Sproul is doing no such thing. Can't you wait until we get past post #25 before starting to get inflammatory?
C'mon ksen. Don't play innocent. You knew before you decided to post this that it would be inflammatory.
If you really want "discussion" you should post articles that would foster that discussion rather than articles that seek to drive home the same point that you know is the major area of contention.
You've been around here far to long to think that an article like this will do anything but move the argument to a different thread.
And before I'm chastised for not reading the article, I did read it. You can consider this my comment on what Sproul has to say.
The fact is, ksen, that God saved R.C. Sproul because he believed. That is the Gospel truth. The question on the thread is not "Why do I believe?" but "Why did God save me?" Sproul gives the correct answer to that question and then turns around and ridicules the answer by stating that the "deeper question" is....
Ultimately his answer is that he doesn't know. But he does reveal something at the end which is quite telling. He reveals that there is something (something not revealed) in a person that God uses for a determinate choice. "Ultimately, the decision to save us was made in eternity, according to God's divine knowledge of us.
So pick your preposition, but there is something in, on, or about us that God foresees and then uses as a determinate factor in election. It is clear from scripture that the only thing that could be is "CHRIST IN US." And how do we get CHRIST IN US? We invite him in. That is the essence of the Gospel. It is something that Sproul recognizes in the beginning of this article and then refuses to recognize at the end.
So in essence Sproul recognizes the gospel, and then rejects it as too simplistic. Instead he delves deeper and then where does he end up? Confused.