Post #6207

1 Timothy Refutes Calvinists MHFM: Various Protestants believe that a ‘true believer’ can never fall away from faith & 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.” 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?”