Biblical Distinctions(Tensions/boundary markers/fences) held by the Reformed Confessions….for Gospel Precision

General/Special Revelation

Providence: Divine/Human Causality (First and Secondary)

Creation: Twoism/Oneism

Creator/Creation

God/Man

Man/Woman

Man/Animal

Good/Evil

Holy/Profane

Creation/Falleness

The Will of Man: Free/Bound

Divine/Human Natures of Christ

Old/New Covenant (Continuity/Discontinuity)

Covenant of Works/Covenant of Grace

Particular/Common Grace

Law/Gospel

Justification/Sanctification

Justice/Mercy

Orthodoxy/Orthropraxy

Fear/Fear Not  

Pre/Post Fall

First/Second Adam (Romans 5)

Profession/Possession of Faith

Physical/Spiritual Circumcision

Visible/True Israel (Romans 3:3-5)

Faith/Faithfulness

Saving Faith/Repentance

Repentance/Good Works

Actual/Imputed Righteousness (Forensic)

Sins of Commission/Omission

Theology of the Cross/Theology of Glory

Wheat/Weeds

Faith/Assurance

Transcendent/Immanent

Communicable/Incommunicable Attributes

Gospel/Implications of the Gospel

In the World/Not of the World

Sanctificaiton: From/To, From within/From without

Conscience: Where is it Free for individual Christians? Where is it Bound for all?

Church: Visible/Invisible

Church: Militant/Triumphant

Church: Mixed yet True/Apostatizing  

Sacraments: Sign/Thing Signified

Prophesy: Promise/Fulfillment

Eschatology: Already/Not-Yet

Utopian fallacies are fueled by the flattening of Distinctions/Egalitarianism (One-ism) under the desire for no tension.

Secularism/Paganim Destroys all Fundamental Distinctions from Genesis.

The Historic Reformed Confessions display the framework for showing relationship and distinctions.