"This fresh breaking out of the doctrine of free-will helps on the doctrine of the natural man's pretension not to be entirely lost, for that is really what it amounts to. All men who have never been deeply convinced of sin, all persons with whom this conviction is based upon gross and outward sins, believe more or less in free-will. You know that it is the dogma of the Wesleyans, of all reasoners, of all philosophers. But this idea completely changes all the idea of Christianity and entirely perverts it." ~~ John Nelson DarbyCome to think of it, I vaguely wonder what our Hyper-Dispensational, Arminian "Baptist" Freeper "RaceBannon" (whose contributions to the Pro-Life and Genesis threads I have respected in the past) would think of Darby's soteriology. (Or for that matter, what the ever-so-false-baptist "ForTheDeclaration" would think).
I suppose that they must regard Darby as a "Calvinist son of Satan" who just happened to get his Dispensational Eschatology "right"... Gee, awfully lucky for them; but a pity for that poor, deceived predestinarian JN Darby.
(Just an observational side note, between you and me)
Great Darby quote. What a guy!
Calvinistic Dispensationalism, it just doesn't get any better!