what does it mean to be a reformed christian?

Question

or better yet what is reformed christan religion? What is that? Is there a such thing?

Answer 1

Reformed Christianity is a conservative understanding of the Bible that believes that the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit, written without error, and is authoritative today. Reformed Christianity was developed out of the Protestant Reformation. The phrase "reformed" Christians simply refers to how these Church figures were "reforming" to what the Bible taught instead of the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.

The "reformers" emphasized what they called the "five solas." "Sola" is Latin meaning "Only." The solas are:

Sola Scripture: Scripture alone is the only inerrant rule of the church's life.

Solus Christus: Salvation is obtain soley through the work of Christ.

Sola Gratia: We are rescued from God's wrath only by His grace.

Sola Fide: Our sins are erased only when we have faith in Christ.

Soli Deo Gloria: Because salvation is of God, and has been accomplished by God, it is for God's glory and we must glorify him alone always.

Church Fathers like Martin Luther (the father of the Reformation), John Calvin, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards (Popular figure in America's "Great Awakening"), C.S. Lewis (author of Mere Christianity and the Chronicles of Narnia), and even J.R.R. Tolkien (author of Lord of the Rings) all held to a "reformed" theology.

To be a Reformed Christian simply means that you hold to the historic understanding of God and the Bible. Reformed Theology is also at times called "Calvinism" after John Calvin who formally developed and wrote out the differences in theology. For more information check out these sites:

http://www.redeemer3.com/store/ (This is a popular reformed church in New York City. You can listen to some sermons and conferences on different "reformed" theological issues)
http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/reformed.html
http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/calvinism.html
http://www.pcanet.org/general/beliefs.htm (a reformed denomination's statement of belief.)

Answer 2

To a few measure sure, for even a clergyman will let you know that any translation isn't always phrase for phrase as all languages shouldn't have phrases for the identical matters; for that reason any translation runs the chance of replacing the which means. Also, the bible and each different holy ebook used to be written through guy, no longer god or another supernatural being, and if no human is ultimate, then no human works are ultimate.

Answer 3

Your beliefs are watered down to where it's not christianity at all but they like to say it is. It is just a sign of the times and the movement toward the one world religious system.

Answer 4

I have no idea, but I wish more of them would reform...into decent human beings. So far, I have met very few decent Christians.

Answer 5

a reformed christain is a refined one who is in christ as the bible says anyone that be in christ his a new creature .anew being seprated from sin whose old things have passed away and those oldes have become new in christ

Answer 6

Someone who has strayed away from Christ once they have already been saved, but has come back again in acting on their faith!