Dr. John Bergsma
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And so reformed tradition this, reformed tradition that.
And I went to my professors and said, I thought we were supposed to be against tradition.
And my professor said, oh, come on.
Everybody has their tradition.
Baptists have traditions.
Eastern Orthodox have traditions.
Calvinists have traditions.
It's just a matter of which tradition you're in.
I thought, wait a second.
I thought we were, you know, it's just the word of God.
That's what I understood by sola scriptura.
We don't have a tradition.
Well, if we have a tradition, what basis do we have to claim that our reformed tradition should be normative for all Christians?
Do you understand?
Yeah.
You understand that?
Yes.
And so this really began to bother me.
And so I would go to my professors and say, you know, we believe that we're Orthodox Calvinists.
Can we insist that the Eastern Orthodox adopt our beliefs?