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Canon Commotion

Read our blog posts on the Canons of Dort, gathered into one list for easy access. New blog posts go up every week. Here you can start from the beginning, or find the posts you’ve missed.

Our blog post content comes from Rev. Paul Treick’s book, Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still: A Study of the Five Points of Calvinism, available for purchase. It is posted with the gracious permission of the author.

  1. Introduction (1): Faith of Our Fathers
  2. Introduction (2): The Five Points of Calvinism
  3. Introduction (3): The Doctrine of Salvation
  4. God’s Sovereignty (1): Sovereignty Defined and God’s Eternal Nature
  5. God’s Sovereignty (2): Creator and Self-Sufficient
  6. God’s Sovereignty (3): Creatures are Dependent
  7. God’s Sovereignty (4): Absolute Power, Glorious Reign
  8. God’s Sovereignty (5): Love, Mercy, and Grace
  9. Arminius and the Remonstrants
  10. Arminianism and the Canons of Dort (1): Arminianism’s Unintended Consequences
  11. Arminianism and the Canons of Dort (2): Humanism
  12. Arminianism and the Canons of Dort (3): The Synod
  13. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (1): Free Will
  14. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (2): Sin
  15. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (3): Sin’s Origin
  16. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (4): Imputation
  17. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (5): Necessary Regeneration
  18. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (6): A Gift, Not Cooperation
  19. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (7): Common Errors
  20. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (8): The Importance of Sin as Sin
  21. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (9): Serious Sin, Serious Salvation
  22. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (10): What Does the Record Show?
  23. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (11): A Deadly Serious Matter
  24. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (12): Biblically Based
  25. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (13): Scriptural Proofs
  26. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (14): Slaves to Sin
  27. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (15): Hell
  28. The Doctrine of Total Depravity (16): Freed Will, Not Free Will
  29. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (1): Based on Total Depravity
  30. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (2): Chosen
  31. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (3): By Mercy and Grace
  32. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (4): Completely Trinitarian
  33. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (5): Various Errors
  34. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (6): The Fairness Question
  35. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (7): the Gospel’s General and Effectual Call
  36. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (8): Missions and Success
  37. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (9): What About Human Responsibility?
  38. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (10): Grace is Owed to None
  39. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (11): A Doctrine of Comfort
  40. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (12): Scriptural Proofs
  41. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (13): Before the Creation of the World
  42. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (14): Appointed to Eternal Life
  43. The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (15): Foreseen and Created
  44. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (1): Power or Possibility?
  45. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (2): Limited to “His People”
  46. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (3): The Lamb and His Sheep
  47. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (4): Is It Just?
  48. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (5): Universal Benefit?
  49. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (6): Universal Application?
  50. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (7): and the Mission of the Church
  51. The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (8): Scriptural Proofs
  52. The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (1): A Trinitarian Work
  53. The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (2): Inward Call and Freed Will
  54. The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (3): Regeneration Precedes Faith
  55. The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (4): How the Spirit Works in Us 
  56. The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (5): Scriptural Proofs 
  57. The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (6): Scriptural Proofs (Continued)
  58. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (1): Everlasting Assurance
  59. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (2): Is It Up To Us?
  60. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (3): God the Preserver
  61. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (4): Backsliding
  62. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (5): Salvation, Sin, and Church Discipline 
  63. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (6): Sin, Not Hypocrisy 
  64. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (7): Scriptural Proofs
  65. The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (8): Scriptural Proofs (Continued)
  66. Conclusion
  67. Hymn: By Grace Alone

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