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MRS. MARJORIE BOND 1505 Scotland Street Calgary, Alberta October 5, 1959 Dr. C.D. Cole 746 W. Noel Rt. 2 Madisonville, Kentucky Part 9 My Dear Dr. Cole: 2. There are passages like John 3:16; I John 2:2 which seem to teach that Christ died for every individual. However, the word “world” rarely ever means every […]

746 West Noel Madisonville, Kentucky October 20, 1959 Mrs. Marjorie Bond 1505 Scotland Street Calgary, Alberta Canada My Dear Mrs. Bond: Greetings in the Name of His whose Name is above every name! Your good letter under date of the 5th, was duly received. And it could not have reached me at a busier time, […]

4b) REPRESENTATIVE PREACHERS AND WRITERS! John A. Broadus, former president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: “From the divine side, we see that the Scriptures teach an eternal election of men to eternal life simply out of God’s good pleasure.” A.H. Strong, former president of Rochester Theological Seminary: “Election is the eternal act of God, […]

Objections Considered and Answered Many are the objections brought against this doctrine. Sometimes the objectors are loud and furious. Alas! that so many of these objectors are in Baptist ranks. To preach this old-fashioned doctrine of our faith as did Bunyan, Fuller, Gill, Spurgeon, Boyce, Broadus, Pendleton, Graves, Jarrell, Carroll, Jeter, Boyce Taylor and a […]

Part 5 The Doctrine Defined, Explained and Proved What is election as the term is used in the Bible? Election means a choice–to select from among-to single out-to take one and leave another. If there are a dozen apples in a basket and I take all of them there has been no choice; but if […]

Part 4 Some False Views Examined and Refuted Many professing Christians really have no view of election. They have not given it enough thought and study to even have any opinion about it. Many have erroneous views. We shall notice some of them. 1. The view that men are elected when they believe–This view is […]

Part 3 4. Election does not prevent the salvation of anybody who wants to be saved. But the distinction needs to be made between a mere desire to escape hell and the desire to be saved from sin. The desire to be saved from hell is a natural desire–nobody wants to burn. The desire to […]

Part 2 General Remarks to Disarm Prejudice There is no doctrine so grossly misrepresented. Brother A.S. Pettie’s complaint against the enemies of total depravity is equally applicable here, when he says, “From hostile lips a fair and correct statement of the doctrine is never heard”. The treatment that the doctrine of election receives from the […]

Election! –What a blessed word! What a glorious doctrine! Who does not rejoice to know that he has been chosen to some great blessing? Election is unto salvation–the greatest of all blessings. And strange to say, this is a neglected truth even by many who profess to believe it, and others have a feeling of […]

Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Proverbs 6:22, 23 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and […]

“And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them of who it is witnessed that he liveth” (Hebrews 7:8).      This verse announces the strongest appeal in all the Bible on tithing; it makes it a matter of loyalty to Christ. That strikes a responsive note in the heart of lovers of Jesus […]

The Way of Salvation, in Scripture Verse by John Flave Since Adam was created just and good, that is to say, holy, righteous and immortal; and dominion given him over all the creatures which God had created; and whereas he did not long remain in this state, but has through the subtlety of the Devil […]

 “For by the law is the knowledge of sin” (Romans 3:20).       “Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins” ( Acts 5:31).       “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto […]

True prayer is- an inventory of needs, a catalogue of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. While prayer is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. I believe that the most healthy state of a Christian is to be always empty, and always depending upon […]

There are two books I have tried to read, but I have not got through the first page yet. The first is the book of my own ignorance, and emptiness, and nothingness- what a great book is that! It will take us all our lives to read it, and I question whether Methuselah ever got […]