By branching off my Facebook friend list I eventually come
across the page of a “Primitive” Baptist elder.
In a discussion which ensued from one of his postings, this comment was
made:
“In fact, PBs are the
FEW MINOR REMNANT of the Elect Family out of every (nation – KF)- Rev. 5:9.
Mat. 7:13-14”
There you have it! Unmistakable
proof that Conditionalist Hardshells
feel themselves to be the elite from all the rest of the regenerated community!
This statement is cultic. All other regenerate souls may constitute God’s
elect children, “eternally speaking” (to borrow their language), yet they only
comprise a special inner circle. The
remnant within the remnant! Only they walk
the straight and narrow into temporal life here on Earth! Every other Christian is on the temporal road to destruction!
If I could think of a word stronger than heresy, I would use it.
This statement is contradictory. At times, Hardshells can be found speaking of their beloved time salvation as if it is OF the Lord. Hence, you will find them using the expressions temporal elect, the elect within the elect, or as in this case, few minor remnant, in order to denote those who they would say have been saved in time. Most of the time, however, they refer to it as something NOT OF the Lord, and that the child of God must do this for himself! What a contradiction! Labeling “Primitive” Baptists as God’s temporal elect or some similar expression is language which,
obviously, raises the subject of God’s decree. It assumes that time salvation
is the product of God’s election!!! But this contradicts their usual manner of
explanation that time salvation is
the effect of the free-will of those said to be “already regenerated”! So which one is it? Is time
salvation the effect of God’s election as hinted at when the expressions timely elect or the elect
within the elect are used? Or is it the
result of free-will, in that we must “save
ourselves from this untoward generation”?
I have noticed this contradiction for years now.
This statement discourages
a desire for growth. The smaller the congregation and the lesser number of churches, the more evidence that we are the only ones! Sad.
This statement lastly raises
a very interesting question. If time salvation is gained only by PB
Conditionalists, then what do we call the experience of a so-called regenerated
person who hears and believes the gospel as preached by anyone other than a
Hardshell minister? If it wasn’t
regeneration and it wasn’t true conversion, then what is it? Obviously he experienced some kind of change.
But what do we call that change? Are
there two kinds of time salvation?
1 comment:
Dear Kevin:
I enjoyed this posting. You really uncloaked the Hardshells and put them on the hot seat. I hope they read it, come under conviction for their grievous error, and repent.
Blessings,
Stephen
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