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Mike Jeshurun
Let me start by saying that those who try to buttress their views
by quoting men like Spurgeon or even Calvin are wasting their
time. Spurgeon for the most part was a half-baked Calvinist who
tried to please both parties. Little wonder he had thousands
attending his Church. And Calvin’s inconsistencies are well
known to those who have bothered to study his Institutes.
Historically speaking, the so-called "Doctrines of Grace" -
which go by the nickname of Calvinism - did not originate with
Calvin. They were there in the scriptures long before Augustine
or Calvin came along; and were clearly understood and received
by all of God’s elect both under the Old and New Testaments.
Oh but “God made man in His own image” and when He got
done He saw and said that it was good! That is right ignoramus,
but the man that God created in His own image corrupted
himself by sin! And in corrupting himself he corrupted his
progeny, so that what he brings forth is as sinful as him!
Have you not read – “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty
years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and
called his name Seth”! [Gen 5:3] Not in the image and likeness
of God, but in his fallen image and likeness! Who can bring a
clean thing out of an unclean? not one. How can he be clean
that is born of a woman? Behold the stars are not pure in his
sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man,
which is a worm”? [Job 25:4-6]
Have you considered O vain man that the only reason that
babies are sometimes born deformed and some die in infancy is
because they are guilty of the original sin?! If according to your
delusion they were born ‘righteous’ and are not sinners till your
so called ‘age of accountability’ then they should not die in
infancy as some do! Only the wages of sin is death, but death
hath no power over the ‘sinless’ (baby)!
Here is a quote from A.A. Hodge –
“The guilt of Adam's public sin," says Dr. A. A. Hodge, "is by a
judicial act of God immediately charged to the account of each
and every one of his descendants from the moment he begins to
exist, and antecedently to any act of his own. Hence all men
come into existence deprived of all those influences of the Holy
Spirit upon which their moral and spiritual life depends . . . . and
with an antecedent prevailing tendency in their natures to sin;
which tendency in them is itself of the nature of sin, and worthy
of punishment. Human nature since the fall retains its
constitutional faculties of reason, conscience and free agency,
and hence man continues to be a responsible moral agent. Yet he
is spiritually dead, and totally averse to and incapable of the
discharge of any of these duties which spring out of his relation
to God, and entirely unable to change his own evil dispositions
or innate moral tendencies, or to dispose himself to such a
change, or to co-operate with the Holy Spirit in effecting such a
change."
These sheep are those who respond when the gospel is preached.
“My sheep hear My voice”. These sheep are the ones who were
foreknown to God, were predestined, called, justified and shall
soon be glorified. When the gospel is preached many do not
respond. Ever wonder why? Chew on this verse and may be if
you are one of His sheep God may open your eyes – “and as
many as were ordained to eternal life believed”! [Act 13:48]
Now wait a minute, I thought only those who opened the door of
their heart and ‘accepted’ Jesus as their personal savior were
saved! Well you thought wrong, sir! If anyone’s going to open
their heart to ‘let Jesus in’ it has be the Lord Jesus Himself!
“And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the
city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart
the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were
spoken of Paul”. [Act 16:14]
You have said - “There is not one shred of evidence in the Bible
for double or single predestination”.
Indeed there shall no evidence be found by many for the
doctrine of predestination, because in order to find it you have to
first of all be His sheep. “But ye believe not, because ye are not
of My sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear My voice!
Everyone who is of the truth heareth My voice! [John 18:37]