Objection 1: Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). Without a preacher, no one can believe (Romans 10:14). Therefore the unevangelized cannot be saved.
Objection 2: Acts 4:12, 'Neither is there salvation in any other.' John 14:6, 'No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.' You are teaching that other religions are alternative paths.
Objection 3: Mark 16:16, 'He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.'
Objection 4: If people can be saved without hearing, evangelism is pointless and the Great Commission is nonsense. Your doctrine kills missions.
Objection 5: This is universalism with extra steps. You are saying everyone gets saved.
Objection 6: Without tongues as evidence, how do you know anyone is born again? And your unevangelized 'elect' show no evidence at all.
Objection 7: Cornelius proves the opposite. God sent Peter precisely because Cornelius needed to hear the words 'whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved' (Acts 11:14).
Objection 8: Our founders received deeper truths for the last days. You are judging apostolic restoration by dead traditions.
Objection 9: Your doctrine of an unpaid, uneducated ministry and no missions is just laziness sanctified.
Objection 10: If election is unconditional, holiness doesn't matter and people will live carelessly.
Objection 11: Hebrews 12:14, 'holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord', proves final salvation is conditioned on attained sanctification.
Objection 12: What about Matthew 25 and the judgment of works? And 'work out your own salvation with fear and trembling' (Philippians 2:12)?
Objection 13: Matthew 24:13, "He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Objection 14: Hebrews 6:4-6, those "once enlightened" who "fall away" cannot be renewed.
Objection 15: Hebrews 10:26-29, "if we sin wilfully... there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.
Objection 16: Revelation 3:5, "I will not blot out his name out of the book of life" implies names can be blotted out.
Objection 17: John 15:2, 6, fruitless branches are "taken away" and "cast into the fire.
Objection 18: Galatians 5:4, "ye are fallen from grace.
Objection 19: 2 Peter 2:20-22, the washed sow returns to the mire.
Objection 20: 1 Corinthians 9:27, even Paul feared becoming "a castaway.
Objection 21: Colossians 1:23 and 1 Corinthians 15:2, "if ye continue in the faith"; "if ye keep in memory.
Objection 22: Ezekiel 18:24, "when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness... he shall die.
Objection 23: John 3:5, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Objection 24: Acts 2:38, "Repent, and be baptized... for the remission of sins.
Objection 25: 1 Peter 3:21, "baptism doth also now save us.
Objection 27: Matthew 5:48, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Objection 28: 1 Thessalonians 5:23, "the very God of peace sanctify you wholly.
Objection 29: 1 John 3:9, "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin... he cannot sin.
Objection 30: Revelation 2-3, the promises "to him that overcometh" prove a special class of attainers.
Objection 31: Philippians 3:11-14. Paul pressed "toward the mark for the prize of the high calling," striving "if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." Surely this is attainment doctrine.
Objection 32: Psalm 87:5-6, "of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her... the LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there." Zion is a select register.
Objection 33: Matthew 22:14, "many are called, but few are chosen"; and the man without a wedding garment was cast out. Doesn't this prove graded admission?
Objection 34: Matthew 19:12 and 1 Corinthians 7:32-34, eunuchs "for the kingdom of heaven's sake," and the unmarried "careth for the things that belong to the Lord." Celibate consecration is the higher way.
Objection 35: Revelation 14:4-5, the 144,000 are "not defiled with women; for they are virgins," "the firstfruits," "without fault." This is our consecrated ministry.
Objection 36: Mark 16:17-18, "these signs shall follow them that believe... they shall speak with new tongues... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Objection 37: Isaiah 53:5 / 1 Peter 2:24, "with his stripes we are healed." Healing is in the atonement; medicine is unbelief.
Objection 38: 1 Timothy 2:4 and 2 Peter 3:9. God "will have all men to be saved" and is "not willing that any should perish." Election contradicts God's expressed will.
Objection 39: John 3:16, "whosoever believeth." The gospel is for whosoever, not for a secret elect.
Objection 40: Romans 8:29, "whom he did foreknow" means God elected those He foresaw would believe.
Objection 41: 2 Peter 1:10, "give diligence to make your calling and election sure." Election must be secured by diligence.
Objection 42: Matthew 7:21 and Revelation 22:14, "he that doeth the will of my Father"; "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life." Doing decides destiny.
Objection 45: Romans 10:9-10, "if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart... thou shalt be saved; for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made un
Objection 43: 2 Corinthians 6:17 and Revelation 18:4, "come out from among them, and be ye separate"; "Come out of her, my people." God commands separation into the one true church.
Objection 44: Amos 3:3, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" We cannot fellowship error.
Objection 46: I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. I was there. You are asking me to deny what God did in me.
Objection 47: Look at the fruit. Our people pray before dawn, fast without complaint, give sacrificially, and live in holiness while easier churches sleep. God is manifestly with us. Dead doctrine could not produce living devotion.
Objection 48: Even if I cannot answer every argument here, striving is the safe course. If your doctrine is true, my striving loses nothing. If mine is true, your resting loses everything. Wisdom stays on the ladder.
Objection 55: You are telling me that my grandmother, my pastor, and generations of saints who lived and died in this teaching were all deceived. Would God permit His own people to be so wrong?
Objection 56: You do not know what you are asking. If I accept this, I lose my congregation, and perhaps my family. The cost of your doctrine is everything I have.
Objection 49: 1 Peter 1:23 and James 1:18 make the word the instrument of the new birth. "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God"; "of his own will begat he us with the word of truth." Thes
Objection 50: The confessions say "ordinarily," and their exception clause was written for infants and the mentally incapable, not for reachable adults. You are stretching a narrow clause into a broad doctrine.
Objection 51: This is hyper-Calvinism. Andrew Fuller's critique of Gill's circle applies: a system in which regeneration precedes and does not require the gospel dissolves the sinner's duty to believe and the church's urgency to preac
Objection 52: This is just inclusivism, the position of Karl Rahner's "anonymous Christians" and Clark Pinnock's wider hope, dressed in Reformed clothes. And like inclusivism, it is unfalsifiable speculation about invisible states of
Objection 53: The fewness sayings. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way... and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:14); "Lord, are there few that be saved?" (Luke 13:23). An optimistic account of a worldwide elect multitude co
Objection 54: Reformed dogmatics itself objects: regeneration without any faith is a contradiction, since the new life necessarily exercises itself. A regenerate adult with no knowledge of Christ would be a believer who believes nothi
Objection 1: God gave the land to Abraham's seed as an everlasting possession (Genesis 17:8). The 1948 state is that promise being kept. To deny it is to make God a covenant-breaker.
Objection 2: Romans 11 promises the future national salvation of Israel, the modern state is its staging ground.
Objection 3: Nations are blessed or cursed by their treatment of the Jewish state. Supporting modern Israel is a biblical duty; questioning this doctrine invites the curse.