Minimum Requirements?

[AMR]

Brother Dean, I don't see anything about paedo, or credo Baptism in T.U.L.I.P.

All Reformed are Calvinists (TULIP), but there is so much more.
Not all Calvinists are Reformed.

The TULIP acrostic did not originate with Calvin. The doctrines of grace summarized by TULIP emerged some 54 years after his death in answer to the Remonstrants. Those five points of Arminius' followers were:

1. God elects or reproves on the foreseen faith or unbelief. (anti-U)
2. Christ died for all men although only believers are saved. (anti-L)
3. Man is so depraved that divine grace is necessary to bring man unto faith. (anti-T)
4. This grace may be resisted. (anti-I)
5. Whether or not all who are truly regenerate will certainly persevere requires further investigation. (anti-P)

The doctrines of grace ended up being summarized as TULIP by a Pastor in the early 1900s as a nifty memory aid.

The five points, though separately stated, are really inseparable. They hang together; you cannot reject one without rejecting them all. To Calvinism there is really only one point to be made in the field of soteriology: the point that God saves sinners.

God, the Triune Jehovah, Father, Son and Spirit; three Persons working together in sovereign wisdom, power, and love to achieve the salvation of a chosen people: the Father electing, the Son fulfilling the Father's will by redeeming, the Spirit executing the purpose of Father and Son by renewing. Saves: does everything, first to last, that is involved in bringing man from death in sin to life in glory: plans, achieves and communicates redemption, calls and keeps, justifies, sanctifies, glorifies. Sinners: men as God finds them, guilty, vile, helpless, powerless, unable to lift a finger to do God's will or better their spiritual lot.

God saves sinners and the force of this one main point may not be weakened by disrupting the unity of the work of the Trinity, or by dividing the achievement of salvation between God and man and making the decisive part man's own, or by soft-pedaling the sinner's inability so as to allow him to share the praise of his salvation with his Savior.

This is the one point of Calvinistic soteriology which the 'five points' are concerned to establish and Arminianism in all its forms or descendents (open theism) to deny: namely, that sinners do not save themselves in any sense at all, but that salvation, first and last, whole and entire, past, present and future, is of the Lord, to whom be glory for ever.