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Mr R C
Sproul preaches a salvation based upon
an absolute condition that must be met by the UN-saved (dead in trespasses and sins)
in order
to be saved.
And he
still gives lip service to salvation by grace alone!
Watch the short video clip here:
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Mr. R.
C. Sproul is a theologian loved and revered by many reformed and calvinistic
folks.
In the video clip, he betrays his inconsistencies and contradictions in his understanding of
the doctrine of salvation by God's free and sovereign grace. He advocates a
CONDITIONAL salvation, with an ABSOLUTE CONDITION!
What is
worse is that he is oblivious to it, something so typical of the high-minded
calvinists.
On the
issue of God's love for all men, I express the same issue in this simple
manner: there is the general love of God as Creator to all His creatures, and
there is the particular love of God as Redeemer to all His elect. There is no
common grace; grace is particular, in Jesus Christ alone.
But take
careful note of what he also said...
"He
[God] placed an absolute condition by which He requires - He doesn't just
invite people to come to Christ - He commands men everywhere to repent of their
sins and to come to Christ."
"...
if you want to enjoy that love of complacency, you have to be in
Christ...."
Mr.
Sproul says, there is an absolute condition, a condition that God requires of
men, and which men must meet if they are to be loved complacently by God.
May I
ask, how is that absolute condition to be met by men (not yet loved
complacently by God) who are dead in trespasses and sins?
How,
Sir? Don't your followers ask simple questions like this? Also, what has
happened to your doctrine of the total depravity of natural men?
What
must a man (who is outside of Christ, therefore still in his native state of
sin and death) do in order to be in Christ and to enjoy God's love of
complacency?
Is Mr
Sproul a preacher of conditional salvation? Just asking.
My
understanding:
God,
freely and sovereignly, WITHOUT condition, vitally unites us to Christ while we
were dead in trespasses and sins when He freely and effectually call us out of
our native state of sin and death to that state of grace and salvation in
Christ Jesus and makes us vital beneficiaries of His electing love.
ONLY
then He commands us, through the ministry of the word, to believe the truth of
our salvation by His free grace in Jesus Christ. He calls us to believe WHAT IS
ALREADY TRUE, what He HAS DONE freely and sovereignly. Those whom He has freely
and sovereignly loved complacently are commanded to believe the truth of that
redemptive love in Jesus Christ proclaimed in the gospel.
Repenting
and believing in Jesus Christ is an effect and evidence of God having loved us
redemptively. [Mr's Sproul's "complacently"] in Jesus Christ.
NO
CONDITION, Mr. Sproul!
p/s
Mr.
Sproul, a typical Calvinist, fails to distinguish the eternal salvation that is
without condition, and the temporal salvation that is conditioned upon the
obedience of His children doing His will.
The
eternal salvation relates to the activities of the Triune God in turning an
elect, dead in trespasses and sins, into a child of God. In this, a man is
completely passive. A man MUST BE SAVED by God first before any command can be
obeyed. Eternal salvation must be freely bestowed FIRST before there can be any
obedience in any evangelical sense. The doctrine of total depravity DEMANDS
that! "Except a man be born again he CANNOT..."
The
temporal salvation relates to the spiritual well-being of God's children
through their active obeying and doing the will of their Father in Jesus
Christ, that is, meeting the conditions laid down by the Father for them. That
is the salvation that they must work out for themselves through their active
obedience. Believing and repenting are in this category; only God's children
are capable of believing and repenting.
