A Clearer Understanding of Calvinism

Looking at the five points of Calvinism, there is the Hyper View and the Moderate View. Now here's a clearer understanding of the Calvinist point of view of Reformed Theology which Spurgeon upheld:

1.) Total depravity

It means that it is not just badness but blindness to God's beauty and deadness to the deepest joy. Romans 3:10-19 clearly speak of the total depravity of man.

2.) Unconditional election

It means that the completeness of our joy in Jesus was planned for us before we ever existed in the overflow of God's joy in the fellowship of the Trinity. Notice the words in 2 Thessalonians 2:13 saying that at the beginning they were chosen for salvation. God even told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5 that he knew the prophet even before He formed the latter in the womb.

3.) Limited atonement

While Hyper-Calvinism chooses to view this in the way that Jesus didn't die for all men, but certainly Jesus didn't die for everybody but only man. He didn't die for anything else but man. This is the assurance that indestructible joy in God is infallibly secured for us by the blood of the New Covenant.

4.) Irresistible grace

t is the commitment and power of God's loves to make sure that Christians don't hold to suicidal pleasures and to set them free by the sovereign power of superior delights. Titus 2:11-14 shows the power of God's grace to change lives.

5.) Perseverance of the saints

This is the work of God and not to let the Christian fall away completely but to keep them in all affliction and suffering for the inheritance, fullness of joy in His presence and the pleasures at His right hand forevermore. This is where the true believers are separated from the false. 1 John 2:19 describes that those who departed from the assemblies were never saved to start with.