https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10215880412378693
March
9, 2020
How
I wish Owen's statement is true!
Don't
you, Parents, Elders, Reverends, Doctors of Divinity, etc.?
What
if I say, "Health, wealth, and
happiness are the inseparable fruits, effects and consequence of
conception"? Well, I concede that an exceptional few will say, "of
course!" The rest will politely inquire, "which planet did you come
from?" 🙂 😮
When
the greatest minds fail to distinguish the eternal salvation by God's free and
sovereign grace from the temporal salvation through the working (with fear and
trembling) of His children, they INEVITABLY end up making false and erroneous
statements.
"Justification,
regeneration, adoption, and glorification are the inseparable fruits, effects,
and consequence of election" is the truth.
Romans
8
30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called,
them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
(Dr
John Owen was probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Puritan
theologians.)
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Victorio
Moises De Guzman
True
indeed.
Dhong
Ejnar Rue
It
appears then that " faith, obedience and holiness" fall on the realm
of temporal salvation.
Sing
F Lau
Dhong, though
faith, obedience and holiness are made possible through the application of
eternal salvation at the effectual calling, they are conditioned upon the
effectually called (i.e. God's children) working out their own salvation with
fear and trembling.
Election doesn't guarantee those wonderful virtues.
Dhong
Ejnar Rue
Sing
F Lau - Yes,
I agree. Regenerate children of God are empowered to do God's will but they
need to use that power. It is willful and active obedience to God.
Reggie
Lee
Wow!
John Owen got it wrong!!! How disappointing! I love this guy, too! Man that
sucks.. oh well... Nevertheless, I still love me some John Owen
