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Straightening this crooked road is a lot easier...

Straightening this crooked road is a lot easier than
straightening the mind of neo-calvinists

Straightening this crooked road is a lot easier than straightening the minds of neo-calvinists

A neo-calvinist accused ignorantly:
"Let me get this straight - you deny that man is responsible to have faith as their duty before they are converted"
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Let me help you to get something straight:
God does not think and act like some misguided and foolish preachers. The Triune God is perfectly consistent and righteous in all His acts.

- God the Father purposed salvation for His elect ALONE before the foundation of the world.
- Christ the Son accomplished that salvation on the cross for the SAME elect.
- God the Spirit applies that same salvation to each individual elect personally at God's appointed and approved time when the elect are still in their native state of sin and death.

No, God DOES NOT OFFER SALVATION to the elect dead in trespasses and salvation. Calvinist preachers as well as their Arminian cousins do such foolish things - offering salvation to their hearers. God UNILATERALLY and SOVEREIGNLY bestows the salvation He has purposed, and which His Son Jesus has accomplished, to each elect personally at His appointed and accepted time, and saved them to the uttermost, fits them for eternal glory.

[This effectual calling that brings an elect out of his native state of sin and death to that of grace and salvation REQUIRES justification, regeneration, and adoption, and the gift of the Spirit of adoption to indwell in him.]

That salvation which God has freely bestowed to an elect, thus enabling him to perform spiritual activities, is experienced through faith in Jesus Christ.

The gospel ministry is appointed to call out God's children, those that ARE SAVED, to believe what has already happened by God FREE grace!

So, let me help you to straighten out your mind: God requires His children, those elect ALREADY SAVED, to BELIEVE the truth of their salvation in Jesus Christ freely bestowed upon them by His free grace.

God does not require those whom He has not saved in Jesus Christ to believe in Jesus Christ. That would make God to require men to believe a lie, thus making God a liar!!!

THIS I AFFIRM...

Only those whom God has saved are called and are responsible to believe Christ... because Christ is their Saviour! They are held responsible to believe the truth... that which is already true!!!

God requires and holds no one to believe that which is not true of them... God's requires and holds no one whom Christ did not redeem to believe Him as their Saviour!

Cowinism - the deformed version of the old school calvinism

A creature of the new school Cowinism!

 Cowinism on Justification

Cowinism's (new school calvinism) understanding of justification repudiates the biblical doctrine of justification as understood and summarized by the old school calvinists.

Robert Basham  quoted the following:

Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of those other graces which do always accompany it, nor of good works that are the fruits of it, nor as if the grace of faith, or any act thereof, were imputed to him for justification; but only as it is an instrument by which he receiveth and applieth Christ and His righteousness" (Westminster Confession of Faith). Though this definition was framed upwards of two hundred and fifty years ago, it is far superior to almost anything found in current literature on the subject. It is more accurate to speak of faith as the "instrument" rather than as the condition, for a "condition" is generally used to signify that for the sake whereof a benefit is conferred. Faith is neither the ground nor the substance of our justification, but simply the hand which receives the divine gift proffered to us in the Gospel...A W Pink http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Justification/just_08.htm

Consider the statement from the quote above:
"... Faith is... simply the hand which receives the divine gift proffered to us in the gospel..."
This reformed shibboleth is full of nonsense and contradictions:

1. The hand that is capable of receiving is the hand of the living!!!
The hand that is capable of receiving the divine gift proffered must be the hand of a child of God, an elect already effectually called out of his native state of sin and death to that of grace and salvation in Christ Jesus (THAT IS, justified, regenerated, adopted, and having the Spirit of adoption dwelling in him!).  One still dead in trespasses and sin, still under the condemnation of sin (i.e. unjustified) and death HAS NO SUCH capability whatsoever!!!

Only a quickened child of God - an elect that has been effectually called out of his native state of sin and death, THAT IS, he is already justified freely by God's grace, regenerated, and adopted, and have the Spirit of God indwelling him, working in him all saving grace - is capable of believing.

