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The Protestant Reformed Church: Common Grace “Is the grace of Almighty God common to all men, or is it particular and for the elect alone?” This question was the main cause of the split that occurred in the Christian Reformed Church and started the Protestant Reformed Church. The issue was between common grace and particular grace. The controversy all started when Ralph Janssen, professor of Old Testament Studies in Calvin Seminary, was accused of higher …

…common grace. So what is the right answer? Is the grace of God common to all men, or is it for the elect alone? This is a tough question but Schaap gives a good answer stating that “no human being can offer completely satisfactory answers” (252). Only God knows the right answers so it is not of great importance if one believes in common or particular grace because man does not know the one perfect truth.