In a book critiquing Reformed soteriology, Ronnie Rogers provided us
with the following footnote:
Regarding unconditional
election and selective regeneration, the non-elect really cannot be saved even
though they hear “whosoever will may come.” Calvinists often emphasize that it
is not something to be talked about with the unsaved. For example, Lewis Sperry Chafer says, “The entire theme concerns those only who are regenerated
and should never be presented to, or even discussed in the space of, the
unsaved.” Systematic Theology, vol.
3,172. (Ronnie W. Rogers, Does Love All or Some? Comparing Biblical Extensivism
and Calvinism's Exclusivism [Eugene, Oreg.: Wipf and Stock, 2019], 49 n. 23)
In other words, unconditional election and reprobation (regardless of
whether it is active or passive in the theology of the Calvinist) is something
that, according to Chafer, should not
be discussed with a non-believer. Imagine if a Latter-day Saint said such:
critics would, as they do with our temple ceremonies, cite such as evidence of
the “cultic” nature of “Mormonism.” Well, what is good for the goose is good for the gander: such shows the perverse nature of Calvinism and how many of its apologists know, deep down, it is evil.
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