God PROVIDES every human being with EVERYTHING they need, INCLUDING FAITH, but every human being still MUST independently CHOOSE for themself, eternal Life or Death.
The problem comes with WHAT the Arminian's are presenting as "Salvation". True salvation is the rebirth that GOD gives. They are NOT stating that WE cannot "Claim" it. God has to BESTOW it. They are claiming that one who Christ died for can be taken from Him, when scripture CLEARLY states that none of His TRUE CHILDREN can be snatched away. They present satan as having some kind of sovereignty of his own, when truthfully he has none. He has to get permission from God, only if it is God's purpose and will. God would have to allow someone to lose salvation, and allow Satan to overturn it. God would NEVER die to let Satan overturn His Elect's salvation. If so, they were NEVER saved, just a "Measure" of faith, common grace. The salvation would be USELESS if it could be overturned. We can't save or keep ourselves, the whole point. GOD keeps us. He is sovereign, in control of all. He has ordained all that comes to pass. If you don't believe God is sovereign, you can't believe He brought about the crucifixion, or that ANYTHING foretold in the Bible will ever take place. The problem is that Arminianism us a DIFFERENT GOSPEL. It is COUNTER to scripture. The rebirth is not for all, not all are Children. Not all are saved, or meant to be. They are misguiding others. They are saying salvation is saying a prayer or alter call. Without the rebirth, there is NO salvation. People are being LIED TO. THAT is the PROBLEM. It is BLASPHEMY. The "Rebirth" of the believer correlates to the "Shema" in Deuteronomy 6, something only God could do perfectly.. It is a love in the head and the heart that only GOD can give, and the Law NEVER could produce on its own. Only God, Christ.
You say:"I also need the Kingdom vision of NT Wright". NT Wrights version of the kingdom has all evidence pointing it to be not one of personal salvation from penalty of sin for all glory to Jesus alone, but rather an ecumenical spirit of unity with the ways of world. No wonder in Wright's perspective, Biblical creationism as per God's word is exchanged for a form of godless naturalistic evolutionism. We are commanded to test the spirits. There is no other plain example of bad fruit than in the swirling moral and ethical liabilities of Wrights mentee and Biologos founder, Francis Collins.
Yeah, well... RC Sproul had absolutely no charity for my mentor, Clark Pinnock, whom he deemed anathema, and was on record saying that he was hellbound. Sproul also went after him to oust him from the Evangelical Theological Association. So, RC Sproul might have been charitable and funny with Billy Graham, but he did not exhibit this sort of charity to others. He was a complete jackass. (I have no charity, as you can see...)
I’m very encouraged by your insight here Pastor Scott. I too have been impacted in my walk with believers with different perspectives on the non essentials.
M. L’Engle said we draw people by displaying “ a light that is so lovely that they want with all their heart to know the source of it.” I don’t agree with her in a lot of areas but this quote has impacted me!
In the subtitle, please change "our" to "are".... Don't want any distractions from all this edifying content! Thank you for standing for unity in the body of Christ
God PROVIDES every human being with EVERYTHING they need, INCLUDING FAITH, but every human being still MUST independently CHOOSE for themself, eternal Life or Death.
Of course, you realize Sproul was palagiarizing Whitefield's alleged response to a similar question about Wesley?
The problem comes with WHAT the Arminian's are presenting as "Salvation". True salvation is the rebirth that GOD gives. They are NOT stating that WE cannot "Claim" it. God has to BESTOW it. They are claiming that one who Christ died for can be taken from Him, when scripture CLEARLY states that none of His TRUE CHILDREN can be snatched away. They present satan as having some kind of sovereignty of his own, when truthfully he has none. He has to get permission from God, only if it is God's purpose and will. God would have to allow someone to lose salvation, and allow Satan to overturn it. God would NEVER die to let Satan overturn His Elect's salvation. If so, they were NEVER saved, just a "Measure" of faith, common grace. The salvation would be USELESS if it could be overturned. We can't save or keep ourselves, the whole point. GOD keeps us. He is sovereign, in control of all. He has ordained all that comes to pass. If you don't believe God is sovereign, you can't believe He brought about the crucifixion, or that ANYTHING foretold in the Bible will ever take place. The problem is that Arminianism us a DIFFERENT GOSPEL. It is COUNTER to scripture. The rebirth is not for all, not all are Children. Not all are saved, or meant to be. They are misguiding others. They are saying salvation is saying a prayer or alter call. Without the rebirth, there is NO salvation. People are being LIED TO. THAT is the PROBLEM. It is BLASPHEMY. The "Rebirth" of the believer correlates to the "Shema" in Deuteronomy 6, something only God could do perfectly.. It is a love in the head and the heart that only GOD can give, and the Law NEVER could produce on its own. Only God, Christ.
You say:"I also need the Kingdom vision of NT Wright". NT Wrights version of the kingdom has all evidence pointing it to be not one of personal salvation from penalty of sin for all glory to Jesus alone, but rather an ecumenical spirit of unity with the ways of world. No wonder in Wright's perspective, Biblical creationism as per God's word is exchanged for a form of godless naturalistic evolutionism. We are commanded to test the spirits. There is no other plain example of bad fruit than in the swirling moral and ethical liabilities of Wrights mentee and Biologos founder, Francis Collins.
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Yeah, well... RC Sproul had absolutely no charity for my mentor, Clark Pinnock, whom he deemed anathema, and was on record saying that he was hellbound. Sproul also went after him to oust him from the Evangelical Theological Association. So, RC Sproul might have been charitable and funny with Billy Graham, but he did not exhibit this sort of charity to others. He was a complete jackass. (I have no charity, as you can see...)
This is beautiful! You listed so many of my favorites and I love what attributes you ascribed to each😊
Sadly, I won't get to see either of them. But at least I'll still get to see Jesus. ;-)
Im banking that He'll make his way to the cheap seats.
I’m very encouraged by your insight here Pastor Scott. I too have been impacted in my walk with believers with different perspectives on the non essentials.
Agreed and amen. Leads to the riches Christ promised us.
M. L’Engle said we draw people by displaying “ a light that is so lovely that they want with all their heart to know the source of it.” I don’t agree with her in a lot of areas but this quote has impacted me!
I love this post. Thank you.
Beautifully said Pastor! So needed in the church today…we need to build and encourage each other. Would love to visit your church someday.
Amen and Amen
This is so beautiful. So otherly. So Jesus. Thank you, as always, Scott.
In the subtitle, please change "our" to "are".... Don't want any distractions from all this edifying content! Thank you for standing for unity in the body of Christ