Reformed and Reforming
Since your theology is the most important thing in your life, it seems obvious, then, that your type of theology must be crucial. As stated in the previous section, your theology governs how you think about everything else in the world and in your life. So getting theology right must of necessity be of utmost concern.
To that end, I have to contend that Reformed doctrine is the most Biblical, logical, viable theology. I would hold that it is the theology of the Scriptures in systematized form. Yet, as man is still fallible, we must be in some sense open to the idea that certain parts of our theology are in error (maybe if not necessarily formally - like in creeds or confessions, although that too could be the case), but certainly in our own personal beliefs and lives.
The major five solas of the reformation are golden and undeniably Scriptural. Yet one of the more sobering remarks that came out of the Reformation was the phrase "semper reformanda" - always reforming or always to be reformed. This speaks to the fallibility of man and his need to always be looking at his own faith and life in view of the Scriptures and being always reforming (or rather conforming) himself to be more aligned with them.
Whether this plays out in adjusting or revising formal creeds and/or confessions or whether it plays out in simply living a more sanctified life (both, of course, only being done by the power and work of the Spirit), being reformed and reforming is the aim of my faith as God gives me the grace to do it. And it should be the aim of every Christian (Phil. 3:13-16).
To that end, I have to contend that Reformed doctrine is the most Biblical, logical, viable theology. I would hold that it is the theology of the Scriptures in systematized form. Yet, as man is still fallible, we must be in some sense open to the idea that certain parts of our theology are in error (maybe if not necessarily formally - like in creeds or confessions, although that too could be the case), but certainly in our own personal beliefs and lives.
The major five solas of the reformation are golden and undeniably Scriptural. Yet one of the more sobering remarks that came out of the Reformation was the phrase "semper reformanda" - always reforming or always to be reformed. This speaks to the fallibility of man and his need to always be looking at his own faith and life in view of the Scriptures and being always reforming (or rather conforming) himself to be more aligned with them.
Whether this plays out in adjusting or revising formal creeds and/or confessions or whether it plays out in simply living a more sanctified life (both, of course, only being done by the power and work of the Spirit), being reformed and reforming is the aim of my faith as God gives me the grace to do it. And it should be the aim of every Christian (Phil. 3:13-16).