{"id":3639,"date":"2024-05-24T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T01:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/calvinism-vs-presbyterianism\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:51:23","slug":"calvinism-vs-presbyterianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/calvinism-vs-presbyterianism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30ab\u30eb\u30f4\u30a1\u30f3\u4e3b\u7fa9\u3068\u9577\u8001\u6d3e\u4e3b\u7fa9\uff1a\u9577\u8001\u6d3e\u306f\u30ab\u30eb\u30f4\u30a1\u30f3\u4e3b\u7fa9\u8005\u304b\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Presbyterians are Calvinists by confession, though not every Presbyterian church or member holds every point. Calvinism is a teaching about how God saves. Presbyterianism is a family of churches governed by elders, and those churches confess a Calvinist creed, the Westminster Confession. Not every Calvinist is Presbyterian: Reformed Baptists and Congregationalists hold the same doctrine under other church government. The two words meet in one scene. Paul called the elders of Ephesus to meet him at Miletus and told them,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvinism is a theology; Presbyterianism is church government by elders. Presbyterian churches confess Calvinism, but not every member holds it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[219],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-denominations-compared"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3558,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/what-denominations-are-calvinists\/","url_meta":{"origin":3639,"position":0},"title":"What Denominations Are Calvinist? 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