Free offer of the gospel
The free offer of the Gospel, sometimes called the well-meant offer of the gospel, in Christian theology, is the offer of salvation in Jesus Christ to all people. It is generally accepted by Calvinists, but rejected by a few small Reformed denominations, such as the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Australia,{{Cite web |url=http://www.epc.org.au//literature/modern-moderate-calvinism-8.html |title=Modern Moderate Calvinism |access-date=2016-06-23 |archive-date=2011-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219114853/http://www.epc.org.au//literature/modern-moderate-calvinism-8.html |url-status=dead }} the Protestant Reformed Churches in America, the Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands (Dutch: Gereformeerde Gemeenten in Nederland, abbreviated GGiN)GGN denies the free offer of the Gospel{{Circular reference|date=December 2017}}GGN origin over denial of the free offer of the Gospel{{Circular reference|date=December 2017}} and also by some English Strict Baptists of longer standing, such as John Gill and, later, the Gospel Standard Strict Baptists.
The free offer of the Gospel was a point that the Marrow Brethren sought to defend, seeing the high Calvinists who denied the doctrine as misguided.{{Cite book |last=MacLean |first=Donald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhRoBwAAQBAJ&dq=Ebenezer+Erskine+marrow&pg=PA262 |title=James Durham (1622–1658): And the Gospel Offer in Its Seventeenth-Century Context |date=2015-03-11 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-525-55087-8 |language=en}}
See also
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References
External links
- [http://www.loughbrickland.org/articles/freeoffer.shtml "The Free Offer of the Gospel: Is It Biblical and Reformed?"] from Free Church Witness
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071014151656/http://www.corkfpc.com/freeoffercalvinists.html "Calvinists and the Free Offer of the Gospel"] – primary source quotations compiled by Colin Maxwell
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070826183253/http://fpcr.org/blue_banner_articles/Murray-Free-Offer-Review.htm "Murray on the Free Offer: A Review by Matthew Winzer"]
- [http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/Free%20Offer/cover.htm "History of the Free Offer"]
- [http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_35.html "Is Denial of the 'Well-Meant Offer' Hyper-Calvinism?"]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060827043355/http://www.trinityfoundation.org/PDF/145a-AHistoryofHypo-Calvinism.pdf "A History of Hypo-Calvinism"]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060614044721/http://www.trinityfoundation.org/PDF/147a-TheBannerTruthvsCalvinism.pdf "The Banner of Truth vs. Calvinism"]
- [https://archive.today/20090611023458/http://blog.rbseminary.org/2009/05/god-makes-a-wish-that-each-and-every-sinner-might-be-saved/ "God Makes a Wish: That Each and Every Sinner Might Be Saved"] – A Brief Essay by Robert Gonzales Jr.