Love these clear answers. To put it in very simple terms, as Alistair Begg once said...being Reformed means you take your Bible, read it, believe it, and then you are Reformed.
Hawayu Ligonier Ministries *& I Say Thanks 🙏 2 Pst. W. Robert Geodfrey, Pst. Stephen Nicols, Pst. Sinclair Ferguson & Pst. Derek Thomas 4 Answering This Powerful, Blessful, Deep Question on "What Does It Mean 2 Be Reformed ?" Where I Say That Pst. W. Robert Geodfrey, Pst. Stephen Nicols, Pst. Sinclair Ferguson & Pst. Derek Thomas are Veryyyyyy, Veryyyyyy Ryt One 💯% Where I Say That 2 Be Reformed Is 2 Be Reshaped By Our Great LORD Jesus Christ 4 In Him We Live & Move & Have Our Being 4 2 Live Is Christ & 2 Die Is Gain Written In Acts 17:28 & Philippians 1:20 Where When We are Reformed, We're Reformed or Reshaped By The Word of God* & God Bless Pst. W. Robert Geodfrey, Pst. Stephen Nicols, Pst. Sinclair Ferguson & Pst. Derek Thomas Together With Ligonier Ministries So Veryyyyyy, Veryyyyyy Much.🙏🙏🕊️🕊️
Yes. And, I am very serious when I made this statement .. all the way from a tiny nation like Singapore. These days we have far too many who will gratify itchy ears! But what we really need is Back to the Bible. Nothing more. Nothing less. And, nothing else! 🙂
You got it right! Dry, desolate, without any life-sustaining food or water😮 These are pompous men with incoherent views that cannot be reconciled with scripture on one hand praising the reform of false teaching and reliance on tradition of the 15th century Catholic Church only to replace it with reliance on Reformation traditions and incoherent philosophy… God wants all to be saved but causes many, maybe most to be damned! God reveals his truth in scripture alone …but no one can understand unless God first converts them to Christ…but why do we have so much written to encourage men to believe if that is impossible. Just a couple incoherencies of the reformers A true intellectual and spiritual desert …good call😅
"Reformed"? Back the beginning of the Church. Original meaning. Original text as carefully translated to our present language. If any of you remember the late Rev. Edwin Elliott, Sr. And Rev. Elliott, Jr. of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Manassas, Virginia, one of the six that founded the Delmarva Presbytery of the new denomination of the Presbyterian Church in America, I think 1973?, They brought me along to the Reformed Presbyterian Faith.
It means to adhere to apostolic doctrine as the reformers pointed out which was needed due to the false teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. So it’s not a new system it’s what was before them there Roman Catholics got there grubby evil paws on Gods word. ✊ ✊ It instead holds to the authority of Scripture, the sovereignty of God, salvation by grace through Christ, and the necessity of evangelism
This description of what it means to be “reformed” is not helpful. In its simplest form, they say it is to “believe the Bible” but other Protestants that had their origins based in the Reformation also believe the Bible in defining their theology. The Bible does not define “election” or “sovereignty” in the way that Calvin or others define it. Unfortunately, these terms have been hijacked by Calvinists and have been so narrowed that other verses in Scripture do not make sense in any reasonable way. With that said, this video is fairly typical in not being able to succinctly define what it means to be reformed with any distinction from Calvinism.
This was not very helpful. At least say what one is reformed from. Dancing around the issues so as not to offend is not helpful. Speak the plain things clearly so they can have a chance at being the main things.
“I’m willing to bet you are wrong and the confession is right.” Are we Catholic now? Do we rely on tradition of theologians from 400-500 years ago? Have we not made progress in a more accurate text and more thoughtful theological inferences that have more explanatory scope and depth? Or has Reformed Theology and praxis become the very thing that Luther complained about Catholic theology and praxis 😅 Every time I hear an appeal to mystery by Reformers due to explanations that only make sense for a handful of scriptures but are incoherent when the full scriptural data are examined seems absurd😮 God loves us and doesn’t want ANY to parish but determines that many , maybe most will parish!!! God dictates through his providence men’s desires so as to control their wills but that is said to be compatible with “free will.” God condemns men to hell who no way to respond whatsoever God condemns men to hell for sin they couldn’t have possibly NOT committed!😮 Every member of the panel knows that there is no coherent answer to these objections and dodges their interlocutors with appeals to ignorance or mystery. Fakers to the last man😅
Love these clear answers.
To put it in very simple terms, as Alistair Begg once said...being Reformed means you take your Bible, read it, believe it, and then you are Reformed.
You for got act and do according to belief fruit not works
Always love these QnA sessions.
Very insightful🙏
I think of it as spiritual desert to listen to these men.
To be reformed is to cleanse and redirect the Church back to path of Christ
Is your last name Godfrey by any chance?
No
Back from what?
To be reformed is to neither add nor subtract from the Gospels, written According To Jesus Christ. Always, and without compromise.
