Initially posted here:
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"For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of
God"?
This is such a plain and simple declaration
by the Apostle Paul. However, the wise and prudent - the elitist Calvinists and
their despised cousins Arminians - don't get its plain sense and continue to
hold on to their cherished fable, the fiction of gospel regeneration, i.e.
their gospel preaching is a necessary instrument for the Spirit to effect His
work of regenerating the dead.
CAN'T you see that such a notion is completely
repudiated by the Apostolic statement,
"For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of
God"?
The gospel preaching comes to two distinct
groups of people: "them that perish" and "us which ARE
saved."
"Us which are saved" are there
FIRST, gospel preaching is brought to them. Don't you get that? And because
they ARE SAVED, they perceived the gospel of Jesus Christ as declaring the
power of saving them.
The same glorious gospel is perceived as
foolishness by the other group; the simple and plain reason is that spiritual
things are spiritually discerned, and except a man be born again, he cannot see
spiritual things.
This is as plain as day BUT the gospel
regenerationists insist that they are preaching the gospel to those dead in
trespasses and sins - i.e. "them that perish" - and as they preach,
the Holy Spirit uses their preaching to regenerate their hearers; they are
instrumental in the regeneration of those dead in trespasses and sins. Give
themselves a pat on the back!
They are not content with the lofty role of
converting those already saved, by God's free grace, to the truth of their
salvation.
Who has bewitched them??
