Originally Posted by Tom
Johan

It is good you are going to see your pastor about the issue.
However, I am assuming that your pastor is Reformed? If that is the case, although this does not justify what he said; he could be saying that man's sin and depravity affects their mind set; which of course it does. This of course is only a small portion of what sin and depravity affect.

What I have found quite odd even among Reformed pastors today, is that they often change the words in order to help people understand things better. In my mind however, I think they succeed only in confusing the issue. I think a better way to do what they are trying to do (if they find a need to do it), is to use the words that have always been used, then explain what it means.

Tom

Tom,

Yes, the pastor is reformed.

You may be right in that pastors "often change the words to help people understand things better". But why is it that a couple of hundred years ago it was not necessary. What's wrong with our 21st century "well educated" person? None of the great Confessions of Faith use such phrasing.

Johan