Kuyperianism - Session 6 - Doug Wilson | Blueprints for Christendom 2.0 2024 

Amen sister!

I don't know, take a peek at Tyrone Covenant PCA and Pilgrim Presbyterian Church OPC

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Nope

None of that is un-reformed, none is unscriptural, and none is Pelagian. Even if you disagree with it, do so on its own merits, not by strawmanning. And common grace is an unavoidable Biblical doctrine, holding simply that Matthew 5:45 means what it says.

@@MrAbsentmindedprof Guido de Bres (author of the Confession) and Calvin (an executor of heretics), along with the many reformed churches who held the Confession in its original form for up to 300 years or more (the PRCA still holds to the original) might disagree. Pierre Viret said it was the job of the state to tear down idols, and this was a common thread throughout the Reformers. Kuyper had an ecumenical approach because he was also a politician. It bleeds through into his (and you can really call it his) doctrine of Common Grace. Common Grace is thoroughly Arminian and it grossly contradicts Scripture. If you believe Matt 5:45 teaches it, you must hold to the belief that God has unmerited favor, or love, for the non-Elect, since that is what grace is. That is thoroughly un-reformed. People do not have full knowledge, and thus, we don't know who are Elect and non-Elect, yet God does and he uses people as His Providential instruments by which He gives blessings to His Elect and generosity to the non-Elect so that they fill up their measure of wrath because they do not properly appropriate good things from God. They presume upon the sunlight and rain and do nothing in faith, which is sin, yet the Elect receives all things and does all things in faith, and they are truly gracious to him. Just like during the 40 years before Israel entered the Promised Land, God was sending sunlight and rain upon those wicked people who occupied the land so that they could store of their wrath for their day of judgement that was coming upon them. I don't know how anyone can call that grace when the end is wrath and judgement. Romans 2 destroys Commons Grace, especially verses 4 & 5: 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God...God is 'good' to unbelievers, but the goal of His goodness for those He did not predestine to salvation is not favor; it is wrath and judgement since they have no excuse. Romans 9:14-23, specifically verses 22 & 23, also destroys Common Grace: 22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory... And also, Psalm 73 regarding the issue of why it seems the wicked are favored by God: 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end 18 Surely You set them in slippery places You cast them down to destruction. 19 Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.20 As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image....Asaph goes on to show his own remorse for thinking that, I dare say, there's such thing as Common Grace to the wicked. Proponents of Common Grace have gone on to say that the Holy Spirit has a non-salvific operation in the world. That's preposterous. The Spirit convicts the hearts of and brings salvation to the Elect. They say that through Common Grace, man, in his fallen state, is able to do good (civil good). They say it makes man better than he would be without it. It is not grace that keeps a man from being as sinful as he can be. It is the Law which is written on every human heart and it is built into his nature because, though fallen, he is made in the image of God. It is his nature to give good gifts to his own children, but for every gift not given in faith, it is sin for him. Rom 14:23 Furthermore, the Canons of Dort, 3rd & 4th heads of doctrine note the following error of the Arminians: V. Who teach: That the corrupt and natural man can so well use the common grace (by which they understand the light of nature), or the gifts still left him after the fall, that he can gradually gain by their good use a greater, namely, the evangelical or saving grace and salvation itself. And that in this way God on his part shows himself ready to reveal Christ unto all men, since he applies to all sufficiently and efficiently the means necessary to conversion. For the experience of all ages and the Scriptures do both testify that this is untrue. "He showeth his Word unto Jacob, his statues and his ordinances unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his ordinances they have not known them," Psalm 147:19, 20. "Who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own way," Acts 14:16. And: "And they (Paul and his companions) having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, and when they were come over against Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit suffered them not," Acts 16:6, 7. Not surprisingly, Van Til and others have said that Common Grace is a precursor to Saving Grace. They have to say this because this is where the error takes them. How impotent is God's grace when Common Grace fails to manifest itself as Saving Grace for the non-Elect! How impotent is the Spirit when He can restrain sin in a man, but not save him! The legacy of Common Grace is the very wayward CRC, which, 100 years ago, adopted 3 grievous errors that came directly from Kuyper and Bavink. PJ Hoedemaker rightly opposed Kuyper and Bavink. Van Til (CRC) tried further to baptize the doctrine as Reformed. It is not surprising that the Radical 2 Kingdom theology of the URC, coming out of the CRC in the 90's, came out of this false doctrine of Common Grace as well. The PRCA rightly opposed this doctrine and split away from the CRC because of it. They have been vindicated. It is our lack of perfect knowledge which tempts us to grasp a doctrine of Common Grace. It's a short cut that we like to convince ourselves because it simplifies something that is harder to grasp, namely the intricate, Providential plan of God to work throughout time so that the Elect can live in homes they did not build, eat of vineyards they did not plant, etc. Call it the Providence, Goodness, Generosity, Forbearance, and/or Longsuffering of God, but do not call it Grace to the non-Elect. God's Grace is specifically for and to His Elect. The non-Elect have no favor with God.

