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Responding to False Accusations

At the end of the Canons of Dort—the document produced out of the Synod of Dort summarizing the key tenets of Reformed theology—there is a section dedicated to refuting common false accusations against Reformed theology. We see here Dort’s desire to defend Reformed theology from slander and to call upon Christ to protect the truth and sanctify his church.

Here are the four accusations the Synod sought to address, along with a short quote from their actual response in the Canons of Dort:

False Accusation #1: The doctrine of predestination is a hindrance to godliness.

That the teaching of the Reformed churches on predestination and on the points associated with it by its very nature and tendency draws the minds of people away from all godliness and religion, is an opiate of the flesh and the devil, and is a stronghold where Satan lies in wait for all people, wounds most of them, and fatally pierces many of them with the arrows of both despair and self-assurance . . .

False Accusation #2: The doctrine of predestination makes God the author of sin.

That this teaching makes God the author of sin, unjust, a tyrant, and a hypocrite; and is nothing but a refurbished Stoicism, Manicheism, Libertinism, and Turkism [i.e. Islam] . . .

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