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发帖数: 3781 | 1 by Dave Hunt
Yes, man is totally unable to contribute one iota to his salvation. It does
not then follow, however, that he therefore cannot receive the salvation fre
ely offered in Christ. It is confusion at this point which creates the doctr
ine of Total Depravity and leads to the remainder of the Five Points. Spurge
on labored under no such delusion.
Calvinists gladly cite Spurgeon for support. There is no doubt that Spurgeon
often declared himself to be a Calvinist, but he frequently made statements
which contradicted pure Calvinism. The following from a British scholar who
thoroughly knew Spurgeon's writings and sermons must be considered to under
stand him fully:
Charles Haddon Spurgeon always claimed to be a Calvinist .... His mind was s
oaked in the writings of the Puritan divines; but his intense zeal for the c
onversion of souls led him to step outside the bounds of the creed he had in
herited. His sermon on "Compel them to come in" was criticized as Arminian a
nd unsound. To his critics he replied: "My Master set His seal on that messa
ge. I never preached a sermon by which so many souls were won to God .... If
it be thought an evil thing to bid the sinner lay hold of eternal life, I w
ill yet be more evil in this respect and herein imitate my Lord and His apos
tles."
More than once Spurgeon prayed, "Lord, hasten to bring in all Thine elect, a
nd then elect some more." He seems to have used that phrase often in convers
ation, and on his lips it was no mere badinage. With its definite rejection
of a limited atonement, it would have horrified John Calvin .... The truth s
eems to be that the old Calvinistic phrases were often on Spurgeon's lips bu
t the genuine Calvinistic meaning had gone out of them.
J.C. Carlile admits that "illogical as it may seem, Spurgeon's Calvinism was
of such a character that while he proclaimed the majesty of God he did not
hesitate to ascribe freedom of will to man and to insist that any man might
find in Jesus Christ deliverance from the power of sin. “43
Scripture repeatedly states that man is dead in sin and in bondage to sin, t
hat his heart is desperately wicked, that his thoughts are evil from his you
th, and that he is a rebel against God by nature and practice. There is no s
tatement, however, that he is depraved as defined by the "T" in TULIP. No ma
tter how bleakly the Bible presents the evil of the human heart, never does
it teach Calvinism's peculiar Total Depravity. That will be seen more clearl
y as we move on to the other four points of Calvinism and contrast them with
Scripture. | R*o
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: by Dave Hunt
: Yes, man is totally unable to contribute one iota to his salvation. It does
: not then follow, however, that he therefore cannot receive the salvation fre
: ely offered in Christ. It is confusion at this point which creates the doctr
: ine of Total Depravity and leads to the remainder of the Five Points. Spurge
: on labored under no such delusion.
: Calvinists gladly cite Spurgeon for support. There is no doubt that Spurgeon
: often declared himself to be a Calvinist, but he frequently made statements
: which contradicted pure Calvinism. The following from a British scholar who
: thoroughly knew Spurgeon's writings and sermons must be considered to under
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