First of all a little about me... I was raised Primitive Baptist and though I and my brethren don't hold to all points of Calvinism as we differ in some application of the points I am 4th generation PB that I know of.
My question to my Calvinist brethren is this we find many coming from the Arminian brethren to the Calvinist. Many have been in Arminian Churches and left them and became Calvinist or of the reformed brethren. I myself as far as eternal salvation was concerned was balanced on the edge of Arminian/Calvinism. Surely there was something I needed to do to obtain eternal salvation?... I mean Jesus did his part when he died for me but where was my part?
That is when the light went on... The Son Of God was sent by God from Heaven to pay for the sins of his people... All the Father had given him!... Your part was because you could not appease an offended Holy God in Adam that Jesus died for you. You had nothing he wanted because you were dead in tresspasses and in sin and utterly corrupt... Body... Soul... And Spirit!... Not one spark of goodness in you... It was all of God... All of grace... All of love... All of mercy... And all of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Then and only then did I understand my Eternal Salvation... Then and only then did I understand the scripture... That there is a rest to the people of God... I still work out my own salvation with fear and trembling... For it is God the worketh in you both the will and the to do according to his good pleasure... But not my eternal salvation as that has been paid for me 2,000 years ago on Golgotha's Hill by Jesus The Christ!... To my Calvinist and Primitive Baptist brethren when did you come out of the Arminian snare and embrace the truth as it is in Christ Jesus and what caused your transformation?... Brother Glen
[ January 21, 2003, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: tyndale1946 ]
My question to my Calvinist brethren is this we find many coming from the Arminian brethren to the Calvinist. Many have been in Arminian Churches and left them and became Calvinist or of the reformed brethren. I myself as far as eternal salvation was concerned was balanced on the edge of Arminian/Calvinism. Surely there was something I needed to do to obtain eternal salvation?... I mean Jesus did his part when he died for me but where was my part?
That is when the light went on... The Son Of God was sent by God from Heaven to pay for the sins of his people... All the Father had given him!... Your part was because you could not appease an offended Holy God in Adam that Jesus died for you. You had nothing he wanted because you were dead in tresspasses and in sin and utterly corrupt... Body... Soul... And Spirit!... Not one spark of goodness in you... It was all of God... All of grace... All of love... All of mercy... And all of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Then and only then did I understand my Eternal Salvation... Then and only then did I understand the scripture... That there is a rest to the people of God... I still work out my own salvation with fear and trembling... For it is God the worketh in you both the will and the to do according to his good pleasure... But not my eternal salvation as that has been paid for me 2,000 years ago on Golgotha's Hill by Jesus The Christ!... To my Calvinist and Primitive Baptist brethren when did you come out of the Arminian snare and embrace the truth as it is in Christ Jesus and what caused your transformation?... Brother Glen

[ January 21, 2003, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: tyndale1946 ]