As we said in the message of the union between the VE and the Ministry of Faith, one of the results of the union is the work to bring them good free material. Here is an excerpt from the first course of the teaching series: Reformed Theology?By Dr. RCSproul, who God willing will soon be available in its entirety to you.
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- “Even the Christian religion can be idolatre.
- When we strip God of its true attributes and place something at the center of our worship that is not God Himself” (R.
- C.
- Sproul).
In Romans 1, the Apostle Paul says that God has revealed himself through the things created so clearly and so clearly that every person in this world knows the eternal power and divinity of God; and yet the main sin of the human race is to take this knowledge of God and bring it down, as the Apostle Paul says in Romans, to suppress the truth against injustice, and then to change that truth for a lie, and to serve the creature instead of the Creator. , Transcendent and Holy God for the corruption of creature-like things. In other words, my friends, the most fundamental sin we commit, not only the heathen of remote Aboriginal lands or primitive tribes, but we commit, is the sin of exchange, the propensity for idolatry, and idolatry involves religion.
But even the Christian religion can be idolatre when we strip God of its true attributes and place something other than God Himself at the center of our worship.
If we want to examine the essence of reformed theology, I must tell you that the most rigorous objective of reformed theology is theology, in the knowledge of the true God.
We live in a time when people say theology is not important. This is what David Wells discredited in his book “There Is No Room for Truth. “What matters is feeling good. To be taken care of our psychological needs. Have a place where we can feel the warmth and brotherhood, and have a sense of belonging and relevance. And theology is something that divides. Something that ignites controversies and debates. They say, “We don’t need doctrine!
At the heart of reformed theology is the affirmation that theology is life, for theology is Dieu’s knowledge, there is no knowledge more important to inform our lives than the knowledge of God.
This is what the whole Réforme. Il scandals in the clergy, there were problems of immorality, both among the Roman Catholic people and among the Protestant people. And Luther said at the time: “Erasmo attacks the Pope in his womb, Luther attacked, still admitted that outrageous behavior had been found among our own people, but what we are trying to do in the first place is to come to a healthy understanding of God. Because our lives will never be reformed, they will never be put into conformity with Christ, until we have a clear understanding of the Original Form, the Model, the Ideal, the true humanity that is in Christ. And it’s a question of theology. Start by clearly recognizing that the reformed faith is a theology A theology that permeates the whole structure.