Matthew 13:1-23 speaks of four soils, this passage addresses the first soil, not the other three. And what is laughable is the "become callous" emboldened" in the post. The bogus doctrine teaches the lost are conceived or born in the fallen condition which includes total spiritual inability. However, the very passage cited above teaches we lose what we had to become unable to respond. Thus it teaches the opposite of the bogus doctrine!!!
Two questions Van can not resolve.
One, WHO is the owner of the soil, the determiner or the nutrient ability of the soil and what will be relegated to being good, shallow, rocky?
Two, WHAT is the ONLY soil in which the seed had the nutrients and was sustained until harvest?
See, Van neglects that 3rd grade science demonstration that shows the seed has life in itself.
The child takes the plastic zipper lock sandwich bag, puts a couple tablespoons of water in the bag, staples across a third from the bottom, and a seed above the staples. Zipped and hanging in the classroom windows.
Soon the roots appear, and even the stalk and leaf, but there is no life sustaining ability, and soon the seed has no capacity to thrive.
Nope.
Modern science even shows how wrong Van is, far more the Scriptures are not found in agreement with him.