Darrell Brantingham

Excellent article as usual, Cheryl!

Well done Cheryl. I appreciated the excellent exegesis of this passage. Calvinist often quote verse v65 without even a mention of v64.

Cheryl, I like Dave Hunt’s take on what the spiritual dead can do: Dave Hunt, in his book ‘What Love is this?’, quotes A.W Pink (a hyper – Calvinist, the doctrine of which Dave’s book is written against) who wrote “There are some who say the unregenerated are dead, and that ends the matter – they cannot have responsibility… Pink. Hunt: A corpse in the cemetery is no suitable analogy of the natural man. A corpse is incapable of performing evil. A corpse cannot “despise and reject” Christ (Isa 53:3), cannot “resist the Holy Spirit” (Acts 7:51), cannot disobey the gospel (2 Thess 1:8); but the natural man can and does these things.” Me: So there is a difference between the spiritual dead and the natural dead. The natural dead can do nothing but the spiritual dead can indeed hear, repent, respond and believe or reject..