"Any text that puts "salvation" after faith and repentance, or after conversion, or after any act of the dead sinner, is not regeneration or the new birth, but some other kind or phase of salvation."
This is a hermeneutical proposition that both the Hardshells and the Reformed Baptists, who promote the "born again before faith" distortion, take TO the scriptures, for they certainly do not derive such a hermeneutic FROM the scriptures.
Why would they create this hermeneutical principle? Is it not because they have insisted, erroneously, that "regeneration" or the "new birth" must always precede faith and repentance? And, because "salvation" is always put AFTER faith and repentance in scripture?
But, I challenge all these Hyper Calvinists to cite one verse of scripture that shows that a man was saved before he believed in Christ or the gospel. Surely they can find at least one case, can they not?
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