To be Reformed is to be biblical in daily living
Hawayu Ligonier Ministries *& I Say Thanks 🙏 2 Pst. W. Robert Geodfrey, Pst. Stephen Nicols, Pst. Sinclair Ferguson & Pst. Derek Thomas 4 Answering This Powerful, Blessful, Deep Question on "What Does It Mean 2 Be Reformed ?" Where I Say That Pst. W. Robert Geodfrey, Pst. Stephen Nicols, Pst. Sinclair Ferguson & Pst. Derek Thomas are Veryyyyyy, Veryyyyyy Ryt One 💯% Where I Say That 2 Be Reformed Is 2 Be Reshaped By Our Great LORD Jesus Christ 4 In Him We Live & Move & Have Our Being 4 2 Live Is Christ & 2 Die Is Gain Written In Acts 17:28 & Philippians 1:20 Where When We are Reformed, We're Reformed or Reshaped By The Word of God* & God Bless Pst. W. Robert Geodfrey, Pst. Stephen Nicols, Pst. Sinclair Ferguson & Pst. Derek Thomas Together With Ligonier Ministries So Veryyyyyy, Veryyyyyy Much.🙏🙏🕊️🕊️
They can be trusted. 🙂
Yes. And, I am very serious when I made this statement .. all the way from a tiny nation like Singapore. These days we have far too many who will gratify itchy ears! But what we really need is Back to the Bible. Nothing more. Nothing less. And, nothing else! 🙂
Listening to these men is spiritual desert for me.
Do you mean a rich spiritual “dessert”? Or a dry, barren, spiritual “desert”?
You got it right!
Dry, desolate, without any life-sustaining food or water😮
These are pompous men with incoherent views that cannot be reconciled with scripture on one hand praising the reform of false teaching and reliance on tradition of the 15th century Catholic Church only to replace it with reliance on Reformation traditions and incoherent philosophy…
God wants all to be saved but causes many, maybe most to be damned!
God reveals his truth in scripture alone …but no one can understand unless God first converts them to Christ…but why do we have so much written to encourage men to believe if that is impossible.
Just a couple incoherencies of the reformers
A true intellectual and spiritual desert …good call😅
Reformed means that you are saved by faith alone, without the need for a priest.
Thanks
Thanks for sharing.
The Savoy Declaration never gets any love…
great Message
"Reformed"? Back the beginning of the Church. Original meaning. Original text as carefully translated to our present language. If any of you remember the late Rev. Edwin Elliott, Sr. And Rev. Elliott, Jr. of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Manassas, Virginia, one of the six that founded the Delmarva Presbytery of the new denomination of the Presbyterian Church in America, I think 1973?, They brought me along to the Reformed Presbyterian Faith.
It means to adhere to apostolic doctrine as the reformers pointed out which was needed due to the false teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. So it’s not a new system it’s what was before them there Roman Catholics got there grubby evil paws on Gods word. ✊ ✊ It instead holds to the authority of Scripture, the sovereignty of God, salvation by grace through Christ, and the necessity of evangelism
LOVE SINCLAIR!!!
Reformed is biblical. 😊
Amen !. .👼
is calvanism reformed?
Yes, it's one of the branches
To be reformed means to be biblical
Poor Steve Lawson
This description of what it means to be “reformed” is not helpful. In its simplest form, they say it is to “believe the Bible” but other Protestants that had their origins based in the Reformation also believe the Bible in defining their theology. The Bible does not define “election” or “sovereignty” in the way that Calvin or others define it. Unfortunately, these terms have been hijacked by Calvinists and have been so narrowed that other verses in Scripture do not make sense in any reasonable way.
With that said, this video is fairly typical in not being able to succinctly define what it means to be reformed with any distinction from Calvinism.
This was not very helpful. At least say what one is reformed from. Dancing around the issues so as not to offend is not helpful. Speak the plain things clearly so
they can have a chance at being the main things.
CHRIST DEAD FOR SINNERS,…………….AMEN
“I’m willing to bet you are wrong and the confession is right.”
Are we Catholic now?
Do we rely on tradition of theologians from 400-500 years ago?
Have we not made progress in a more accurate text and more thoughtful theological inferences that have more explanatory scope and depth?
Or has Reformed Theology and praxis become the very thing that Luther complained about Catholic theology and praxis 😅
Every time I hear an appeal to mystery by Reformers due to explanations that only make sense for a handful of scriptures but are incoherent when the full scriptural data are examined seems absurd😮
God loves us and doesn’t want ANY to parish but determines that many , maybe most will parish!!!
God dictates through his providence men’s desires so as to control their wills but that is said to be compatible with “free will.”
God condemns men to hell who no way to respond whatsoever
God condemns men to hell for sin they couldn’t have possibly NOT committed!😮
Every member of the panel knows that there is no coherent answer to these objections and dodges their interlocutors with appeals to ignorance or mystery.
Fakers to the last man😅