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Grace Defined and Defended: What a 400-Year-Old Confession Teaches Us about Sin, Salvation, and the Sovereignty of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Grace—a doctrine central to the gospel—ought to be clearly defined so it can be celebrated, relished, and consistently defended. In this book, Kevin DeYoung leads us back to the Canons of Dort, a seventeenth-century document originally written to precisely and faithfully define this precious doctrine. The Canons of Dort stand as a faithful witness to the precise nature of God’s supernatural,...

from “among the common mass of sinners” (Article 10). Keep in mind that election takes place in eternity past, from before the foundation of the world. So the distinction “between people equally lost” is made in the will of God, not first in history. This gets us into one of the most intricate debates in Reformed theology: the debate between supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism. Theologians have often argued about the order in which God decreed certain things to happen. The debate is not over
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