Where Would Primitive Baptists Place the Possession of Eternal Life?
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They hold that the elect of God will all have eternal life in heaven, and rhose who receive Jesus in this life will then also enjoy the temporal blessings associated with Him now in this life, such as the Holy Spirit, peace with God, ability to understand and apply scriptures, praying etc.
Alexander
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Thank you for your response! I understand PBs believe the inheritance of everlasting life, in the sense of duration of days, is obtained by Christ on the cross and actuated in eternity... but what about eternal life in the John 17:3 sense of knowing God the Father and Christ?
PB would see salvation in the samer sense as we would, in that you would have eternal life, but they would see the elect as eternally justified, as they state, would be born as a child of God, and difference is whether receive that truth in this life or the next one.
I would echo what David has said. In some respects the Primitive Baptists are a diverse group. It is easy to over generalize about our Primitive Baptist friends. Most hold to eternal justification.
Primitive Baptists started as a reform group that objected to mission boards, instrumental music, Sunday schools and all para-church agencies. Hyper-Congregationalist, not hyper-Calvinist.
Over time this dispute over proper Church polity morphed into federations that were narrowly focused on sometimes peculiar understandings of the doctrines of grace. Heretical doctrines like two seed in the spirit, and questionable doctrines like eternal justification gained a foothold in some of these federations. Some Primitive Baptists wear the "hard shell" label with pride. Some Primitive Baptists are virtually identical with J. C. Philpot and the Gospel Standard Baptists. Others seem to echo Arthur Walkington Pink at every turn. The Systematic Theologian they almost all turn to is John Gill.
Some Primitive Baptists, like Elder Lassarre Bradley Jr., of the Cincinnati Primitive Baptist Church, are very close to being Reformed Baptists.
Primitive Baptists started as a reform group that objected to mission boards, instrumental music, Sunday schools and all para-church agencies. Hyper-Congregationalist, not hyper-Calvinist.
Over time this dispute over proper Church polity morphed into federations that were narrowly focused on sometimes peculiar understandings of the doctrines of grace. Heretical doctrines like two seed in the spirit, and questionable doctrines like eternal justification gained a foothold in some of these federations. Some Primitive Baptists wear the "hard shell" label with pride. Some Primitive Baptists are virtually identical with J. C. Philpot and the Gospel Standard Baptists. Others seem to echo Arthur Walkington Pink at every turn. The Systematic Theologian they almost all turn to is John Gill.
Some Primitive Baptists, like Elder Lassarre Bradley Jr., of the Cincinnati Primitive Baptist Church, are very close to being Reformed Baptists.
What is interesting is that they would indeed look to John Gill as being the chief author of their ST, and yet most non primitive baptists would really consider him as being more in the reformed Baptist camp.
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