{"id":26687,"date":"2026-03-18T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=26687"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:04:35","slug":"hyper-calvinism-defined-by-a-hyper-calvinist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2026\/03\/hyper-calvinism-defined-by-a-hyper-calvinist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-Calvinism: Defined By A Hyper-Calvinist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baptist Particular Vodcast serves as an analysis of Particular Baptist history and theology from a Hyper-Calvinist point of view.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This Episode: How does one define Hyper-Calvinism? While there are modern and free-lancing definitions, there is also a historic definition which serves as the goal post for the label. In this episode, Jared Smith traces the historical and doctrinal developments from John Calvin during the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century to the tenets of Hyper-Calvinism during the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(0:03) Introduction<\/p>\n<p>(9:08) Chapter 1\u2014First Level Hyper-Calvinism: From Calvin To The Westminster Confession (1550-1646)<\/p>\n<p>(46:56) Chapter 2\u2014Second Level Hyper-Calvinism: From The Westminster Confession To The Baptist Confession (1646-1689)<\/p>\n<p>(1:29:01) Chapter 3\u2014Third Level Hyper-Calvinism: The Baptist Confession Of Faith And Benjamin Keach\u2019s Covenantal Reform (1689-1704)<\/p>\n<p>(02:14:37) Chapter 4\u2014Third Level Hyper-Calvinism: Benjamin Keach\u2019s Covenantal Reform And John Gill\u2019s Systematic Theology (1704-1771)<\/p>\n<p>(03:29:14) Chapter 5\u2014Third Level Hyper-Calvinism: The \u201cModern Question\u201d And The Particular Baptist Denominational Split (1785-1815)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The comments made at (1:10:03) regarding Tom Ascol\u2019s view on Confessionalism is an accumulative summary of his statements rather than direct quotation. The viewer is encouraged to watch the Founders Ministries (Sword &amp; Trowel) <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z50LoPn6pSY?si=33v4SU-zYRdTwwDc\">podcast<\/a>\u00a0in full context. Jared takes the view that Ascol\u2019s affirmation that the Bible is not enough for one\u2019s faith\u2014that Biblicists are arrogant and tend to become heretics; that a believer\u2019s default mode should be submission to the confession rather than one\u2019s own understanding of Scripture; that it is a Scriptural imperative for a church to be \u201cConfessional\u201d; that church officers should pledge allegiance to the confession; that preachers are not free to preach outside the bounds of the confession; that the confession serves as guardrails for the Christian life\u2014clearly demonstrate the 1689 Confession is elevated to a status above that of the Scriptures. 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