Why do Calvinists deny there is the gospel of grace ?

[Presby02]

It's a cause as even Calvin agrees


John 3:16 (KJV 1900) — 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.



The efficient (primary) cause of our eternal salvation the Scripture uniformly proclaims to be the mercy and free love of the heavenly Father towards us; the material cause to be Christ, with the obedience by which he purchased righteousness for us; and what can the formal or instrumental cause be but faith? John includes the three in one sentence when he says, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life,” (John 3:16).


That is not the word of an Arminian or a provisionist but of


John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 1997).


Similarly The Calvinist Theologian Berkouwer states


3. TO FAITH. Faith is the mediate or instrumental cause of sanctification as well as of justification. It does not merit sanctification any more than it does justification, but it unites us to Christ and keeps us in touch with Him as the Head of the new humanity, who is the source of the new life within us, and also of our progressive sanctification, through the operation of the Holy Spirit



L. Berkhof, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans publishing co., 1938), 537.

There is not just a correlation between faith and justification, faith and regeneration , faith and salvation

There is a causal relationship even Calvinist theologians have affirmed

It's a means to a end. It's by faith, not because of fairh.

 

[brightfame52]

Brightfames 52 does what Calvinist often do. Ignore what is posted and run elsewhere

https://berean-apologetics.communit...-there-is-the-gospel-of-grace.1721/post-95186

Grace reigns through righteousness that's the gospel of God's grace!

 

[TomL]

Grace reigns through righteousness that's the gospel of God's grace!

Brightfames 52 does what Calvinist often do. Ignore what is posted and run elsewhere

https://berean-apologetics.communit...-there-is-the-gospel-of-grace.1721/post-95186

 

[brightfame52]

Brightfames 52 does what Calvinist often do. Ignore what is posted and run elsewhere

https://berean-apologetics.communit...-there-is-the-gospel-of-grace.1721/post-95186

Grace reigns through righteousness that's the gospel of God's grace!

 

[brightfame52]

The Gospel of Grace informs us that God has made a eternal choice of some of mankind to be saved, a remnant

Eph 1:4-6

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.


Rom 11 :5-6

5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.