R.C. Sproul's Irrational Love Of Thomas Aquinas

Have you ever heard the absurd claim that Thomas Aquinas' theology could be classified as Protestant or Reformed?
If you are familiar with the theology and teaching of R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner, then you probably have heard this foolish claim.

In this short video, I demonstrate that Martin Luther and John Calvin both considered Thomas Aquinas' theology to be heretical and contrary to the basic teachings of Scripture.

Here are two more quotes from Martin Luther which demonstrate his rejection of Aquinas' heretical theology. Like the quote I provide in the video, these two quotes show Luther rejecting Aquinas' theology as heretical.

Luther said,
"This is the procedure of Thomas: First he takes statements from Paul, Peter, John, Isaiah, etc. Afterward he concludes that Aristotle says so and so and he interprets Scripture according to Aristotle."
(Table Talk, Recorded By Dietrich, Number 280)

I hope I don't have to remind any Protestants that we do not interpret the Bible according to Aristotle. We will leave such a heretical method to the Catholics. As Calvinists, we interpret Scripture with Scripture.

Here is another quote from Luther. In this quote, Luther gives thanks to God for delivering him from the heretical medieval scholastic theology of the Catholic whore-church.

Luther states,
"When the papacy was flourishing Scotus, Bonaventura, Gabriel, and Thomas [Aquinas] had to embroider their thoughts with fantasies because they had no serious tasks to perform...Occam was very clever in his devotion to method; he had a fondness for enlarging upon and amplifying things into infinity, but Thomas was most loquacious because he was seduced by metaphysics. God led us away from all this in a wonderful way; without my quite being aware of it He took me away from that game more than twenty years ago."
(Table Talk, Recorded By Lauterbach, Number 3722)

As for Calvin, I have yet to find a quotation from his writings that praise the theology of Thomas Aquinas. The quote I give from Calvin's Institutes demonstrates that Aquinas had a heretical view of predestination. Aquinas' view essentially claims that it is the finite merits of puny man which determine the omnipotent and infinite mind of God in matters of predestination unto life. Such a view is not Reformed.

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