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| To usurp, and substitute the life-giving eternal divine Person, the Word of God, with anything else is treasonous and blasphemous!!! |
Be careful what you believe... it may not only be treasonous and blasphemous to God, but also damns some of God's elect!!!
To replace and substitute the life-giving eternal divine Person, the Word of God, with anything else is a treasonous and blasphemous usurpation !!!
Here is a classic example...
Chapter 10 Of Effectual Calling (WCF)...
"1. All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ: ......... 2. This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from any thing at all foreseen in man..."
The statement on effectual calling above OBVIOUSLY APPLIES to EVERY SINGLE ELECT without any exception - "all those whom God has predestinated unto life," i.e. to grace and salvation in Jesus Christ. This has to be admitted by all sound mind.
The NEO-calvinists insist that "His Word" refers to the written or preached word of God.
It can't possibly be the written word for the simple reason that there was a long period when there was no inscripturated word of God. If the divine activity of effectual calling is dependent upon the written word of God, then God is neutered and render impotent to effectually call His elect in the absence of that written word! The idea is blasphemous.
It can't possibly be the preached word for the simple reason that in paragraph 3, the Framers specifically stated that some among the elect, those included in paragraph 1 above, are INCAPABLE of being called out by the ministry of the word, either because they don't have the mental capacity or the opportunity to be called out by the ministry of the word.
So to insist that "His Word" refer to the ministry of the word very SIMPLY and PLAINLY repudiates the truth stated in paragraph 1. The Framers were theologians as well as LOGICIANS, unlike the prejudiced and woolly-headed men who read their statements.
If the effectual call is indeed dependent upon the written or preached word, then ALL ELECT without exception would be effectually called to grace and salvation through that instrument; then there would NOT be a single elect that is not called through that instrument! But paragraph 3 plainly states that there are those elect who are incapable of being called out by the ministry of the word, whether because of inability or lack of opportunity, are damned by that fable! Such interpretation make the authors of the WCF to appear like idiots! I rather take the neo-calvinists as idiots, and not the author of the WCF. Damning God's elect - those who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word, and THEREFORE cannot be effectually called by the Triune God to grace and salvation, and thus left in their native state of sin and death - is no small matter, isn't it?
The neo-calvinists would retort, "But they are exceptional cases, not the norm!" This statement openly contradicts the truth plainly stated in paragraph 1 - there is no such nonsense as the "normal" or the "exceptional" way in God's effectual calling of each elect. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." SO IS EVERY ONE THAT IS BORN OF GOD.... this is the only way. There no such fable as the ordinary, and EXTRAordinary way in the effectual calling of the elect out of his native state of sin and death.
An error always requires more errors to cover its exposed and ugly butt!
The PLAIN and OBVIOUS meaning of "His Word" is simply this: "God, His Word and Spirit" constitute the THREE PERSONS of the Triune God. The divine work of effectually calling the elect out of their native state of sin and death to that of grace and salvation - that is, a work NEW CREATION - requires the divine and sovereign and harmonious activities of all the THREE PERSONS of the eternal Godhead.
To replace and substitute the life-giving eternal divine Person, the Word of God, with anything else is treasonous and blasphemous!!! That's what the Devil loves to see... the eternal 2nd Person of the Triune God, the life-giving Word being substituted!
Why are so many so addicted to their fable of gospel regeneration, that there must be the written or preached word in the effectual calling to grace and salvation - which requires justification, regeneration and adoption, and the gift of the Holy Spirit to dwell in the elect?
Do you know why? Tell us!
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