J. E. Smith
@DordtyHylemorph
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Rescued & known by Jesus, husband to @curlykjo05, dad, engineer, Reformed Catholicity & Ref Scholasticism, under care in the Presbytery of Ohio (@OrthodoxPC)
Joined October 2019
Anthony Tuckney on 2 Peter 1:4 Anthony Tuckney (Westminster divine and chairman of the Assembly’s committee for the Larger Catechism) on 2 Peter 1:4 (and yes, he does affirm that Adam had this grace): “8. As Nature sometimes anticipates Reason, so this Divine Nature [i.e., as
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Timeline cleanse for anyone who needs it https://t.co/kDkLF4aR8V
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Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
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Finally started Burgersdijk’s ‘Logic’. Useful text and one which would’ve been helpful before I started seminary!
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Burgess vs Bavinck on Nature and Grace before the Fall: Was the indwelling of the Holy Spirit natural to Adam and is it requisite for one to be "a human being in a full and true sense"? Burgess (Westminster Divine): "We do not say, That Adam had nothing supernatural in him...
More from Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on Adam's grace and its supernaturality: "ORiginal sinne is a privation, not only of that righteousness which was a natural perfection due to him upon supposition of his Creation for the enjoyment of God, but also of whatsoever
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Another one from Bavinck: “Granted, between the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in man before sin and in the state of sin, there is a big difference. Now that indwelling, after all, is “above nature” (supra naturam) because the Holy Spirit has to come to humans as it were from
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Burgess vs Bavinck on Nature and Grace before the Fall: Was the indwelling of the Holy Spirit natural to Adam and is it requisite for one to be "a human being in a full and true sense"? Burgess (Westminster Divine): "We do not say, That Adam had nothing supernatural in him...
More from Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on Adam's grace and its supernaturality: "ORiginal sinne is a privation, not only of that righteousness which was a natural perfection due to him upon supposition of his Creation for the enjoyment of God, but also of whatsoever
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Another one from Bavinck: “Granted, between the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in man before sin and in the state of sin, there is a big difference. Now that indwelling, after all, is “above nature” (supra naturam) because the Holy Spirit has to come to humans as it were from
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More from Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on Adam's grace and its supernaturality: "ORiginal sinne is a privation, not only of that righteousness which was a natural perfection due to him upon supposition of his Creation for the enjoyment of God, but also of whatsoever
Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on the “supernaturality”* of both Adam’s original righteousness and superadded grace contra the Socinians: —— “WE are discovering the Nature of that Image God created us in at first, that so we may see how great our losse is. The last
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More from Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on Adam's grace and its supernaturality: "ORiginal sinne is a privation, not only of that righteousness which was a natural perfection due to him upon supposition of his Creation for the enjoyment of God, but also of whatsoever
Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on the “supernaturality”* of both Adam’s original righteousness and superadded grace contra the Socinians: —— “WE are discovering the Nature of that Image God created us in at first, that so we may see how great our losse is. The last
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Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on the “supernaturality”* of both Adam’s original righteousness and superadded grace contra the Socinians: —— “WE are discovering the Nature of that Image God created us in at first, that so we may see how great our losse is. The last
“Furthermore, although Reformed Doctors claim that original justice was natural [in some sense] to the first man, many of them do not want to affirm that the first man lacked all supernatural grace and was only adorned with natural gifts from God. This is especially seen in Peter
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Compare that to this: https://t.co/yv7nbVRML0
Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on the “supernaturality”* of both Adam’s original righteousness and superadded grace contra the Socinians: —— “WE are discovering the Nature of that Image God created us in at first, that so we may see how great our losse is. The last
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Compare that to this: https://t.co/GFEKUtXMRs
"[Harrison] Perkins emphatically rejects the medieval Catholic notion of the donum superadditum (a 'superadded gift') as unnecessary and unbiblical. Instead, he argues that Adam’s nature was inherently oriented toward communion with God and eternal life. God 'designed us for that
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Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on the “supernaturality”* of both Adam’s original righteousness and superadded grace contra the Socinians: —— “WE are discovering the Nature of that Image God created us in at first, that so we may see how great our losse is. The last
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Important!
Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on the “supernaturality”* of both Adam’s original righteousness and superadded grace contra the Socinians: —— “WE are discovering the Nature of that Image God created us in at first, that so we may see how great our losse is. The last
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Anthony Burgess (Westminster Divine) on the “supernaturality”* of both Adam’s original righteousness and superadded grace contra the Socinians: —— “WE are discovering the Nature of that Image God created us in at first, that so we may see how great our losse is. The last
“Furthermore, although Reformed Doctors claim that original justice was natural [in some sense] to the first man, many of them do not want to affirm that the first man lacked all supernatural grace and was only adorned with natural gifts from God. This is especially seen in Peter
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