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Accordingly, Hypers view God as being the author of sin AND they also believe that man has no responsibility before God for his sin.
Hypers believe the Gospel should only preached to the elect and are therefore against the free proclamation of the Gospel to all.
Hypers belief you must agree with their soteriological positions as a prerequisite for salvation making the work of the Holy Spirit almost Gnostic. The Spirit revealing to the individual without means of the Word, preacher or sacraments.
The two fellas that often get labeled as Hypers and we are told they believed the above are Joseph Hussey and John Skepp. I've read some of John Skepp but not enough to know if this definition would fit or if he taught all of they above. I have never talked to a Hyper in person or on the net and I don't know of anyone who fits the description or deserves this label.
What I believe and is often called, incorrectly, Hyper Calvinism...
The Elect are justified from eternity. There is no offer of salvation to everyone, there is no "well meant offer" to the reprobate, but the Gospel must be freely proclaimed to all. I do not believe God "desires" to save everyone or everyone would be saved. Grace is not common to all but to the elect and the reprobate benefit from God's love and restraining mercy to His elect people. John Gill is one of the great lights who taught he above with consistency but Theodore Beza, Gordon Clark and Arthur Pink held to much of the above. Ministers in the Protestant Reformed Church of America would also be consistent in agreeing with the above. None of the positions I posted are rightly called Hyper Calvinism so I ask, who are the dreaded Hyper Calvinists?
Yours in the Lord,
jm
Hypers believe the Gospel should only preached to the elect and are therefore against the free proclamation of the Gospel to all.
Hypers belief you must agree with their soteriological positions as a prerequisite for salvation making the work of the Holy Spirit almost Gnostic. The Spirit revealing to the individual without means of the Word, preacher or sacraments.
The two fellas that often get labeled as Hypers and we are told they believed the above are Joseph Hussey and John Skepp. I've read some of John Skepp but not enough to know if this definition would fit or if he taught all of they above. I have never talked to a Hyper in person or on the net and I don't know of anyone who fits the description or deserves this label.
What I believe and is often called, incorrectly, Hyper Calvinism...
The Elect are justified from eternity. There is no offer of salvation to everyone, there is no "well meant offer" to the reprobate, but the Gospel must be freely proclaimed to all. I do not believe God "desires" to save everyone or everyone would be saved. Grace is not common to all but to the elect and the reprobate benefit from God's love and restraining mercy to His elect people. John Gill is one of the great lights who taught he above with consistency but Theodore Beza, Gordon Clark and Arthur Pink held to much of the above. Ministers in the Protestant Reformed Church of America would also be consistent in agreeing with the above. None of the positions I posted are rightly called Hyper Calvinism so I ask, who are the dreaded Hyper Calvinists?
Yours in the Lord,
jm