Regeneration? Even if Paul Washer Can’t See It, He can See Where It’s Not
Even if Arminian Southern Baptists can’t agree with Calvinist Southern Baptists about regeneration being before faith, or about regeneration being purchased for the elect by Christ, they can still all unite in faith that the Jesus who died for everybody and the Jesus who died only for those who are saved are in the end one and the same Jesus.
Because in the end, it’s not the death that matters. It’s regeneration, and most of us think we can see that! And even if Paul Washer doubts that you personally are regenerate, at least we all can see that those who teach a non-Lordship gospel are not yet regenerate.
With Paul the Apostle (not the Washer), I want to say something in my sarcasm: “then let the knife slip, cut the whole thing off”.
Or this, praising the true and only Jesus: “But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has died to me, and I have died to the world.” Galatians 6:14.
Walk by this rule.
Tags: discipleship, Lordship salvation, Paul Washer, regeneration. solas, the cross alone
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March 27, 2011 at 2:25 am
Arminians and Calvinists seem to find common ground in a gospel which a. does not talk about election at all and b. which focuses on sovereign regeneration rather than understanding Christ’s death. Christ’s death for the elect does not merely make possible regeneration; Christ’s death for the elect makes it a necessary matter of justice to Christ that these elect will be regenerated.
I object to Paul Washer’s message for many reasons, not only because he does not link the new birth as a result (not a condition) of Christ’s death, but also because he judges regeneration by a visible moralism he uses to measure what he calls “holiness”. But we are not holy by means of the works God causes us to do. The justified elect are set apart by the blood, by the death of Christ, not by their doing more than the next guy.
August 1, 2011 at 11:11 pm
I too notice this. Washer focus seems to be on what God does in the sinner rather than what He did outside of the sinner. Come to think of it, in his Ten Indictments message, Washer insists that the issue is not Calvinism/Arminiamism (in other words definite, effectual atonment vs. general, ineffectual atonement) but regeneration.