but of one part only”
Stephen Charnock, “The Necessity of Regeneration”, Published in Works, 3:26)
as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
Romans 3
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Ephesians 2
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Cor 2
We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 64