My guy, you’re over complicating the term “common grace”.

@Miles_Teg I can assure you I am not. Kuyper wrote a massive 3 volume work on Common Grace. I think I know who has overcomplicated the matter.

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Do you have a middle eastern messiah to save America? Bring us your middle eastern holy man! Go Trump!

Yep sure do. His name is Jesus. ​@Zxuma

@@Zxumathis retort won’t convince anyone of anything. They’re right. Trump won’t stand on anything, even life. Anyone that will compromise on life will compromise on anything. There’s hills to die on. Not interested in throwing my vote away for a coward, And make no mistake, Trump is a coward. His desire to win people over that are ideologically opposed to him is already becoming his downfall.

God chose Sampson.

@@annablackburn5474 Last I knew no one got to vote for Sampson. There is also that little factor of faith and repentance which are absent in our modern day reprobates.

He rules earth from heaven and one day he will return. The Bible calls him Kyrios and it's perfectly fine to do so.

@@jaihummel5057 so you think the father revealed his name to Moses as Kyrios?

Jesus is on His throne right now

You're 100% right, but to be fair to Kuyper, many "Kuyperians" take him much farther than he every went. To understand Kuyper you have to contextualize him. He was arguing for a Christian presence in a pluralistic, Modern society. I always find it humorous when Christian nationalist use Kuyper considering that he specifically separated the church and state in his writings.

Would this be a NT answer to your last question? Acts 17:6 (ESV): And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,” Sounds like their life and doctrine was causing political problems, no?

@@Mattsprankle I don't think that anyone denies life can cause political problems, and I image that most believe that doctrine impacts politics.

@@Mattsprankle This was slander from the Jews against them, not a badge of honor to be worn. Ironically, Paul writes back to this church in Thessalonica and says "and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs (1 Thess 4:11)." Do you think that meant taking political action?

@@christianmama2441I’m sorry, but this view of running from our call to baptize and make disciples of all nations because engaging in politics doesn’t suite you is a problem. The judgement our nation and world is facing is because we have handed over territory that wasn’t ours to give. Neutrality is a lie and there is no co-existing with secularism. Everything belongs to the Lord, everything. These aren’t false teachings, this is 100% Biblical. All authority on Heaven and Earth have been given to the Son. Read Psalm 2. I, and many others, are tired of “not getting involved” while they mutilate the kids and spit in the face of our Creator.

Why are you gay?

So Wilson ended this with a monologue for around 5-10 minutes which can be simplified by saying to the nation "repent!" and you say that they don't care about the gospel? I think you just have Doug derangement syndrome, or maybe you just hate Calvinism.

Doug has more gospel in his little pinky finger than in your entire body brother.

@@philipmurray9796 The guys is a federal visionist. You seem to be conflating the law and gospel

@@jahnvantuttlesma8215 Federal vision is a Boogeyman. It's simply Westminster Confession of Faith and covenantal thinking. It is not a confusion of law and gospel.