Lijkt mij niet...Geka schreef:En dat lijkt me inderdaad een juiste uitspraak over de leeruitspraken in relatie tot de gereformeerde belijdenis. Overigens denk ik dat de eerste leeruitspraak erg moeilijk te 'harmoniseren' valt met antwoord 74 van de HC, en eveneens met de visie van Calvijn. (Lees bijv. zijn commentaar op Gen. 17:7).memento schreef:De leeruitspraken geven een bepaalde interpretatie aan de 3 formulieren. Er zijn meer interpretaties mogelijk van de 3 formulieren, die zich op een bredere traditie in de reformatie kunnen beroepen. Die interpretaties worden uitgesloten door de leeruitspraken.Tiberius schreef:Al eerder hier gezegd: de leeruitspraken zijn geen aanvulling of dichttimering, maar onderstreping van de drie formulieren.
Lees de catechismus verklaring van Ds. van der Groe maar op dit punt...
En Calvijn, in je aangehaalde commentaar:
And although it was by the grace of God, and not by nature, that they excelled the Gentiles; and although the inheritance at the kingdom of God came to them by promise, and not by carnal descent; yet they are sometimes said to differ by nature from the rest of the world. In the Epistle to the Galatians, (Galatians 2:15), and elsewhere, Paul calls them saints ‘by nature,’ because God was willing that his grace should descend,406406 “Quia continua serie prosequi nolebat Deus, gratiem suam ergo totum semen.” So it is, both in the Amsterdam edition, and in that of Hengstenberg; but the word nolebat (was unwilling) seems so contrary to the writer’s line of argument, that the French version is followed in the translation, which is, “Pource que Dieu vouloit poursuyure,” etc. — Ed by a continual succession, to the whole seed. In this sense, they who were unbelievers among the Jews, are yet called the children of the celestial kingdom by Christ. (Matthew 8:12.) Nor does what St Paul says contradict this; namely, that not all who are from Abraham are to be esteemed legitimate children; because they are not the children of the promise, but only of the flesh. (Romans 9:8.) For there, the promise is not taken generally for that outward word, by which God conferred his favor as well upon the reprobate as upon the elect; but must be restricted to that efficacious calling, which he inwardly seals by his Spirit. And that this is the case, is proved without difficulty; for the promise by which the Lord had adopted them all as children, was common to all: and in that promise, it cannot be denied, that eternal salvation was offered to all. What, therefore, can be the meaning of Paul, when he denies that certain persons have any right to be reckoned among children, except that he is no longer reasoning about the externally offered grace, but about that of which only the elect effectually partake? Here, then, a twofold class of sons presents itself to us, in the Church; for since the whole body of the people is gathered together into the fold of God, by one and the same voice, all without exception, are in this respects accounted children; the name of the Church is applicable in common to them all: but in the innermost sanctuary of God, none others are reckoned the sons of God, than they in whom the promise is ratified by faith. etc..
sorry voor het engels, misschien dat iemand het in het nederlands heeft...
Maar ook Calvijn wijst erop dat er 2 soorten leden in de kerk zijn, de kinderen des vleses, en de kinderen der belofte...