Hyper-Calvinism by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Hyper-Calvinism
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-10-12T05:00:00+00:00

V. Perseverance of the Saints

We now come to the last point, the "perseverance of the saints," or some give it as "predestination." This time Calvin hit it right. The word predestination is a Bible term and, even though he got it wrong both times it occurred, at least he recognized that the truth was there. For example, the word "predestination" only occurs two times in your Bible and neither time is it a reference to an unsaved man. The word "predestination" occurs two times in your Bible and neither time is it a reference to a man getting saved. (One more time!) The word "predestination" occurs two times in your Bible and not a single time does it ever refer to the destination of an unsaved man before receiving Christ or the time of conversion of a saved man when he received Jesus Christ. That is, the term "predestination," as Calvin found it, he could not apply to the truth, so we may take the fifth point and throw it out also on the grounds that Calvin didn't know what he was talking about. The term "predestination" occurs one time in your Bible in Romans 8:29. Read it. It occurs the next time in Ephesians 1:5. Read it. Ephesians 1:5 and Romans 8:29. Notice in neither context is anybody talking about anybody getting saved. The verses where they occur in both contexts have no reference to an unsaved man receiving Christ, an unsaved man going to hell or the time of conversion of a saved man, one of the elect. Calvin simply didn't know what he was talking about.

We may say that back in the days of Martin Luther and Zwingli and Bucer, Calvin was a "precious shining light in his day" and gave a lot of light where it was needed and, thank God, he was anti-Catholic in some of his beliefs. That was his redeeming feature. He was anti-Catholic in some of what he believed. As far as his treatment of heretics was concerned and as far as his prophetical teachings were concerned, he was a Roman Catholic from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head. The term "predestination" only occurs in regard to a man who was already saved (Eph. 1:5), where when a man received Jesus Christ, his destination is to be adopted as a child of God (which Old Testament saints were not), and when he receives Jesus Christ he is predestinated to be conformed to the image of Christ (which the Old Testament saints were not).

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