Covenant Reformed News – June 2025 • Volume XX, Issue 14
This article defends the Reformed doctrine that the number of the elect will be fewer than the reprobate, arguing that Romans 5:15 does not support postmillennial or sentimental claims of universal salvation abundance. The author uses careful exegesis of Matthew 7:13-14 and Romans 5 to establish that Scripture presents the way to life as narrow with few finding it, directly contradicting sentimentalist and postmillennial eschatologies.
Adam-Christ Typology (4) In the last two issues of the News, we saw that “sentimentalists,” postmillennialists and some premillennialists reckon that on the last day the number of the saved will be greater than the number of the lost. However, neither Romans 5:15 nor anything else in that chapter lends any support to that view, whether that theory appeals to a false sentimentality with an erroneous view of children or false eschatologies with erroneous views of the millennium. Romans 5:15...