I got the attention of a Calvinist YouTuber – Daily Theology 1689<\/i> – by posting the following comment on his video, “Election is Biblical”:<\/p>\n\n\n
“It’s good to see a Calvinist openly admit they see “faith” as a “work”. (Although Scripture obviously does not.) Most go to great lengths to dance around this.”<\/p>\n\n\n
He chose to engage with me to show me where I was wrong in opposing Calvinism, and before long he was asking me, “What is the gospel?”<\/p>\n\n\n
I replied: “Everlasting life and reconciliation with your Creator has been made available to humanity through the life, death, and resurrection of God’s Son for whosoever believes.”<\/p>\n\n\n
I thought that would rile him up (because of the “whosoever”), but the whole thing threw him for a loop. He next asked:<\/p>\n\n\n
“Do you affirm that God is a Trinity? Jesus is fully God and fully man? What creed or confession do you hold to?”<\/p>\n\n\n
I had no doubt what the answer was for him – it’s right there in his YouTube name: He’s a devotee of the London Baptist Confession of 1689.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
(Those guys apparently got everything 100% correct and there’s been no need for any believers to do any digging or questioning of their own in the past 334 years.)<\/p>\n\n\n
I wrote back, “Yes, Yes, and there’s no particular creed or confession that I pledge allegiance to. Why do you ask?”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n This really got to him:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n “Without a statement of faith it’s difficult to discuss or understand where you are coming from. It may be helpful to write your own statement of faith, affirmations and denials.”<\/p>\n\n\n But you know what? That’s what I am actively avoiding these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n I don’t have a problem with saying something like “Here’s what I currently believe regarding X, Y, and Z theological issues.”<\/p>\n\n\n But I will not tie my identity to any such position.<\/p>\n\n\n And I refuse to equate the affirmation of certain propositions about God – what we casually call “beliefs” – with actual saving belief in Christ<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got the attention of a Calvinist YouTuber – Daily Theology 1689 – by posting the following comment on his video, “Election is Biblical”: “It’s good to see a Calvinist openly admit they see “faith” as a “work”. (Although Scripture obviously does not.) Most go to great lengths to dance around this.” He chose to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}