Question: “You ARE obsessed with calvin and you have a lot to say about macarthur but you also say people WILL NOT be saved if they deny YOUR formula to accept Christ. Isn’t that the same as lordship when you make your formula for salvation and say people WILL NOT be saved if they deny YOUR formula and accept Christ in the way they were taught??”
Answer:
This is not Jesse versus John MacArthur. This is the Word of God versus the word of men.
You have missed the point. I am gravely concerned with people who use Scripture to make salvation something that a person must maintain or earn by their good works. Any message that preaches works must be strongly marked and avoided.
“Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.” (Titus 1:9-11)
MacArthur is one of many Bible teachers who twists the Scripture to make it say something it does not say. My way is not right because it is my way. My way is informed, supported, and backed up by the Scripture. Please, look at this from the lens of reason. Do not make it about me or MacArthur. What does the Scripture say?
Thanks.
“Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.” (Acts 13:38-39)
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.” (John 11:25-27)
“And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” (John 20:30-31)
“He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” (1 John 5:10-13)