Elder Jim Fulmer - Shoal Creek Primitive Baptist Church
Primitive Baptists believe men are born in sin. The apostle Paul, in Ephesians 2:1 said, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” Dead, in this verse, means a corpse. As we all know, a corpse can not respond to any kind of stimulus. Webster’s Dictionary explains stimulus: “This word may be formed on the root of stem, a shoot. Literally, a goad; hence, something that rouses from languor; that which excites or increases action in the animal system, as a stimulus in medicine; or that which rouses the mind or spirits; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.”
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Posted by Jim Fulmer on March 12, 2012 at 5:41 pm under Articles from Elder Jim Fulmer.
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Elder Jim Fulmer - Shoal Creek Primitive Baptist Church
Limited Atonement or Particular Redemption is a truth the Bible teaches. Atonement means “satisfaction, or expiation given for an injury or wrong.” In Adam, every man had through his rebellion, wronged His Maker. Satisfaction had to be made. A price had to be paid, or no one could be saved. The atoning death of our Lord Jesus Christ made satisfaction to God; it paid the price, and ransomed all for whom Christ died. For how many did Christ die? As many as the Father gave Him. (John 17:2) “ As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.”
Two things are at the heart of this issue: (1) Did Christ die for the sins of all men, or for all of the sins of some men? (2) Did the blood of Christ have real saving power, or just the potential to save?
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Study By: J. Hampton Keathley, III, David Joins Saul’s Family Copyright ©1996-2006 Biblical Studies Press, reprinted from http://bible.org
In the study of bibliology it is important to be aware of the various attitudes people either have or with which they approach the Scriptures. We will divide these attitudes toward the Bible into six different categories.
(1) Rationalism. The philosophy behind rationalism is “The theory that the exercise of reason, rather than the acceptance of empiricism, authority, or spiritual revelation, provides the only valid basis for action or belief and that reason is the prime source of knowledge and of spiritual truth.”7 The rationalistic approach toward the Bible may be extreme or moderate.
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Posted by Jim Fulmer on March 12, 2012 at 5:39 pm under Articles from Elder Jim Fulmer.
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Elder Jim Fulmer - Shoal Creek Primitive Baptist Church
This year is an election year. Registered voters will have the right, based on our country’s constitution, to freely choose who they want to be our nation’s leaders. Most everyone can understand this kind of national election.
God has an election, too; however, it is not of a national kind. God’s election is one concerning salvation. Before the beginning of the world, He chose certain individuals to be saved.
We might ask, “Why does God have the right to choose whom He saves?” I answer; because God is sovereign. What exactly does that mean?, it means that God is God. That no one has the right to tell God what He can or cannot do. .” God is sovereign, which means, He does what He pleases, when He pleases, where He pleases, and with whom He pleases. Psalm 115:3 tell us , “But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.”
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