The Glory of God is Primary

by John Samson

“In this system of theology [the doctrines of grace], the glory of God is central. As every planet revolves around the blazing sun, every truth of sovereign grace rotates around this one fixed point – the glory of God. The unrivaled pre-eminence of God stands at the focal point of this theological universe. That God is to be the chief object of praise in the display of His grace is what energized this solar system of truth. As the compass always points north, so the doctrines of grace constantly point upward the lofty heights of the glory of God.”¹

I believe the second generation of Protestant Reformers really understood this truth and that is why they went as far as they did in the Synod of Dordt to respond to the Remonstrants by calling Arminianism heresy – because they saw it as the first steps on the road that leads to Rome and away from the “true north” of giving glory only to God for salvation.

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1  Steve Lawson, Foundations of Grace, A Long Line of Godly Men, Volume 1, page 31.