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To: Jerry_M
I am not hostile at all towards the doctrine of grace. Without it, we would still be burdened by the Old Testament laws.
663 posted on 01/23/2002 10:23:25 AM PST by connectthedots
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To: connectthedots
"I am not hostile at all towards the doctrine of grace."

If you look back, you will see that I mentioned the "doctrines of grace". "Doctrines of Grace" was Charles Haddon Spurgeon's (the guy whose sermon started this thread) description of the truths of Calvinism. However, he went further than that, and said:

I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor.

670 posted on 01/23/2002 10:42:01 AM PST by Jerry_M
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