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Do Calvinists Believe In Double Reprobation?

Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by JesusFan, Mar 3, 2011.

  1. Rippon

    Rippon Well-Known Member
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    There is no such doctrine as double reprobation.

    Again,this is reprobation instead of preterition.
    And "horrible decree" means awesome or awe-inspiring.

    John Wesley and other Arminians have gotten a lot of mileage out of "horrible decree".
     
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    So because you say it doesn't exist it ceases to exist? I'm looking at the term in a theology textbook right at this moment.

    So I assume the word translated "horrible decree" has multiple possibilities? Or what's the deal with that?
     
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    I don't know what you mean?

    It's just badly translated Latin. And in this modern age in particular, people are industriously indolent.(I paraphrased A.W.Pink) for that one. They assume that words always had the same meaning.
     
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    Sorry I wasn't clear. I mean I see this term in a theology book I own...so why would you say it doesn't exist at all?
     
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    I get around,and I have never heard of double reprobation. It doesn't make any sense.

    What is the name of the author who uses that term?
     
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    You are actually correct...the author uses double predestination, not double reprobation. I must have been substituting the word myself. Sorry about that.

    The book is "Christian Theology" by Millard J. Erickson, but as I said, he isn't using this specific term.
     
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