Chapter 1: The Meaning of Dordt The synod of Dordt was concerned to defend the doctrine of the sovereign grace of God against the encroachment upon it by the doctrine of the free will of man. By the free will of man we mean the would-be-autonomy of fallen man. The apostle Paul tells us that there are two and only two kinds of people in this world. There are those who, because of their fall in Adam, serve and worship the creature rather than the Creator, and there are those who, because of their redemption
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