Category: TULIP

  • Five Points Compared to a Few Soteriologies

    For those interested, I thought it would fun to provide a tableshowing acceptance of TULIP’s various petals (T = Total Depravity, U =Unconditional Election, L = Limited Atonement, I = Irresistible Grace,P = Perseverance of the Saints). T U L I P Pelagian No No No No No Pelagian ES No No No No Yes…

  • What Calvinism Is Not!

    Many of Calvinism’s most vocal critiques could learn a thing or seven from Gordan Runyan’s latest post at Reformed Mafia (link). Gordon explains what TULIP: T => Total Depravity = Really and truly dead in sin => RU => Unconditional Election = Only cause of salvation to be found in God => OL => Limited…

  • Truth in Labeling: Aminianism, Amyraldianism, and Hyper-Calvinism

    It’s no secret that the present generation of young Christians in America have an increased interest in the doctrines of grace, commonly referred to as Calvinism. These doctrines generally teach the absolute sovereignty of God. They reject man’s absolute autonomy, in favor of an autonomy that is compatibly with absolute sovereignty. They declare monergism: the…