Stephen Craig was a pastor in Toronto, Canada. He also lecture at the Rochester Bible Training School. He
wrote The Dualism of Eternal Life, first published in 1916. He also wrote against modernism and fought
against postmillennialism. His articles can be found in fundamentalist periodicals such as Watchword and
Truth, and Foundation Magazine.
wrote The Dualism of Eternal Life, first published in 1916. He also wrote against modernism and fought
against postmillennialism. His articles can be found in fundamentalist periodicals such as Watchword and
Truth, and Foundation Magazine.
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Craig: "Only those who endure unto the end will have salvation in the
second degree. Matt. 24:13. And if those who do not endure unto the end
miss the second stage of salvation, what will be the consequence, the
penalty? They will LOSE THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM... .Every saved
man must have his BAPTISM OF FIRE now in this age, or in the age
to come. God is not mocked. Gal. 6:6-8... .He who sincerely accepts
Christ as his Saviour from sin is in turn accepted of God, for Christ's sake,
forgiven, regenerated, and justified...This is his justification as a sinner.
And we may affirm, as a general principle, that it can never be
lost....According to the traditional theory a man can have salvation, and
break every one of the commandments enumerated by the Saviour, and
yet enter the Millennial kingdom, because they say, it is all of grace. But
Gal. 5:19-21 and 2 Cor. 12:19-21, not to cite other passages, prove the
falsity of the assumption... Only those who have attained real spiritual
union with Christ by self-denial and self-sacrifice effected through the
power of the Spirit of Christ as crucified and risen, will share in the glory of
the first-resurrection... How pathetic the thought that for the great majority
of Christians their end is not maturity and Millennial glory, but exclusion,
destruction and age-lasting Judgment.... What an inconceivable loss it will
be to THE CHRISTIAN to be shut out from the Messianic Kingdom for a
thousand years, and CONFINED IN THE HADEAN PRISON? Matt.
5:21-26. Surely the 'wages of sin is death' for the carnal Christian as well
as for the sinner. And why should it not be so?"
(The Dualism of Eternal Life (Rochester: 1916), 26, 115, 143, 161)
second degree. Matt. 24:13. And if those who do not endure unto the end
miss the second stage of salvation, what will be the consequence, the
penalty? They will LOSE THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM... .Every saved
man must have his BAPTISM OF FIRE now in this age, or in the age
to come. God is not mocked. Gal. 6:6-8... .He who sincerely accepts
Christ as his Saviour from sin is in turn accepted of God, for Christ's sake,
forgiven, regenerated, and justified...This is his justification as a sinner.
And we may affirm, as a general principle, that it can never be
lost....According to the traditional theory a man can have salvation, and
break every one of the commandments enumerated by the Saviour, and
yet enter the Millennial kingdom, because they say, it is all of grace. But
Gal. 5:19-21 and 2 Cor. 12:19-21, not to cite other passages, prove the
falsity of the assumption... Only those who have attained real spiritual
union with Christ by self-denial and self-sacrifice effected through the
power of the Spirit of Christ as crucified and risen, will share in the glory of
the first-resurrection... How pathetic the thought that for the great majority
of Christians their end is not maturity and Millennial glory, but exclusion,
destruction and age-lasting Judgment.... What an inconceivable loss it will
be to THE CHRISTIAN to be shut out from the Messianic Kingdom for a
thousand years, and CONFINED IN THE HADEAN PRISON? Matt.
5:21-26. Surely the 'wages of sin is death' for the carnal Christian as well
as for the sinner. And why should it not be so?"
(The Dualism of Eternal Life (Rochester: 1916), 26, 115, 143, 161)
| Stephen Speers Craig (1855-1936) |