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Common Grace on The Monty Collier Report

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The Monty Collier Report
is my published and video transmitted journal which deals with the theological, historical, cultural, and philosophical issues of our day from a Protestant / Calvinist point of view. Mr. Collier is a teaching elder at Geneva Dutch Calvinist Church--located in Kingsport, Tennessee.

The Monty Collier Report has begun a new series examining Common Grace Theory as taught by Louis Berkhof and the 1924 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church. This Common Grace Theory is often referred to as simply the 3 Points of Common Grace in Dutch Reformed circles. It has also been embraced in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) and the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA).

If you would like to watch The Monty Collier Report on the subject of Common Grace, then please proceed to the following links:
1) Introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hEgLagijGs

2) The First Point of Common Grace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qq1gC-M_hY

3) The First Point continued
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhoU-I1iAyY

4) The First Point continued
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Arx8iCQmSE

5) The First Point continued--The Free Offer of the Gospel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy8kw7NPlCs

6) The First Point continued--The Free Offer of the Gospel 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNPBZMH0ic

7) The First Point continued--The Free Offer of the Gospel 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kVC9HRSw9w

Feel free to post any remarks on this thread about the videos, so that we can discuss the doctrine known as Common Grace.

If anyone would like a published copy of The Monty Collier Report, then email me and I will get one out to you. We are about to publish Volume II of The Monty Collier Report, and like Volume I, it is always free of charge.

Thank You,
God Bless and Sola Fide,
Red Beetle
 
This is a partial reply to the Free Offer and a partial reply to the common grace view of Mr. Collier:

Most of what you write I agree with and I am as Calvinistic and Clarkian as you except in some of Clark’s theology, zero in his Philosophy. As brothers I want to contend with you on this due to your serious accusations of heresy.

1.) Your use of the word will or intend. Historically Reformed theology has understood a distinction between the two aspects of God’s one will being perceptive (moral) and decretive (According to his plan and the execution thereof). You seem to not even try to qualify the difference. If you see no distinction, I would like to know if you believe that God’s prohibition to Adam, not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sprang from his moral nature, or no, and why. Free offer says that God morally desires and intends their salvation, but not according to his decree. He decretively does not desire their salvation. Please do not object that we believe in two wills. We are saying the one will has two aspects, just as the one person of Christ has two natures and this is no contradiction or crazy talk. I will think of you the same that you think of a fundamentalist who objects to the logic of Calvinist theology by saying that Jesus is 100% human and 100% percent divine and this proves their illogical theology, if you use that objection.
2.) I question your judgment by using the word heresy as you do. Please give me your definition.
3.) If you think that John Murray is a heretic I feel sorry for you.
4.) A simplistic use of the word free will. Free offer says that man has free agency, not free will.
5.) Your unqualified distinctions while using these words proves ambiguity as you accused others of. Moreover, the reasons you may think we are using ambiguity is because much of this discussion overlaps into the hidden things of God’s secret counsel.
 
Olivianus said:
This is a partial reply to the Free Offer and a partial reply to the common grace view of Mr. Collier:
I think that RED BEETLE has been banned, so I suspect you will not hear from him. For your information.
 
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