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“Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.”

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Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

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