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On Tues. night, July 17 I met W. C. Austin in debate for 4 nights at Townley, Aal. (12 miles from Jasper).
For two nights he aff: "The holy Spirit operates upon the sinner in conviction and conversion separate and independent of the written or spoken word of God."
Austin tried to show that every passage that mentions the word of God refers to Christ. But showed that John is the only one of the N. T. writers that ever used the Greek word "logos" in this sense, and that only five times (according to the Revised Version only 4 times), and that this word is begun with a capital letter in our English versions, showing that the translators understood it this way. And although his proposition was that "in conviction and conversion" that H. S. operates separate and independent of the word of God, he could never be induced to mention a single case of conversion.
The only semblance of an argument he made was from Rev. 7:9, where mention is made of people being redeemed out of "every nation," they were saved without it. To offset this, I showed first, that John saw "things which must come to pass hereafter" (Rev. March 2, 2017 4:1). Second, the gospel had been preached to every creature in Paul's day (Col. 1:23) and thirdly, that we have missionaries in nearly every land today, and that the church of Jesus Christ would not surrender or sound a retreat until the knowledge and glory of God's son cover the earth as waters cover the sea."
In my aff. on baptism I used only 4 arguments: Mk. 16:16, Acts 2:38, Rom. 6:3-4 and I Pet. 3:21. Austin had a new one on Acts 2:38. He said it is not in harmony with any of th cases of conversion in the N. T. or the great commission. I asked if Peter made a mistake, and he said, "Yes." When he saw that he had ruined himself on that, he tried to fix it up by saying, "They were not baptized in the formula laid down in the commission, but only in the "name of Jesus Christ." And the reason for this was that these people had murdered Christ. Then he admitted that, according to Peter's command, baptism to them was, "for remission of sins." His position had been exposed so many times that he decided to change.
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L. R. Wilson vs W. C. Austin (Baptist)
August 2, 1928
Townley, Alabama
(By L. R. Wilson)
August 2, 1928
Townley, Alabama
(By L. R. Wilson)
On Tues. night, July 17 I met W. C. Austin in debate for 4 nights at Townley, Aal. (12 miles from Jasper).
For two nights he aff: "The holy Spirit operates upon the sinner in conviction and conversion separate and independent of the written or spoken word of God."
Austin tried to show that every passage that mentions the word of God refers to Christ. But showed that John is the only one of the N. T. writers that ever used the Greek word "logos" in this sense, and that only five times (according to the Revised Version only 4 times), and that this word is begun with a capital letter in our English versions, showing that the translators understood it this way. And although his proposition was that "in conviction and conversion" that H. S. operates separate and independent of the word of God, he could never be induced to mention a single case of conversion.
The only semblance of an argument he made was from Rev. 7:9, where mention is made of people being redeemed out of "every nation," they were saved without it. To offset this, I showed first, that John saw "things which must come to pass hereafter" (Rev. March 2, 2017 4:1). Second, the gospel had been preached to every creature in Paul's day (Col. 1:23) and thirdly, that we have missionaries in nearly every land today, and that the church of Jesus Christ would not surrender or sound a retreat until the knowledge and glory of God's son cover the earth as waters cover the sea."
In my aff. on baptism I used only 4 arguments: Mk. 16:16, Acts 2:38, Rom. 6:3-4 and I Pet. 3:21. Austin had a new one on Acts 2:38. He said it is not in harmony with any of th cases of conversion in the N. T. or the great commission. I asked if Peter made a mistake, and he said, "Yes." When he saw that he had ruined himself on that, he tried to fix it up by saying, "They were not baptized in the formula laid down in the commission, but only in the "name of Jesus Christ." And the reason for this was that these people had murdered Christ. Then he admitted that, according to Peter's command, baptism to them was, "for remission of sins." His position had been exposed so many times that he decided to change.
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