Objection 8

From Sovereign Grace and the Scope of Election: A Comparative Examination of Attainment Theology and Grace Theology, with Particular Attention to the Question of Whether God's Elect Are Found Among All Nations and Religions

Our founders received deeper truths for the last days. You are judging apostolic restoration by dead traditions.

Answer. Every claim of restored latter-day revelation, whatever movement makes it, makes the identical move: the true gospel was lost or incomplete until our founder. Galatians 1:8-9 anathematizes the move itself, regardless of the founder's sincerity. And the claim is self-refuting on the attainment system's own terms: if the church built on the original apostles could fail so badly that it needed refounding in modern times, then Christ's promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail against His church (Matthew 16:18) failed, and a refounded church resting on a failed promise has no better warranty. The sovereign grace believer claims no succession of organizations and no new light; only the sufficiency of "the faith once delivered" (Jude 3) and the perpetuity of Christ's people in every generation.