Favorite "reformed" verse?

[Imblessed]

Hi all! As you all know, I'm a "baby" in the reformed view, and I was just wondering what all of your favorite "reformed" verse/s is...the one that really just says it all to you!

Mine would be John 6:37 and 44.

37: All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
44: No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.


I'd love to hear all of yours, maybe there's a few I hadn't "seen" yet!!

 

[StAnselm]

"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:1-2

 

[Imblessed]

"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:1-2

are you a universalist? That verse alone would point to Jesus saving everyone in the whole world with the act on the cross.

 

[cygnusx1]

Jacob I Loved..............(Romans 9)

 

[StAnselm]

are you a universalist? That verse alone would point to Jesus saving everyone in the whole world with the act on the cross.

Well, I believe what the Bible says, so I must be.

My point being, of course, that the're no such thing as a 'reformed' verse.

 

[BBAS 64]

Good Day all

There are so many, My fav has to be.

Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Peace to u,

Bill

 

[tigersnare]

Well, I believe what the Bible says, so I must be.

My point being, of course, that the're no such thing as a 'reformed' verse.

This reminds me of those people you try to discuss theology with and throw the Jesus "card" so to speak.

As in , "Man, I dont know about all that mess, I just follow Jesus".....

or "I just beleive what my bible says".

 

[StAnselm]

"I just beleive what my bible says".

Of course, that's not a bad thing in itself...

My reply is always, "and what does your bible say?"

On a more serious note, we mustn't suppose that there are some verses in the Bible that support Reformed soteriology, and some that support Arminian soteriology, but that the former outweigh the latter. No, if the Reformed faith is biblical and true, then it fits with all of Scripture. Hence, there are no specifically 'Reformed' verses. Reformed proof-texts, maybe, but nore Reformed verses.

So if we are going to be genuinely Reformed, we need to take passages like 1 John 2:1-2 seriously.

 

[Imblessed]

Of course, that's not a bad thing in itself...

My reply is always, "and what does your bible say?"

On a more serious note, we mustn't suppose that there are some verses in the Bible that support Reformed soteriology, and some that support Arminian soteriology, but that the former outweigh the latter. No, if the Reformed faith is biblical and true, then it fits with all of Scripture. Hence, there are no specifically 'Reformed' verses. Reformed proof-texts, maybe, but nore Reformed verses.

So if we are going to be genuinely Reformed, we need to take passages like 1 John 2:1-2 seriously.

Maybe I stated my OP wrong. I don't mean to imply that "reformed" verses outweigh un-reformed; or even that there are "specifically" reformed verses. I am just fairly new to the reformed way of thinking, and there are so many verses that speak to me now, that I just used to "skim" over because I couldn't understand them, or they seemed contradictary. It's just amazing to me how the bible "speaks" now, when just a few months ago, it was still a big mystery, and I've been a christian all my life. (not to say I understand it perfectly by ANY means....but things make a lot more sense now, it seems).

 

[StAnselm]

Yeah, to be quite honest, Imblessed, I did understand what you meant - I guess I was being facetious. Sorry about that.

Welcome to the Reformed Faith!

 

[JM]

The whole Bible drips with Grace (calvinist teaching), but I understand what you're asking.

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.


John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."