‘And of course, the issue of predestination–unconditional election–was the key controversy. The other elements kind of flowed from that, and so it made sense for the Synod to begin there. The attraction of TULIP, I think, is that there is a kind of logic to the order of TULIP, and I do believe if you start with total depravity, and you get people to really understand total depravity, then the rest of Calvinism does flow logically.

Now, we don’t believe it because it’s logical; we believe it because it’s biblical, and we can show biblical texts to support each of these points.’

-W. Robert Godfrey (Ligonier)

Read (or listen to) the whole thing here

(GSiV: A Mindset All Reformed Folks Need; ‘Giáo Luật của Dordt (Dort)’ Là Gì?–part 18; TULIP: Possible translations in Vietnamese; Election; Atonement; Piper; Eternal security; Salvation; Evangelism and Calvinism; TULIP; A great brief summary of Calvinism (in English); The Joys of Definite Atonement ;

TULIP là gì?; GSiV Resource Page)