Subject: Can we loose our salvation |
Bible Note: Hank, Here is a paragraph that I think is not well reasoned with scripture: "There is one idea which has occurred to us. It has struck us as a singular thing, that our friends should hold that men can be converted, made into new creatures, then fall away and be converted again. I am an old creature by nature; God creates me into a new thing, he makes me a new creature. I cannot go back into an old creature, for I cannot be uncreated. But yet, supposing that new creatureship of mine is not good enough to carry me to heaven. What is to come after that? Must there be something above a new creature—a new creature. Really, my friends, we have got into the country of Dreamland; but we were forced to follow our opponents into that region of absurdity, for we do not know how else to deal with them." http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0075.htm He seems to forget that though we are new creatures in Christ, we still have the old nature that is not dead yet. He also sees no distiction between: A. Sin, confrontation, repentance B. Sin, confrontation, nonrepentance Pastor Glenn |