WHAT IS WRONG WITH
SALVATION BY ELECTION?

Prov. 14:12
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death."

Introduction
  1. At fellowship meeting one time I asked a Baptist preacher,
    whose name I have forgotten, except they called him
    'Steve,' "When were you saved?"   After much hesitation
    he said, "I never was lost, I was saved in eternity by
    ELECTION.   I have always been saved."
  2. In the "Baptist Examiner", July 21, 1962, a sermon by A.W.
    Pink was printed which says, "You were lost before you
    were born into the world in the same way GOD'S ELECT
    WERE SAVED BEFORE THEY WERE BORN by virtue of
    their union to their COVENANT HEAD."     (cp.mine)
  3. If that theory be true, then the elect were never lost - never
    a child of the devil; never in danger of going to Hell when
    they die.   Jesus said, (Lu. 19:10) "For the
    Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."
  4. If they were saved then, they were saved without
    repentance and faith, and as Pink says, THEY WERE
    SAVED BY ELECTION.       But Christ died for the lost.

I
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LOST?
  1. Those who are not saved; not children of God.   They are
    the children of wrath; already condemned, shall be
    damned, they will land in Hell when they die.   Children of
    the devil (John 8:44).
  2. Some refer to the "lost," elect, as lost sheep, which means
    they are children of God, and are never lost to the extent
    that they are in danger of going to Hell when they die.
    They will not die in their sins, and be condemned.   They
    have just strayed away.
  3. Those who believe in the security of the believer, believe
    that a child of God may stray away, back slide and wander
    far in sin, but is never in danger of going to Hell, but in
    danger of the chastisement of God.
  4. Those who believe that the elect were saved by election in
    eternity, teach that they are just as saved, if they wander
    away, as a believer, if they stray or wander off in sin, but
    never in danger of being finally lost in Hell.
  5. The lost that Jesus came to seek and save will go to Hell at
    death, (Lu. 16:23; Psa. 9:17).   "The wicked shall be turned
    into hell    [.]"   "Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
    depart from me, ye that work iniquity."       [Mt. 7:23]
    "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
    for the devil and his angels:"     [Mt. 25:41]
  6. The lost are the "UNJUST" and will be resurrected with
    the unjust, and be cast into Hell after the judgment of the

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lost, because they rejected Christ as their personal Saviour
while they lived (John 3:18).   "he that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God."   "there shall be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust."   (Acts 24:15)

II
WHAT IS WRONG WITH SALVATION BY
ELECTION?
  1. There are many things wrong because, first, it is
    unscriptural.   The Scriptures have been perverted to mean
    what they do not say in order to support this theory.
  2. Another thing wrong is the origin of this theory.   For a
    further study of this subject, see the book, ELECTION
    MADE PLAIN, Hyper-Calvinism Exposed, by Ballard and
    Rippetoe.
  3. The doctrine of absolute predestination of all things, was
    first taught by a man named Zeno, founder of the
    celebrated school of the Stoics.   He lived in the 3rd Century
    before this era (362-364 B.C.).   He taught at Athens in a
    public porch. (Myers ANCIENT HISTORY, Page 338.)
  4. Notice, it did not start with Moses and the prophets but
    with Zeno, a teacher in a school.
  5. In Acts 17:17-19, we read where Paul disputed with the
    STOICS.   They called him a "babbler" because they said
    that he set forth strange gods, "because he preached
    unto them Jesus, and the resurrection    ."
  6. The Stoics believed that everything was determined by
    fate.   That everything was predestinated by God.
  7. The Pharisees also believed in the absolute predestination
    of all things. (Josephesus History, Book Two, Chapter 8).
    They thought they were children of God because of the
    promises God made to Abraham (John 8:33-41).
  8. Up to this time we see that the people who taught this
    doctrine had no connection whatsoever with the true
    church.   They were unbelievers in Jesus Christ and His
    resurrection, yet they thought they were children of God
    by election.
  9. The Pharisees believed in a God, and in salvation by
    election, and believed they were children of God.   They
    said, "we have one Father, even God."   "Abraham is
    our father."       But they did not believe in Jesus as their
    Saviour.   Jesus said unto them, "if ye believe not that I am he,
    ye shall die in your sins"     (John 8:24).

III
THIS DOCTRINE WAS FIRST
TAUGHT IN THE CHURCHES
  1. BY AUGUSTINE, who was a Catholic Bishop of the
    Catholic Church on the coast of Africa.
  2. Since he was the first man to FORCE INFANT BAPTISM,
    and at that time infant baptism was at high tide, so his
    doctrine on election, did not gain much ground.
    (Mosheim's History [Lut.], Page 2, Chapter 4, Section 5 and 6).
  3. Orchard in his History of the Baptist Church, refers to

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    Augustine as the discoverer of Absolute predestination,
    and quotes Mosheim.
  1. Another reason why this doctrine did not gain much
    ground then, was that Augustine taught that the non-elect
    infant that died went to Hell.   Several years later (in
    Fifteenth Century) John Calvin polished up this theory,
    ....

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    SAVED BEFORE THEY WERE BORN."
  1. Let us check and see how your views on the doctrine
    compare with these questions.

QUESTIONS

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IV
THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION IS A
BEAUTIFUL DOCTRINE WHEN PROPERLY
UNDERSTOOD

V
NAME WRITTEN IN BOOK OF LIFE

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    "Blood of the prophets shed FROM THE FOUNDATION
    OF THE WORLD"

ARMINIANISM
  1. Some who believe like
  2. But it is

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    John Calvin, not by Christ and the apostles.

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SUMMARY

By
ERN. RIP.

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