2. Nothing is proffered in the gospel.
- proffer |ˈpräfər| verb [ trans. ] hold out (something) to someone for acceptance; offer: he proffered his resignation.
- The gift of salvation is not proffered. God does not proffer salvation to the dead in trespasses and sins. THANK GOD! The gift of salvation is freely applied to an elect personally in the effectual call by God while the elect was still in his native state of sin and death.  The spiritually dead are in enmity against God. No offer will do the dead in trespasses and sins any good. It is repugnant to even think that God would proffer anything to the elect dead in trespasses and sins! Deluded preachers do!
- The preaching of the gospel announces the good news of the salvation already accomplished and applied by God's free grace in Jesus Christ, and God's children (those elect already effectually called) are called to believe the truth of their salvation. They are called to believe what is already true of them - and believing the truth of their salvation SAVES them from lies, errors, fables, and superstitions, etc, and the temporal consequences of such evils.
- "... in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation..." Eph 1:13.

3. Faith DOES NOT justify a sinner; God alone justifies a sinner, a man still under the just condemnation of sin.

Faith justifies a believer - believing vindicates, demonstrates, evidences, certifies, etc) that he has been justified by God freely based solely on the finished work of Christ.
Heartbeats certify, demonstrate, vindicate the presence of life, that the dead has been resuscitated!
"The hand that receives ..." evidences that SALVATION HAS BEEN BESTOWED, FREELY when there was deadness and enmity and rebellion! Otherwise, it is a fist in defiance against God!

Faith is an effect of justification, an effect of justification evidences the cause, justification by God's free grace. That's what WCF clearly states. Take off your coloured glasses, and read it again.

4. An old baptist (John Gill) said this of faith and its relation to justification:
"Faith is not the cause, but an effect of justification; it is not the cause of it in any sense; it is not the moving cause, that is the free grace of God; "Being justified freely by his grace", (Rom. 3:24) nor the efficient cause of it; "It is God that justifies", (Rom. 8:33) nor the meritorious cause, as some express it; or the matter of it, that is the obedience and blood of Christ, (Rom. 5:9, 19) or the righteousness of Christ, consisting of his active and passive obedience; nor even the instrumental cause... it is not in any class of causes whatever; but it is the effect of justification..."

He said, "... faith is not the cause of it in any sense... nor EVEN the instrumental cause... it is not in any class of causes whatever; BUT it is the effect of justification..."

Faith is NOT the cause of justification in any sense: all possibilities are painstaking EXCLUDED: whether moving cause, efficient cause, meritorious cause, or the popular instrumental cause invented by degenerated and diseased Cowinism!!!

See the unbridgeable difference between Cowinism and the historic gospel of salvation by grace?

Take a look here for the doctrine of justification summarized by old school baptists!!!
http://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-doctrine-of-justification-as.html

New and Old - see the unbridgeable difference?

New and Old - the unbridgeable difference.

What is the role of faith in your salvation?

https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10201138322875669
Dec 11, 2013

A new school calvinist quoted another:
"If salvation is of grace, as the Scriptures so clearly teach, it cannot be of works, whether actual or foreseen. There is no merit in believing, for faith itself is a gift of God. God gives His people an inward working of the Spirit in order that they may believe, and faith is only the act of receiving the proffered gift. It is, then, only the instrumental cause, and not the meritorious cause, of salvation. What God loves in us is not our own merits, but His own gift; for His unmerited grace precedes our meritorious works. Grace is not merely bestowed when we pray for it, but grace itself causes us to pray for its continuance and increase."

The new calvinist he quoted says... "it is, then, only the instrumental cause, and not the meritorious cause, of salvation...."

An old baptist (John Gill) said this of faith,
"Faith is not the cause, but an effect of justification; it is not the cause of it in any sense; it is not the moving cause, that is the free grace of God; "Being justified freely by his grace", (Rom. 3:24) nor the efficient cause of it; "It is God that justifies", (Rom. 8:33) nor the meritorious cause, as some express it; or the matter of it, that is the obedience and blood of Christ, (Rom. 5:9, 19) or the righteousness of Christ, consisting of his active and passive obedience; nor even the instrumental cause... it is not in any class of causes whatever; but it is the effect of justification..."

So, one new school calvinist says:
"... faith is only the instrumental cause of salvation..."

And an old school baptist said,
"... faith is not the cause of it in any sense... nor EVEN the instrumental cause... it is not in any class of causes whatever; BUT it is the effect of justification..."

