Who Said This?

Who Said This?

"It is self-evident that, until the sinner breaks off from sins by repentance or turning to God, he cannot be justified in any sense.  This is everywhere assumed, implied and taught in the Bible."

Take a guess, answer to follow in a couple of days . . .

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[Terry West]

Charles Finney\c

[R. K. Brumbelow]

In his systematic theology lecture 61

[chuck bridgeland]

Finney. SEarching Google with "It is self-evident that, until the sinner breaks off from sins by repentance" gets you a page of hits, all Finney.

[Richard]

Yeah, I would have guessed Finney. It amazes me this guy is counted as a "Christian" to emulate.

[Hed Taggard]

I believe The White Horse Inn told me that a large portrait of Finney hangs in the entrance to Billy Graham's "headquarters".

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association moved from Minneapolis to Charlotte in the past five years, but I'm not sure where this portrait was.

[Douglas VanderMeulen]

In the Billy Graham Museum in Wheaton Ill, on the next to the Wheaton College campus, there is a tribute to the "most significant" American evangelist from the colonial days up to of course Billy Graham. Each evangelist gets a display which includes at least a picture, a famous quote and maybe an example of a sermon. Some displays have more to them than others. Except for Graham himself, the two most prominate evangelist are Finney and Billy Sunday. In Finney's section there is a quote of Finney in a rather large font size that says (quoting loosely from memory) "Regeneration is a supernatural miracle but an act of man mustering all his resources for a changed life."

[Terry West]

Douglas, I think you ment to write, "Regeneration is [not] a supernatural act...." I was quite taken with Charles finney for about 3 years...:( I bought his systematic theology and read many of his sermons and books. He made this statement in many books, sermons and also in his systematic theology. Finney was pelegian to the core. Looking back I can see how God used Finney to drive me to despair, and when I was utterly without hope, my blessed triune God graciously and supernaturally regenerated me and justified me by faith alone in Christ alone...:)

Finney also said that the gospel of imputed righteousness was a false gospel.

[Mike Ratliff]

Finney!

Argh! That man did more to get the western church on the wrong track than anyone else I can think of. However, as Terry said God used the despair coming from his inability to sanctify himself to drive him to the truth. I guess we need to quit disparing over our false teachers and trust God to work out His will His way.

[Larry]

Definately Finney!

[Brad Lenzner]

Well, I used to say stuff like that. *cringe*

[Douglas VanderMeulen]

Terry, You are correct! I did not read my post before posting it. Yes, Finney said regeneration is NOT a supernatural event. Thanks for pointing my mistake out.

[Peggy Velis]

I was going to say Wesley - don't all the perfectionism teachers say this?