…To change such
perfect good news as the gospel set forth made no sense and reached the depths
of Spurgeon's disgust. "My blood
boils with indignation at the idea of improving the gospel. There is but one Savior, and that one Savior
is the same for ever. His doctrine is
the same in every age, and is not yea and nay." If modern proposal for theological change
were authentic, what an absurd scene would eternity hold forth. "What a strange result we should obtain
in the general assembly of heaven,"
Spurgeon envisioned, "if some were saved by the gospel of the first
century, and others by the gospel fo the second, and others by the gospel of
the seventeenth, and others by the gospel of the nineteenth century! Imagine the scene. "We should need a different song of
praise for the clients of these various periods, and the mingled chorus would
be rather to the glory of man's culture than to the praise of the one
Lord. No such mottled heaven, and no
such discordant song, shall ever be produced."
Charles Spurgeon as quoted in Living by Revealed
Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of
Charles Haddon Spurgeon by Thomas Nettles
