A few years ago Brother Stephen shared an article in which
the author stated that in order to see things the Primitive Baptist way, you
had to put on a certain pair of glasses.
I don’t know if this brother realizes just how true his statement
was. For the benefit of our readers, I
thought I would share some of the “rules” I myself used to follow when I taught
the regeneration and optional gospel conversion heresy. This list is probably not exhaustive, but is
probably the main ones I used to decode the scriptures so to speak. I think it
pretty safe to say that this is how many of my former friends tend to think.
If a gospel command is given, presume the audience is “already
regenerated”.
Whatsoever occurs after regeneration is unnecessary and
therefore optional.
If a condition appears in a text where eternal salvation is
under consideration, then make the condition a subconscious one.
If the condition cannot be made a subconscious one, then
presume the salvation is of a temporal nature.
If a condition appears in a text where eternal salvation is
under consideration, then presume there must be two kinds of that condition taught
in scripture: one subconscious, necessary, and a gift received in the new birth,
whereas the other is conscious, unnecessary, and earned by works after the new
birth.
If a salvation text contains a verb where men are seen doing
something to be saved, then presume the salvation is of a temporal nature.
If you analyze these you will notice that each of them actually
stem from a broader underlying, unbiblical premise, which is the idea that the
subjective experience of salvation may be divorced from the objective fact of
it.
I do not believe these anymore, thank the Lord.
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