Well if one can be elect in eternity, then one could be justified in eternity. Existence has no bearing on our election, or our sin in Adam.
Hi Joe,
Can one be glorified in eternity too? Why not if one can be justified apart from even being born of flesh and blood? Can one be forgiven without repentance and faith? What is justification after all?
Before you were made alive in Christ, when you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience, had you received the reconciliation? If so, then why the call of God to be reconciled? How can one be alienated from the life of Christ yet be in Christ?
I would recommend a great little book called Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray. In fact, I have two copies so if you pm me with your address I’ll mail you a copy that you can keep.
I was taught that Spurgeon considered John Gill a "hyper-Calvinist." Using my computer, I checked every reference that Spurgeon ever made in print about John Gill. There is not a single inference by Spurgeon that Gill was a hyper-Calvinist.
"Gill is the Coryphaeus of hyper-Calvinism, but if his followers never went beyond their master, they would not go very far astray."
Charles H. Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries: Two Lectures Addressed to the students of The Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle, by C. H. Spurgeon, President. London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1890.
Joe don't use them their big words on a Monday ya making my brain hurt. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/bash.gif" alt="" />
And for those of you in the cheap seats Coryphaeus is the leader of the greek choir. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/bananas.gif" alt="" />
Peter
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo
