Daily on Regeneration

Hardshell apologist John R. Daily wrote:

"In this work God is alone, using no means or instrumentalities. It is sometimes urged that he is able to produce this change either by the use of means or without them. The question is not as to what God is able to do, but as to what he does do. There is not a passage in all the bible that teaches that means are employed in the work of regeneration. In taking away the stony heart, and giving a heart of flesh, the Lord works a change in the disposition of the sinner that renders him susceptible of being affected by the gospel." ("The New Heart" - Zion's Advocate, December 1898, Vol. 37, No. 12)

http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/DailyEditorials8.html

This is what one of the leading apologists of the Hardshell denomination wrote over a hundred years ago.

I have two comments.

First, Daily must have closed his eyes when he was reading the Bible, for there are numerous verses that prove that regeneration is accomplished by the Spirit's use of gospel truth. The early part of my ongoing book, "The Hardshell Baptist Cult," covers many verses ("hot shot" verses) that destroy the anti-means view of Daily and the Hardshells, and of today's "neo-Reformed" crowd.

Second, Daily's Hardshell view on this matter is not any different from what we hear coming from the "Reformed" crowd, those who also affirm that initial regeneration is accomplished without means; And, yet, they seem to get upset when we call them "Hardshells" and "Hyper Calvinists"!

If one agrees with Daily, then he is a Hyperist.