Wow! R.C. Sproul's faith...

russel55 said:

Very weird, because I quoted directly from Sproul as well where he tells the same story about John Gerstner, as you can see. I suppose it could have happened twice—once to Gerstner and then later to Sproul—but the language is so similar that is sure seemed to me to be about the same event.

R. C. Sproul was one of John Gerstner's students (I assume at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in the 1960s).

It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that the "professor" in Sproul's personal anecdote was Gerstner himself, using the same lesson that had made such an impression on him a generation earlier, and that in turn it affected Sproul in precisely the same manner.

 

I am as Reform as they get salvifically speaking. It is biblical. Reform soteriology is just identifying what is already in Scripture. I have been engaged in discussion with several people on the "Doctrines of Grace" and I have noticed one common factor: How they understand the deadness of man.

Reform theology has truly recaptured what the bible says about man and his need for salvation and how that is possible. It is wholly a work of God, that is, synergistic.

 

That's a really reasonable explanation for it. Thanks.

 

And in my excitement I posted twice.

 

TCG , Reformed Theology with respect to regeneration says that it is wholly a work of God , that is , monergistic -- not synergistic .