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| Apologists and their misguided hope! |
Hello Apologists out there, if I may inquire:
who are the lost souls whom you believe your apologetics will be instrumental in saving? Are the lost souls still in their state of spiritual deadness, or are they God's children who are not soundly converted?
- I believe you meant the former.
- Do you really believe your apologetics can be instrumental to save such lost souls?
Just who are the lost souls that you hope to lead to the soul-saving gospel of Jesus Christ through apologetics? Are the lost souls still in their state of spiritual deadness, or are they God's children who need the initial conversion to Christ.
- I believe you meant the former.
- Do you really believe your apologetics can lead such to the soul-saving gospel of Jesus Christ?
Have you not read?
John 3:3 "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Q. Will your apologetics be perceived and understood by those still dead in trespasses and sins?
1Co 1:14For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Q. Who will perceive the soul-saving gospel as declaring the power of God in salvation, those that ARE SAVED, or those that are perishing?
1Cor 2:18 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Q. Is your apologetics "things of the Spirit of God" or "things of the wisdom of man"? If the former, then it is irrelevant to the lost souls you are trying to save; it is worse than irrelevant, it is perceived as foolishness, and the peddlers of them foolish.
Why is it so hard to understand that the gospel, the good news of what God HAS DONE to save His people is intended for those who ARE SAVED, i.e. have been saved by God, that they may be converted to the truth of their salvation by God's free and sovereign grace?
Eph 1
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
"The gospel of your salvation" indicates that their salvation has taken place, applied to them by God's free and sovereign grace when they were dead in trespasses and sins, and they are called to believe gospel of their salvation, the truth of what has transpired.
Apologetics is useful to strengthen the faith of Christians.
The SAVED are called to believe the gospel of their salvation; if they have not been saved, there is NO "gospel of your salvation" to preach to them nor any good need for them to believe.
(I was deep into apologetics in my mid-20s to mid-30s. You can't even convince God's children with plain Scriptures; what hope of clever apologists to save those lost souls, i.e., those dead in trespasses and sins?)
