He teaches that the quickening of the Spirit precedes and alone makes possible faith in Christ. The work of the Spirit in quickening' the one dead in sins precedes faith in Christ, just as cause ever precedes effect. We answer, the new birth. There is absolutely no warrant in Scripture for stating that quickening precedes faith, or that one born again before believing in Christ. The exact opposite is the teaching of the Word of God.
Scripture always presents life as the result of faith.
Hear and your soul shall live. Although hotly denied by its advocates, the ultra calvinistic views propagated by Pink inevitably stifle concern for the lost, and stultify evangelistic and missionary effort. Or the Philippians believers Phil. It is just such reckless distortion of Scriptures that has brought the study of the types into disfavor. Arthur Pink either drastically changed his views regarding the covenants or else he writes in a most contradictory fashion.