What are we to say to the view that the Bible does not teach that some people are individually ‘regenerated’? A view that locates perseverance in an ongoing and mysterious wrestling of the Spirit, rather than in a change of nature of those elected to heaven? If the Spirit wrestles with all baptized believers, but with some more than others, then pastorally, heaven or hell depends upon the extent of that wrestling. There has to be a watershed in there somewhere. One obvious question that would arise, were this kind of thing to be taught from the pulpit, is when, how and why does God give up on a person? He is wrestling with all of us, meaning that all of us resist Him to some extent. Do any cooperate with Him fully? How much is necessary? This has the effect of locating that watershed in our choices, which we must avoid.
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