Articles by Bob Higby

The Great Apostasy

February 7, 2022 13 min read

Paul revealed in his own lifetime that the apocalyptic 'mystery of iniquity' was already at work In his farewell address to the Ephesian elders Acts 20 he prophesied that false teachers and heresy in

Baptists and Liberty of Conscience

June 19, 2020 1 min read

Like all other Protestants Baptists profess to be champions of liberty of conscience and the priesthood of all believers In actual fact these are not guiding principles of the movement to any signific

Men Put a Lot of God's truth in a Box

June 17, 2020 1 min read

The Five Points of Calvinism TULIP are not all there is to the gospel They are certainly not all there is to the doctrine of gospel election either They put election in a box low-grace infralapsarians

Justification Planned, Constituted, and Declared

June 16, 2020 1 min read

Question Does eternal justification mean that a man is justified even before his existence Answer Most definitely It means that elect mankind is justified transcendent of all human time in the estimat

Knowledge, Assent, and Trust

June 15, 2020 1 min read

To know the truth of the gospel is to love it agree with it and rely trust upon it To love it is to know and rely upon it to rely upon it is to know and love it There is no such thing as 1 or 2 of the

Our Position on Saving Faith

June 15, 2020 1 min read

Our position is that there is no 'confession of Christ in the power of the Word and Spirit' unless it is the inevitable function fiducia of an understanding notitia and affirming assensus mind

Sandemanianism

June 15, 2020 3 min read

An oft-repeated attack on the doctrines of Pristine Grace staff is that we teach Sandemanianism Some Lordship Salvation teachers also accuse any opponents of their false doctrine of Lordship Salvation

What About Those Who Never Hear?

December 30, 2019 1 min read

The non-elect who hear nothing of the apostolic gospel in this life will still confront it with hatred on judgment day because they want to be justified by works and not a redemption provided solely i

A Brief Exegesis of Romans 5:12-21

November 24, 2019 11 min read

A Brief Exegesis of Romans 5 12-21 ESV NOTE The position outlined here is one I have embraced defended and written about for many years I am presenting it again as the old issue has come back again wi

The Elect Have Never Been the Objects of God's Wrath

August 29, 2019 1 min read

The notion that God has an attribute or disposition of hell-wrath toward his elect in pre-conversion days then changes his mind to a disposition of love and grace in the post-conversion days of his el

Debunking the 'Great Satan' Myth

Part 1

August 17, 2019 57 min read

One Little Word Shall Fell Him Martin Luther A Mighty Fortress Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resist steadfast in

The 400 Year Reign of the Baptist Popes

May 3, 2019 9 min read

The Protestant movement arose in the early 16th century as an attempt to overthrow centuries of corruption and false doctrine in the Roman Catholic church Eastern Orthodoxy originated in the 2nd centu