Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-08-20
Asks Lots OF Questions.
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Waterman some questions III regard /
10 eternal salvation, rs these old fOgy |
Hardshells are getting numerous ont |
here and are becoming such pest 10 |
me-. | want to ask these questions and |
| want Bro ''Watchman' To put on |
his studying cap, so can by his help |
keep them off Of me for | gre he is
well up on the old hardshell doctrine. !
| want him 10 post me well in regard |
To what / ask. / see that you believe |
after sinner, or goat, does some !
thing 10 cause the Lord to do this, he
converts the sinner, or As some call
them, goats into a sheep. Are all
sinners reckoned as goats and all
christians as sheep Is Watch
man" converted from goat to a
Sheep Say what would You ad-
wise me in regard to God having a
people that never heard the preached
gospelg How are they to be saved?
Was he not speaking of the gentiles
when he said, "Other sheep | have,
which are not Of this fold - We're
the gentiles converted when the Saw
Jour said, Them l must bringr"
Did Jesus come to seek and save that
which was lost, or did he come to seek
anu OlLtI W SAVE IL bll6g WOulu hdNO
faithg Did Christ die for all sinners
Just alike, or does the bible say lie gave
his life for the sheep, while You claim
that they could change themselves
| from goats" to "sheep." Now,
Waterman" please give verse and
chapter so can read this, for can
horn those old hardshels bad with
this.
Were the gentiles converted when
Jesus said that he "must bring themT
| Now, if they were sheep before con-
verified they were dead sheep, were they
noty Then, if they were dead or lost
sheep, which comes first, the spirit or
faith If faith comes first, it is dead
faith, isn't it, The spirit comes first,
he has life before faith, doesn't heP
OF course he has to have life before he
can act towards belief, don't he1 But
that don mean that he is saved does
it, Then can he lose that life and be
eternally lost? Now, | don't want to
get you confused but if ''goat" or
sinner, Just believes it is a sheep, or a
saint that makes it one, does it notI
'Watchman' do you teach total de-
pravity, free moral agency and final
perseverance? Yes, but how can you
get these three tenets all on the same
platfOrm2
"Watchman" do you preach? Is it
right for you to preachY If you did
not think so, you would quit, would
you mott Is your preaching a work
Is it righteous work. Have any sin
ners been eternally saved by your
preaching Now, if you did not think
so you would quit and join those old
, fogy hardshells, would you notY Then,
if so, they are saved by works Of
Righteousness, which you have done,
are they not2 Now, | don't want tC
get you confused, but if you can t ans
wer these you need not, for if you
were to get confused and join those ole
, hardshells, you never could do any
thing for the Lord, and would wait fol
him to do for you first Does God de
sire eternal salvation for all men. L
so, will all be externally saved? Now
} if Christ desires them and the devi
4 wants them, the one that has the mos
a power will get the ones that he wants
will be notY Did Christ make a salts
; factory atonement for all the sins o
t all the people If so, will all receiv
t the benefits of that atonementY If not
e why not? Now, if this gets you con
fused and you can't answer, you nee(
g not, but will you affirm in joint de
l bate that Christ offers spiritual life OF
condition of faith to be exercised b,
/ an alien sinner? Does the bible say b
K gave his life for the goats or the sheep
n Now how are our actual sins to b
! RENTED, for since there is no remis
u sion without the shedding of blood cal
Il a sinner believe with an impure heart
If not, who prepares the heart, God o
g the sinner Does not God change til
g heart from an impure to a pure hear
! and that too, before beliefY Did yo
= say Christ died for everybody tn
q same Did he die for those that wer
o dead when he died just the same a
n those that were living? Did he die flo
Abraham and Dives just the same
, Oh, Abraham had faith and Dives di
not so he did not die for them jus
b alike in that sense, did her Then h
{ must have died for Abraham becaus
o he was faithful and Dives because h
i was not? Oh, Dives did not hav
faith Then what did be have? VIVA
was the cause, since the death, yo
say, for both was Just the sameY | Sc
6 his death did not have the same effeC
: on both Just alike May be that h
died for Abraham because he wa
righteous. The old fogy bardshel
out here won have that and | want [
know Just how it is They say he di
not come to die for the righteous bu
: for sinners.
!. Now, "Watchmaa," have you hear
IS your people speak of the Woman's All
|. Association? Is it an organization {
V the sisters for the purpose of adm
e and forwarding the Lords work. Di
3 Sarah, Abraham's wife, belong t
e that Woman's Aid Society Now
e what makes me think so, you remen
o Der the Lord promised her a son, an
y she got in hurry for the Lords wor
" to be completed and got Abraham I
Ie take Hagar to wife so she could aid tn
If Lord in his work, did she not? So 81
20 raised the son for Sarah, did she moi
.e Now, if Abraham had exercised fait
o just right, that boy of Hager's woul
If have been all right would it not?
,e Now, "Watchman'' | will close an
Ie | want you to get your answers to N
IT Just as soon as possible, for | am j
If haste and eager to get them.
a Now, friends and old schoolmates,
+ don't aim to and hope this will NJ
NJ touch you in the least, and it is Onl
n intended that we may exchange view
J. and profit thereby. | also have son
"a questions for Representative" Nov
all come on with 0pO1 uipcps and Il