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"There's a pretty helpful explanation of spiritual deadness in this section." — May 12, 2018 03:45PM
"There's a pretty helpful explanation of spiritual deadness in this section." — May 12, 2018 03:45PM
Old heresies and arguments against Christianity have a habit of reappearing long after they have been thought dead. Somebody has commented that most objections to the faith were voiced by Celsus (who was relentlessly answered by Origen).
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“While these ‘five points of Calvinism’ reveal a growing interest in predestination among Calvinists, they were drawn up to protect what the Calvinists believed were important truths denied by the Arminians. They were never intended to be a summary of Calvinist belief or Calvin’s own thought.”
― The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
― The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
“When we are duly apprized of our absolute dependence upon him and of our obligations to him as our Creator, Benefactor, and Lawgiver, sin will appear exceedingly sinful, and will bring a burden upon the conscience, which can only be removed by faith in the Redeemer.”
― Memoirs of the Life of William Grimshaw
― Memoirs of the Life of William Grimshaw
“The Atonement is scouted, the inspiration of Scripture is derided, the Holy Spirit is degraded into an influence, the punishment of sin is turned into fiction, and the resurrection into a myth, and yet these enemies of our faith expect us to call them brethren, and maintain a confederacy with them!”
― Documents from the Downgrade Controversy
― Documents from the Downgrade Controversy
“Perfectionism is impossible in the presence of a deep sense or a profound conception of sin.”
― Studies in Perfectionism
― Studies in Perfectionism
“But some embraced Arminian sentiments, while others professed to take a middle path, and called themselves Baxterians. These displayed, not only less zeal for the salvation of sinners, and, in many cases, less purity or strictness of life, but they adopted a different strain in preaching, dwelt more on general principles of religion, and less on the vital truths of the gospel.”
― Documents from the Downgrade Controversy
― Documents from the Downgrade Controversy
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