The Calvinism Debate - Way of Life Literature

is verse mentions God’s elect but it does not say anythingabout “sovereign election.”1 essalonians 1:3-5--“Remembering without ceasingyour work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hopein our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and ourFather; knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also inpower, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as yeknow what manner of men we were among you for yoursake.”Again, this verse says the brethren in the church atessalonica were elected of God but it does not anythingabout “sovereign election.” One has to read that into thepassage.1 essalonians 5:9--“For God hath not appointed us towrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.”Arthur Pink says, “To say that God ‘hath not appointed usto wrath’, clearly implies that there are some whom He has‘appointed to wrath’...” (e Sovereignly of God, p. 98).is “interpretation” is made by reading things into theverse that aren’t there. at God has not appointed us towrath does not mean that He has appointed some to wrath.is is simply a promise that the believer will not be subjectto the wrath that will be poured out in the Great Tribulation(1 ess. 5:1-3). is is the wrath that is in view. ere is nota hint in this passage that God has sovereignly chosen somesinners to reprobation and judgment.2 Peter 2:12--“But these, as natural brute beasts, made tobe taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that theyunderstand not; and shall utterly perish in their owncorruption.”Arthur Pink says, “Clearly, it is that ‘these’ men as brutebeasts, are the ones who, like animals, are ‘made to be takenand destroyed’...” (e Sovereignty of God, p. 99).108