Unfortunately it looks like the Primitive Baptists have been infected with John MacArthur's confusion of justification by faith alone with sanctification. I had a similar observation this past Sunday when I visited Corinth Primitive Baptist Church, in Berea, Florida. Elder Lloyd Cunningham insisted that we cannot know we are saved in this life and that we can only "hope" for eternal salvation until we actually "know" we are saved. The only way to know we have arrived, according to Elder Cunningham, is to enter into heaven itself. This is nothing short of eternal insecurity and essentially agrees with Arminianism and the Papists that salvation is conditioned on good works.
Click here to read Brandon Kraft's comments on his observation of a Primitive Baptist church:
Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 3, Of God's Eternal Decree:
8. The doctrine of this high mystery of predestination is to be handled with special prudence and care,1 that men, attending the will of God revealed in His Word, and yielding obedience thereunto, may, from the certainty of their effectual vocation, be assured of their eternal election.2 So shall this doctrine afford matter of praise, reverence, and admiration of God,3 and of humility, diligence, and abundant consolation, to all that sincerely obey the Gospel.4
2 2 Pet. 1:10.
Click here to read Brandon Kraft's comments on his observation of a Primitive Baptist church:
Primitive Baptists: Conditionalism Seems to Always Rear its Ugly Head
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