Published on 05-10-2011 11:40 AM
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by Tom Wacaster
Among the many false doctrines that have occupied the minds of men is that of the necessity of the direct operation of the Holy Spirit upon the heart of an individual in order to procure salvation. Such are the fruits of Calvinism. Once you adopt John Calvin’s doctrine of election, the outgrowth of such false doctrine is the necessity of God to somehow operate directly upon those who have been “predestined” to salvation so as to “get them saved.” It is what the Quakers and Pentecostals refer to as a “religious experience.” David Lipscomb, in “The Life and Sermons of Jessie Sewell” demonstrated the absurdity of relying upon a spiritual experience for one’s assurance of salvation. It seems that a fair, honest working famer of remote Tennessee had come in contact with brother J.J. Trott, a gospel preacher. This famer had just returned from a “revival” where
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