Matthew1344
Puritan Board Sophomore
Does federalism rule out supralapsarianism?
Not sure how?
I was thinking...
How can someone be in Christ, Christ as their head, if not first be under the headship of Adam. So maybe they would have to be sinful first. Maybe the means of the fall came before the means of election.
But then i though...
Shouldn't God have put the elect under the eternal headship of Christ and under a temporal headship of adam before meaning the fall?
Or am i speaking nonsense?
This " Federal Theology " was developed and introduced in all its fulness of detail and bearings by Coccejus (1602-1669), Prof,atFraneckerandLeyden. Itwasregardedaseminently a Scriptural system, supplanting the prevailing scholasticism, and destroying forever the influence of supralapsarian specula- tions, and it gradually found acceptance, under appropriate mod- ifications, with Lutherans and Arminians as well as Calvinists. - A.A. Hodge pg 362
Not sure how?
I was thinking...
How can someone be in Christ, Christ as their head, if not first be under the headship of Adam. So maybe they would have to be sinful first. Maybe the means of the fall came before the means of election.
But then i though...
Shouldn't God have put the elect under the eternal headship of Christ and under a temporal headship of adam before meaning the fall?
Or am i speaking nonsense?