Historic Calvinism
The verses I have in mind are those in which the Lord Jesus Christ spoke plainly to his enemies, saying that those who do not believe on him do not believe because they are not his sheep, that those who are his sheep believe and follow, that this is true because they are given to him by the Father, that these who are given to him by the Father inevitably come to him and, finally, that these who come will never be lost. This is a message of man’s complete ruin in sin and God’s perfect remedy in Christ, and it can be expressed in the distinctive points of Calvinistic theology. Before we look at these points in detail, however, we should see that far from being an aberration or addition to the gospel, these truths have always belonged to the core of the Christian proclamation and have been characteristic of the church at its greatest periods.
历史上的加尔文主义
我想到的经文是主耶稣基督对他的仇敌直言不讳地说，那些不信他的人之所以不信，是因为他们不是他的羊，那些属于他的羊的人相信并跟从，这是真的，因为他们是天父赐给祂的，那些天父赐给他的人必然会来到他那里，最后，那些来的人永远不会失落。这是人类在罪中彻底毁灭以及神在基督里完美拯救的信息，它可以用加尔文主义神学的独特观点来表达。然而，在我们详细研究这些要点之前，我们应该看到，这些真理绝不是福音的偏差或补充，而是一直属于基督教宣讲的核心，并且是教会在其最伟大时期的特征。
