Always Reforming

Sadly, my experience with the Reformed is that most of them exist in a bubble, and dare not think outside their confessional strictures. Like myself, a truly Reformed person affirms the normative principle of worship, not the overly restrictive regulative principle.

Reformed have made no progress in eschatology since the 1600s. Biblical theology is premillennial and affirms a pretribulation rapture of the Church.

I’ve observed many Reformed who have made their Reformed confessions into idols. These idols are placed above the word of God!

I also take issue with most Reformed churches’ hermeneutics which favor interpreting the Old Testament in light of the New Testament, and the so-called NT Priority. I favor the grammatical-historical-literal hermeneutic. It’s also very sad that most Reformed affirm covenant theology. CT is not biblical. If we rightly handle the Word of God we will adopt a dispensational theology.

Due to the strict formalism of Reformed theology, which was produced using faulty hermeneutics, there is often no room for the work of the Spirit. One of the issues is replacement theology whereby the promises made to Israel are fulfilled in the Church, rather than being fulfilled literally in the case of Israel.

We must teach the whole counsel of God. Too often Reformed adherents will engage in eisegesis because of their faulty hermeneutics which make them believe things which disharmonize with the whole of Scripture.

May we be always reforming, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

SEMPER REFORMANDA.

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