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The Calvinist's Fallacious Reasoning - John Wesley 

12/15/2016

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Calvinists, who deny that salvation can ever be lost, reason on the subject in a marvelous way
They tell us, that...
  • no virgin's lamp can go out; [Matt. 25:1-13]
  • no promising harvest be choked with thorns; [Mk. 4:18-19]
  • no branch in Christ can ever be cut off from unfruitfulness; [Jn. 15:1-6]
  • no pardon can ever be forfeited, [Num. 14:34, Isa. 63:8-10]
  • and no name blotted out of God's book! [Rev. 3:5]

They insist that...
  • no salt can ever lose its savor; [Matt. 5:13]
  • nobody can ever "receive the grace of God in vain"; [2 Cor. 6:1, Gal. 2:21, 5:4]
  • "bury his talents"; [Matt. 25:24-30]
  • "neglect such great salvation"; [Heb. 2:3]
  • trifle away "a day of grace"; [2 Cor. 6:2, Heb. 3:7-15]
  • "look back" after putting his hand to the gospel plow. [Lk. 9:62]
  • Nobody can "grieve the Spirit" till He is "quenched," and strives no more, nor "deny the Lord that bought them"; nor "bring upon themselves swift destruction." [1 Thess. 5:19, Gen. 6:3, 2 Pet. 2:1]
  • Nobody, or body of believers, can ever get so lukewarm that Jesus will spew them out of His mouth. [Rev. 3:16]

They use reams of paper to argue that...
  • if one ever got lost he was never found. John 17:12;
  • that if one falls, he never stood. Rom. 11:16-22 and Heb. 6:4-6;
  • if one was ever "cast forth," he was never in, and "if one ever withered," he was never green. John 15:1-6;
  • and that "if any man draws back," it proves that he never had anything to draw back from. Heb. 10:38,39;
  • that if one ever "falls away into spiritual darkness," he was never enlightened. Heb. 6:4-6;
  • that if you "again get entangled in the pollutions of the world," it shows that you never escaped. 2 Pet. 2:20;
  • that if you "put salvation away" you never had it to put away, and if you make shipwreck of faith, there was no ship of faith there!! [1 Tim. 1:19]

In short they say: If you get it, you can't lose it; and if you lose it you never had it.
May God save us from accepting a doctrine, that must be defended by such fallacious reasoning!
1 Comment
Barrie Brown
5/21/2018 04:27:29 am

So well put! John Wesley was a great man of god!

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