See the unbridgeable difference?

Faith is the effect of the salvation bestowed freely. An effect of salvation CANNOT be in any sense be a cause of the salvation in any way!!!

An effect of the salvation bestowed freely CANNOT be in any sense in any class of causes whatsoever for the same salvation.

Faith is indeed an instrumental cause of temporal salvation, which is very different from the eternal salvation ALREADY bestowed freely by God's grace alone when an elect was dead in trespasses and sins.

New school calvinists like are either ignorant or incapable of distinguishing eternal salvation bestowed by God's free grace, and the temporal salvation conditioned upon the obedience of God's children to their Father's will. This is why they come up with the monstrous idea of faith as the instrumental cause of eternal salvation.

Let it be repeated:
"Faith is not the cause, but an effect of justification; it is not the cause of it in any sense:
- It is not the moving cause, that is the free grace of God; "Being justified freely by his grace", (Rom. 3:24)
- Nor the efficient cause of it; "It is God that justifies", (Rom. 8:33)
- Nor the meritorious cause, as some express it; or the matter of it, that is the obedience and blood of Christ, (Rom. 5:9, 19) or the righteousness of Christ, consisting of his active and passive obedience;
- Nor even the instrumental cause... it is not in any class of causes whatever; but it is the effect of justification..."

Faith is NOT the cause of justification in any sense: all possibilities are painstaking EXCLUDED: whether moving cause, efficient cause, meritorious cause, or the popular instrumental cause!!!

See some exchanges on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10201138322875669

Minor Disregard, Major Disaster

Minor Disregard of a Plain Fact,
Major Disaster to a Divine Order

In his "A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith" Dr Robert L. Reymond discussed the "order of salvation" in Chapter 19, pg 703ff. (I read from the 1st edition)

He quoted Rom 8:28-30, and rightly interjected verse 30 with these emphases:
- [τούτους, toutous - the same group he predestinated, not another group or part of that group]
- [τούτους, toutous - the same group he called, not another group or part of that group]
- [τούτους, toutous - the same group he justified, not another group or part of that group].

I will insert the repeated emphases in verse 30 (I'm quoting from the KJB..

 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them[τούτους, toutous - the same group he predestinated, not another group or part of that group] he also called: and whom he called, them [τούτους, toutous - the same group he called, not another group or part of that group] he also justified: and whom he justified, them [τούτους, toutous - the same group he justified, not another group or part of that group] he also glorified.

Then he went to great length to demonstrate and justify the LOGICAL order of effectual calling, justification, and glorification. All very good!!!

However, he failed ABYSMALLY to see the PLAIN and OBVIOUS implications of his own repeated observations above... that the object of all those divine activities is not only CO-EXTENSIVE but also the SAME and COMPLETE number of God's elect, i.e. as many as were foreknown and predestinated to eternal glory. All those divine activities apply equally to absolutely every elect of God, without any exception.

Failing to note this plain and obvious truth, the order of salvation he constructed in the rest of the whole chapter is full of self-contradictions and inconsistencies.

Breaking up that 5-link divine chain of the pure gold of Ophir, and adding all those other links of wood, hay and stubble is not only foolish, it also destroys that chain, and would cut off an untold number of those foreknown and predestinated from ever reaching their destined glorification!!! Those links added to the chain are plainly INCAPABLE the embracing the complete number elect of God. If a Calvinist doesn't see this plain point, then he has a bigger problem to deal with!

UNTIL the reformed and calvinistic theologians begin to distinguish clearly the eternal salvation by the monergistic activities of God from the DISTINCT temporal salvation through the obedience of God's children to God's will, they will forever be stuck in the mire of confusion and synergistic salvation.

Until they realize that there are FIVE DISTINCT aspects of salvation, they will always be plagued with confusion and contradiction.



Take a look at these short articles on the same subject:
Messing up Romans 8:29-30 and Ordo Salutis!
http://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2010/10/messing-up-romans-829-30-ordo-salutis.html

Some Plain Observations from Romans 8:29-30
http://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2012/09/some-plain-observations-from-romans-829.html

Romans 8.29-30: Save yourself from some lies
http://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2010/11/romans-829-30-save-yourself-from-some.html