A Review of Elder Michael Gowens’ Temporal Salvation: A Bogus or Biblical Concept?
Image from Pixabay Is gospel faith necessary for eternal salvation? Most current Primitive Baptists would say no. I say “current” because, as far as I can tell, it is impossible to find any PB who taught this before the end of the 19th century, and certainly not before 1860. However, modern PBs teach that there are no eternal consequences to gospel faith, only temporal ones. Depending on who is teaching it, it may be said that gospel faith will always accompany the eternal salvation of the elect, but just that it is not necessary for it. Though I don’t agree with the second part of that statement, I can at least understand it and sympathize with it to some extent. Others, however, have taken this to its logical conclusion: that not only is gospel faith not necessary, but in many cases the elect may never even have faith this side of heaven. Worse still, some will argue that this is not only the case in certain exceptions, like infants, but that ...
