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antinomianism, baxter, Calvinism, John Piper, new calvinism, reformed, Robert Brinsmead, rutherford, Seventh-day Adventist Church
Paul Dohse:
Most people in our day that call themselves Calvinists or Reformed are really New Calvinists. And most of them are young, uninformed, and misinformed when they are informed by New Calvinists calling themselves Calvinists. John Piper is an example of this. Is he a Calvinist? Hardly.
Furthermore, the word needs to get out that New Calvinism, New Covenant Theology, Gospel Sanctification, and Sonship Theology are the SAME thing and came from the EXACT same source—a Seventh-Day Adventist turned atheist named Robert Brinsmead. No wonder they constantly proclaim, “All truth is God’s truth.” I would also.
Neo-Calvinism is 41 years old, period. And the whole T4G, TGC bunch is the same bunch of antinomians who show-up and harass the church every 50-100 years. It’s the same bunch Ryle had to contend with and Baxter /Rutherford before him. Different doctrine, same goal: anti-law.
Read more here.
I am not so sure Mr. Dohse is getting it his critique on New Calvinism quite right! See—
http://cruxchristi.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/the-scandalous-gospel-a-response-to-paul-dohse/
“the whole T4G, TGC bunch is the same bunch of antinomians who show-up and harass the church every 50-100 years.”
Seems like a very broad brush that demands a whole bunch of credible back-up. For sure, each of these has several who ought be disciplined, but I wonder at his all-encompassing description. It’s too easy, but rarely accurate, to do so.
By Baxter do you mean Richard Baxter? The well known Amyraldian. Now I love Baxter for so may things, but be careful with saying that he was architypally Reformed. Remember that his view of justification was not exactly orthodox Reformed (read JI Packer’s article “The Doctrine of Justification in development and decline” for a good account on this).
Furthermore, just a wee comment on some of your prevous posts concerning the New Calvinism: I am with you with the truth that sanctification necessitates indiviudal effort and co-operation with the Spirit. However, where I see issues with what you have written is that you never mention sanctification in the definitive sense. The issue is that one cannot co-operate with the Spirit unless the chains and shackles of sin has been broken in the definitive, and so sanctification will only result from being a new person in Christ. And if you are a new person in Christ, you will be sanctified, because the Spirit dwells within you and you will desire to do God’s will, and you will put in the effort because you are a new person (though the flesh and the Spirit continue to battle in your heart, and you will still sin – so I hope you see I am sort of with you on the fact that Christians are not totally depraved, but still have to battle the flesh). Works therefore evidence salvation, and one must see progressive sanctification if one is to have a well grounded assurance, but these works can only spring out of a changed heart, which is a monergistic work of grace.
just some thoughts…