CoreIssue
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Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
What do you not understand about WHOLLY LOST ALL ABILITY OF WILL? I am honestly baffled at this blatant ignoring of fact and claiming it says the opposite.
This is so blatantly wrong that even secular Wikipedia knows. The Presbyterian Church was the one that wrote the confession in the first place!
Presbyterian history is part of the history of Christianity, but the beginning of Presbyterianism as a distinct movement occurred during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. As the Catholic Church resisted the reformers, several different theological movements splintered from the Church and bore different denominations. Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French theologian John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology, and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman and a Roman Catholic Priest, who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland. He brought back Reformed teachings to Scotland. The Presbyterian church traces its ancestry back primarily to England and Scotland. In August 1560 the Parliament of Scotland adopted the Scots Confession as the creed of the Scottish Kingdom. In December 1560, the First Book of Discipline was published, outlining important doctrinal issues but also establishing regulations for church government, including the creation of ten ecclesiastical districts with appointed superintendents which later became known as presbyteries.[22]
In time, the Scots Confession would be supplanted by the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, which were formulated by the Westminster Assembly between 1643 and 1649.
Now this I may actually be able to agree with. There is a difference between Calvinism, and what people think is Calvinism, which is actually called hyper Calvinism. 2 totally different things
Bold claim. Would love to see the facts that show that the Calvinistic view of predestination is different than that of Scripture?
You reading skills really stink. Nowhere in the Bible does it even hint can man has lost his ability to repent.
The ancients creeds and confessions and authors of the Protestant Reformation are not superior to the Bible nor did they agree with each other. And they all upheld repentance.
Much of Catholicism stayed with them in their breakaway. Reform does not mean to replace.
You elevate them far too much.
Don't quote that nonsense to me. Show me in the Bible,