Magma2
Puritan Board Sophomore
I forgive you Joseph. I know you think I have wrongly accused Wilson of teaching a false gospel, but the evidence against him is irrefutable. It is Wilson who is in real need of repentance. Yet, in spite of the mounting evidence against him he grows more and more resolute and determined in the face of his many critics. You must agree that Wilson is in fundamental agreement with FV and the Auburn Avenue theology and has continued to further their collective agenda as one of their chief and most capable defenders. That´s why you should seriously and prayerfully consider this change of heart from Calvin Beisner:
If you really believe that salvation is by belief alone - plus nothing, you need to see that Wilson does not and that while he wraps himself in the Reformed Confessions he twists their meaning to fit his anti-Christian paradigm.
Had I written my conclusion five months later than I did, it would have been much more decisively and comprehensively critical of the Federal Visionists than what was published. Over that period, thousands of e-mails among the contributors served to persuade me that the Federal Visionists really meant some of the worst things I´d feared, not what I´d hoped, by many of their ambiguous public statements. I became thoroughly convinced that what they are offering is a wholesale replacement of Westminsterian soteriology, ecclesiology, and sacramentology with a soteriology that is a hybrid of Amyraldianism and Roman Catholicism, an ecclesiology that leans heavily toward Roman Catholicism, and a sacramentology that also is far more Roman Catholic than Protestant. My reading of their statements in the time since then convinces me likewise even more strongly. One cannot consistently maintain the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone and yet affirm some of the definitive elements of what has come to be known as the Federal Vision or Auburn Avenue Theology. That some manage inconsistently to maintain both is a testimony to their intellectual inabilities, not to the orthodoxy of the FV/AAT [.http://www.upsaid.com/scarecrow/index.php?action=viewcom&id=548]
If you really believe that salvation is by belief alone - plus nothing, you need to see that Wilson does not and that while he wraps himself in the Reformed Confessions he twists their meaning to fit his anti-Christian paradigm.