tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005239162890190041.post6832620320768662811..comments2022-04-18T04:14:02.312+08:00Comments on Thrown Scabbard: Whitefield on Free GraceBernard Rosariohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332343437243990852noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005239162890190041.post-79585436268697414592010-09-21T22:24:01.383+08:002010-09-21T22:24:01.383+08:00All Under Sin
The mention of "the just"...<b>All Under Sin</b><br /><br />The mention of "the just" or "the righteous" or "them that are right in heart" does not in any way debunk total depravity. It does not establish anything that says they have something in them that is not consumed by depravity. Nothing from all these texts (classified under "some mention") says the just's being just and righteous are inherently from themselves. With these verse, the farthest we can go is to affirm that there are fools and there are just. But where did these get their righteousness? "Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness" (Psa. 5:8).<br /><br />Besides, this longest chain of OT references is not to be excluded from the foundation statement preceding it "all under sin."Bernard Rosariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10332343437243990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005239162890190041.post-4246063750973387432010-09-21T20:13:16.275+08:002010-09-21T20:13:16.275+08:00There is No One Righteous
"As it is written...<b>There is No One Righteous</b> <br /><br />"As it is written: There is not any man just... (Rom. 3:10-18). <br /><br />These verses are twisted by Reformers to support their doctrine that Man is totally depraved, incapable and uninterested in seeking after God. <br /><br />But what about the Reformers' premise? It is decidedly destroyed when one considers that in almost every Psalm quoted; Ps. 14:1-6, Ps. 53:1-6, Ps. 5:4-10, Ps. 140:1-12, Ps. 10:3-12, Ps. 36:1-10, there is <b>some mention</b> of "the just," "the righteous," "them that are right in heart," and so on. <br /><br />How can the Psalmist be saying that there is literally no one who is righteous, who seeks after God, when he then goes on to use phrases like, <i>"But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance,"</i> and <i>"For the Lord is in the just generation?"</i> <br /><br />The Reformer must concede that he has utterly missed the point of St. Paul's argument, and that he has done what St. Paul would never do: wrenched Old Testament texts out of context.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.com