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#13 T.U.L.I.P.

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This easy acronym helps Calvinists to remember the primary tenants of Calvinist Theology. Each letter stands for a significant teaching of Calvin or his immediate followers. Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints. Often you'll hear someone say "I'm a 5 point Calvinist," meaning that they ascent to all 5 points of the TULIP acronym. You also commonly find 4 point Calvinists who object to Limited Atonement (the idea that Christ only died for the elect).

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#10 Latin

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Even John Calvin himself published his greatest work, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Latin five years before publishing it in his native French. Calvinist ideas are much older than graphic design and thus were unable to be recognized as easily as, for instance , recycling is recognized by the triangle of arrows. What were Calvinist to do? Latin was the most universal language at the time of the reformation and for some years after. The Five Solas are five Latin phrases that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers' basic theological beliefs in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day.

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Though Latin has ceased to be a spoken language, it is now used to represent ideas that are bigger than even the words themselves. Something that can be hard to do using common languages. This does not mean that Calvinist deem Latin of some particular importance above the words but they can convey common ideas such as "by scripture alone" in a way that is singularly focused in meaning by using the Latin, "Sola scriptura."