March 5, 2006
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DOUBTING CALVINISTS — CAN YOU REFUTE THESE 10 VERSES?
1. Doubters receive nothing from God (James 1:7)
2. Those that cannot perceive Jesus Christ in themselves are disapproved (1 Cor 13:5)
3. The Epistles are only addresses to believers. “To the saints and faithful at Ephesus”, etc.. In order for the first Christians to have known the letters were for themselves, they would have had to also have known they were believers.
4. Believers never thirst (John 4:14). But someone doubting their salvation is very thirst indeed.
5. The Lord’s Prayer begins with “Our Father”. In order to pray this, one must know they are a child of God. Since God has given all believers the gift of prayer, all believers must have full assurance.
6. The testimony is that “God has given us”–believers–”everlasting life” (1 Jn 5:11). All believers have this testimony in themselves (1 Jn 5:10). Therefore, all believers know they have everlasting life.
7. There is no such thing as “spurious faith”. There is only ONE FAITH (Eph 4:5), that is, one way of believing the gospel. You either believe it, or you don’t.
8. Faith is belief (see the Gk.) Receiving Christ is simply believing the gospel (Jn 1:12).
9. Saving Faith always amounts to an absolute certainty of mind that what God says about Christ is true. Even the faith of the mustard seed “moves mountains”. In fact, infants believe the gospel. Men are exhorted to enter the kingdom of heaven as they do, implying that infants enter the kingdom of heaven exactly as every man does — when they believe.
10. Abraham was a pattern for the saints. He was “fully persuaded” about what God promised.
Full assurance is the privilege of all believers.
Comments (1)
Hi, Andrew
Thanks for subscribing to my xanga, but I guess it is to pull me into visiting your. So here I am visiting.
After reading some of your post I have noticed that 1.) you often pull the Bible verses out of it’s connect to argue for your view, as it is in this post. Your first verse is about prayer, and not about the assurance of salvation.
2.) You read things into the context of “Calvinist” and distort their views as you did with John Owen; or you have isolated views of people like John Calvin and slander him as to not be a Christian.
3.) You claim to be a “Calvinist” but misrepresent and distort brothers who are not here on earth to defend themselves. Why?
4.) Do you understand that you are teaching and claiming things that make you so out of the ball park with other Calvinist? Example: Are you claiming that you have never doubted your salvation, or are you saying that if a person doubts his salvation, even once, then he could be sure that he was never saved?
5.) Do you have an Elder who have authority over you and give you guidance? I hope that you attend a Christian church that is able to help you.