Marks of Being Reformed | Dr. James White

"One of the greatest proofs of regeneration is that we love the attributes of God that are the most loathsome to the natural man."

As someone who was once a zealous independent fundamentalist Baptist, and hence a rabid anti-Reformed individual (though greatly ignorant), but has over 2019 become Reformed (just in time to prepare me for the insanity that would come in the world), I understand from personal experience what this quotation means, and what Dr. White talks about here.
I'm not saying that I wasn't regenerate prior to understanding and acceptance of the dreaded doctrines of grace, and I'm not saying that no one who is not Reformed is saved, nor that you must believe all five points of Calvinism to be saved. I'm talking exclusively of my own personal experience, and what kind of a person I was as a fundamentalist. The key word is "ignorant".
While I always understood and believed in Christ's substitutionary atonement as my only hope of justification before God, of course the issues of the scope and efficacy thereof, God's sovereign predestination and election of individuals for salvation, and God's sovereign decree in general were those "loathsome" doctrines that were the hardest to accept. Thank God, now those very doctrines are beautiful to me and the anchor of hope.

Excerpt from the Dividing Line program aired on December 9, 2021

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