Featured Norm Geisler teaches Pelagianism?

1) Calvinism teaches man has no capacity to seek God and receive the gospel. False. The second, third and fourth soils of Matthew 13 were seeking God and received the gospel.

Yes election can be humbling, but God tells us that he has chosen some by Grace entirely apart from merit or even ability to receive grace, so pride will be eliminated.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (King James Version)

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

 

Say what :laugh:

 

Who else has it been given to pray tell?

 

I find him a stick in the mud to....and sneaky. He was invited to a conference that the Presbyterian RC Sproll was having & unbenonced to Sproll, he got on the podium and started preaching Credo Baptism (knowing full well that most of the audience was Pedo/infant baptism believers.

 

But he is devious.

 

http://www.normangeisler.net/KnowGod/09-RighteousnessFromGod.html

http://www.normgeisler.com/articles/theology/2010-EpigeneticsSolvesTheologicalProblems.htm

 

For what its worth, and not that this will make sense to some who love polarizing positions, but those who don't hold to Reformed theology are not, automatically semipelagians. Though the moniker gets cast on too many who disagree with Reformed theology, the truth of the matter is that almost no one believes in semipelagianism and no one (with a few notable exceptions) believes in Pelagianism.

These are all misinformed ad hominem attacks that seek to discredit someone without actually engaging with them.

To be a semipelagian, one must hold to a view of salvation that is still beyond syngerism and focuses on man's will contravening God's will.

For more information and an adequate Baptist understanding of semipleganism please read: http://sbctoday.com/2012/06/07/semi-pelagianism-a-plea-for-clarity-and-charity/

 

From CBF, Appendix 12, page 294.

 

Please provide the quote of Dr. Geisler which says man can redeem himself, and faith is not a gift given to the elect.

 

Thanks for posting this.

 

Is anyone going to provide proof that Norman Geisler is a semi-Pelagianist? Short of proof all that is left is gossip.

 

If we define semi-Pelagianist as: To be a semipelagian, one must hold to a view of salvation that is still beyond synergism and focuses on man's will contravening God's will.

Using that definition, the quotes I provided "prove" Dr. Geisler is not semipelagian.

Since Norm believes in the doctrine of "illumination" he puts the horse before the cart, i.e. God provides the needed help from the get/go, unlike semi-Pelagian doctrine.

 

According to The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2nd edn), the semi-Pelagianism of the 4th and 5th centuries “maintained that the first steps toward the Christian life were ordinarily taken by the human will and that Grace supervened only later.”

 

That is right, and so since Geisler believes in the doctrine of illumination, where God is involved prior to any step by man, the charge of semi-Pelagianism is shown to be false and slanderous.

 

Semipelagianism was declared heresy by the Second Council of Orange (529).