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1 Timothy Refutes Calvinists
MHFM: Various Protestants believe that a ‘true believer’ can never fall away from faith and justification. That position is patently opposed to many passages of the New Testament, including statements in 1 Timothy.
1 Timothy 1:19-20- “… holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.”
1 Timothy 4:1- “Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons…”
1 Timothy 6:10- “For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
Commenting on how such evidence is clearly opposed to the Protestant view, St. Robert Bellarmine stated:
St. Robert Bellarmine, De Iustificatione, Book 3, Chap. 14: “How can this be said [in their view]? They never had true faith, who departed from the faith? And how have they made shipwreck who were never in the ship?”
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