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The Reformed Faith QUOTES

The Reformed Faith QUOTES

1 " Hence the explanation of sin is that God permits it, but controls and overrules it for His own glory. If "

― Loraine Boettner , The Reformed Faith

2 " Arminianism has no explanation as to why God purposefully and deliberately creates those who He knows will be lost and who will spend eternity in hell. "

― Loraine Boettner , The Reformed Faith

3 " the Arminian makes a fatal concession. Figuratively speaking, he cuts his own throat, for the simple reason that as God foresees those who will be saved, He also sees those who will be lost! Why, then, does He create those who will be lost? Certainly, "

― Loraine Boettner , The Reformed Faith

4 " God is the absolute sovereign Ruler of heaven and earth, and we are never to think of Him as wishing or striving to do what He knows He will not do. For Him to do otherwise would be for Him to act foolishly. Since "

― Loraine Boettner , The Reformed Faith

5 " what God does. He sovereignly picks a man up out of the kingdom of Satan, and places him in the kingdom of heaven. Those are the elect that are referred to some 25 times in the Scriptures: Matt. 24:22: "For the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened those days" (at the destruction of Jerusalem). I Thess. 1:4: "Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election." Rom. 11:7: "The election obtained it, and the rest were hardened." Rom. 8:33: "Who shall lay anything to charge "

― Loraine Boettner , The Reformed Faith

6 " We therefore have to choose between an atonement of high efficiency which is perfectly accomplished, and an atonement of wide extension which is imperfectly accomplished. We cannot have both. If "

― Loraine Boettner , The Reformed Faith

7 " the Arminian, in making it apply to all men, reduces its effectiveness to such an extent that it becomes practically no atonement at all. "

― Loraine Boettner , The Reformed Faith