The Calvinism Debate - Way of Life Literature

thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit ofgrace?” (Heb. 10:29).Either this verse means that a saved person can lose hissalvation, or it means that a person can come close to beingsaved without actually being regenerated and can then turnaway finally from salvation by rejecting the efficacy of theblood and the gospel of grace. We believe that it teaches thelatter. In our church planting ministry we have seen manyHindus and Buddhists attend church services and purchaseBibles and look eagerly into the things of Christ and evendesire to be baptized and publicly testify that they believedthe gospel only to finally turn away and to return to humanreligion and idolatry and to renounce the blood of Christ andsalvation by grace. ese were not sanctified in the sense ofsalvation, but they were sanctified in the sense of having beenenlightened and convicted by the Spirit and in the sense ofhaving professed to believe in the covenant or gospel of grace.is verse contradicts the Calvinist doctrines of LimitedAtonement and Irresistible Grace. At the least this versesteaches that the blood of Christ was available to them forsalvation but that they rejected it.JESUS REBUKED THE CITIES OF ISRAEL BECAUSETHEY DID NOT REPENT -- “en began he to upbraidthe cities wherein most of his mighty works were done,because they repented not. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woeunto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which weredone in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they wouldhave repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I sayunto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon atthe day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum,which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down tohell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee,had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until thisday. But I say unto you, at it shall be more tolerable forthe land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than forthee” (Matt. 11:20-24).58