no question, preaching what people want to hear has always been a great marketing tool. Easy believism brings in the big crowds, it’s a cash cow. Charles Stanley, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Charles Ryrie, and Zanes Hodges are all on-board with New Calvinism’s Antinomianism. The idea of works, of necessity, accompanying salvation is a lie to them. They claim Christ can be your Savior without being Lord (to be obeyed). Even if a person makes a confession of faith and later turns renouncing Christ he will be saved anyway. Talk about easy. We do nothing. So many love it!
I’ve got Charles Stanley’s book ETERNAL SECURITY here to give a few quotes. It says on the back cover his First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist) in Atlanta, Georgia has 15,000 members. I can only imagine the big cow budget.
See if these quotes from ETERNAL SECURITY have any similarity to the New Calvinsim:
p 90 “Think About It. If my faith maintains my salvation, I must ask myself, “What must I do to maintain my faith?” For to neglect the cultivation of my faith is to run the risk of weakening or losing my faith and thus my salvation. I have discovered that my faith is maintianed and strengthened by activities such as the following: Prayer, Bible Study, Christian Fellowship, Church Attendance, and Evangelism. If these and similar activities are necessary to maintian my faith, and the maintenance of my faith is necessary for salvation – how can I avoid the conclusion that I am saved by my good works?”
p 103 “The doctrine of eternal security is supported by the belief that God is so infinitely holy and good that there is nothing – not one thing – we can do to attain or maintain our salvation. … God’s holiness is so far out of our league that even the best of our good deeds carries no weight in matters of salvation….
People who want to do away with eternal security based on the argument that a sinning Christian is so offensive to the holiness of God that he cannot be tolerated both elevate the works of man and depreciate the holiness of God. How? By introducing into the salvation model the neccessity of good works to maintain one’s salvation….
Once good works are introduced in any fashion as part of the salvation process, we are assuming a similarity in the moral goodness of man and God. In doing so, God becomes less separate or holy than in the salvation model where man’s works had nothing to do with salvation. To introduce man’s holiness is to de-emphasize the holiness of God. To speak of man’s moral efforts in conjunction with God’s moral perfection is to lessen the contrast and thus downgrade God’s holiness.”
p 119 “Our works have nothing to do with where we spend eternity. But they have a lot to do with what we can expect once we get there.”
To me, Stanely uses the New Calvinist deceptive talk. This confusion has entangled so many in our day. Unfortunately, these guys are very popular in the Southern Baptist Denomination. I think they all ought to be mowing lawns instead of preaching from pulpits.
Paul's Passing Thoughts 
Paul,
no question, preaching what people want to hear has always been a great marketing tool. Easy believism brings in the big crowds, it’s a cash cow. Charles Stanley, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Charles Ryrie, and Zanes Hodges are all on-board with New Calvinism’s Antinomianism. The idea of works, of necessity, accompanying salvation is a lie to them. They claim Christ can be your Savior without being Lord (to be obeyed). Even if a person makes a confession of faith and later turns renouncing Christ he will be saved anyway. Talk about easy. We do nothing. So many love it!
I’ve got Charles Stanley’s book ETERNAL SECURITY here to give a few quotes. It says on the back cover his First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist) in Atlanta, Georgia has 15,000 members. I can only imagine the big cow budget.
See if these quotes from ETERNAL SECURITY have any similarity to the New Calvinsim:
p 90 “Think About It. If my faith maintains my salvation, I must ask myself, “What must I do to maintain my faith?” For to neglect the cultivation of my faith is to run the risk of weakening or losing my faith and thus my salvation. I have discovered that my faith is maintianed and strengthened by activities such as the following: Prayer, Bible Study, Christian Fellowship, Church Attendance, and Evangelism. If these and similar activities are necessary to maintian my faith, and the maintenance of my faith is necessary for salvation – how can I avoid the conclusion that I am saved by my good works?”
p 103 “The doctrine of eternal security is supported by the belief that God is so infinitely holy and good that there is nothing – not one thing – we can do to attain or maintain our salvation. … God’s holiness is so far out of our league that even the best of our good deeds carries no weight in matters of salvation….
People who want to do away with eternal security based on the argument that a sinning Christian is so offensive to the holiness of God that he cannot be tolerated both elevate the works of man and depreciate the holiness of God. How? By introducing into the salvation model the neccessity of good works to maintain one’s salvation….
Once good works are introduced in any fashion as part of the salvation process, we are assuming a similarity in the moral goodness of man and God. In doing so, God becomes less separate or holy than in the salvation model where man’s works had nothing to do with salvation. To introduce man’s holiness is to de-emphasize the holiness of God. To speak of man’s moral efforts in conjunction with God’s moral perfection is to lessen the contrast and thus downgrade God’s holiness.”
p 119 “Our works have nothing to do with where we spend eternity. But they have a lot to do with what we can expect once we get there.”
To me, Stanely uses the New Calvinist deceptive talk. This confusion has entangled so many in our day. Unfortunately, these guys are very popular in the Southern Baptist Denomination. I think they all ought to be mowing lawns instead of preaching from pulpits.
Arkansas Bill
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….but mowing lawns is work too.
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