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Originally Posted by NightSpirit  ... Primitive Baptists believe that God already knows who will come to Him as He calls them and who will not, that all your life was known to God before you were born. Their church was established as more of just a place to worship God as those pre-known people are drawn in by a Spiritual revelation from God after they have heard Jesus.
Most churches believe that on some level, that you can’t really believe or can’t be expected to believe unless you receive that revelation. The sin would be in not being open to a revelation from God because of pride or arrogance or in rejecting Christ once God has made Him known to you. (my emphasis) |
The bolded bit, I think this is the thing which Infinitethoughts and in the larger sense, Steve, are warning against - belief systems that trap you into a certain way of thinking. A way of saying it might be that they think that a system that necessitates this kind of submission to revelation to get capital-T Truth is necessarily false, because the Truth (or even truth) shouldn't necessitate such closed-minded tactics, whether it be God's presence or whatever.
I don't think I've quite hammered home what they meant, though, so please, jump in and correct me if needs be.