Thanks, Frank, I appreciate the opportunity to hear your responses to Question #7A and Question #7B. Both are important.
You say, "Those who have repented and will repent are those for whom Christ intentionally and specifically died on the cross; those who do not repent were never atoned for because they are condemned for sin. Christ never died for those who would never repent." You also plainly assert that you have repented and therefore are one for whom Christ died.
Does this not place your ultimate confidence in yourself and your repentance rather than in the objective Word of God? And how can you help but not doubt your salvation, as your faith depends upon something you do? Also, how can you take any confidence from your observable fruits when they are always going to be imperfect? This does not seem to me to be salvation by grace alone.
My question -“How do you, Frank Turk, identify and know with certainty that you have fulfilled this requirement of "repentance"?”
Pastor Wood
You say, "Those who have repented and will repent are those for whom Christ intentionally and specifically died on the cross; those who do not repent were never atoned for because they are condemned for sin. Christ never died for those who would never repent." You also plainly assert that you have repented and therefore are one for whom Christ died.
Does this not place your ultimate confidence in yourself and your repentance rather than in the objective Word of God? And how can you help but not doubt your salvation, as your faith depends upon something you do? Also, how can you take any confidence from your observable fruits when they are always going to be imperfect? This does not seem to me to be salvation by grace alone.
My question -“How do you, Frank Turk, identify and know with certainty that you have fulfilled this requirement of "repentance"?”
Pastor Wood
This is centuri0n, aka Frank Turk, who has been an internet apologist for about 10 years and has never really gained anything for himself through it but a handful of friends and a lot of ill-will. Most people, honestly, do not like to argue with him because he doesn't know how to let it go. He's a blogger of some minor note, and he's a "calvinist".
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