Leave the heathen alone Chris if you're not interested in denying yourself and giving lost men the saving gospel of Jesus Christ.

You know, this just may be the second most damning argument of reformed theology that I have ever come across. I have always found their rhetorical sermons rather dry (many here on sermonaudio fit into this category) and their entire service very cold and lifeless, ritualistic, and completely lacking in spirit (as well as spiritual gifts).

Well done character sketch of JD! I didn't know about the baptismal regeneration heresy. I shouldn't be surprised, though.

There is a reason why Jesus had no formal education folks!!! I'll take a Spirit-filled, blameless, saintly, and self-denying God-ordained spiritual elder over a seminary-trained, shameful gain-seeking, Greco-Roman philosophy spouting, pulpiteer any day!!!

However, that being said, OBEDIENCE to Jesus Christ is the sole criterion for ultimate salvation which is something altogether different from the 'works of the law' that the passages you cited dealt with. For Jesus Christ, the Judge of the 'quick and the dead' warns that "the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person ACCORDING TO WHAT HE HAS DONE." It did not say according to his election, or his "Sinner's Prayer," or to Christ's "imputed righteousness," or his acceptance of 'cheap' grace, or belief in Calvin's Institutes, or membership in New Age Antinomian Baptist churches, but rather his deeds!!!

Did you forget about the Anabaptists good ol' Luther had tortured and drowned???? What about his advocacy for their wholesale slaughter??? No my friend God was at work during the Protestant Reformation, through his Anabaptist agents who "loved not their lives even unto death" and joyously suffered under the hands of the German Anti-Semitic devil, the Pope of Geneva, and the Pope of Rome.