A CONDITIONALIST DICTIONARY

By: Guillermo Santamaria

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This book is essentially a field guide to Conditional Time-Salvation Primitive Baptist vocabulary—a “dictionary” that tries to use terms Conditionalists actually use, and then document them with examples from their own published wording and common reference points.

What’s in it

• A foreword written from an Absoluter, non-means Old School Baptist voice—polemical, forceful, and intentionally suspicious of “two-story” systems where eternal salvation is all of God but time blessings become conditional wages. It attacks the idea that conditional frameworks subtly “edit God” and smuggle a second principle beside Him.

• Then a dictionary of Conditionalist terms—largely the language of:

  • Time/temporal/gospel salvation (deliverance “here in time”)

  • Conditionality (the claim that many “if” texts describe real conditions within God’s moral government of His people)

  • Obedience, neglect of duty, chastisement, rewards in this life only

  • Union vs communion; sonship vs discipleship; preservation vs perseverance

  • Regeneration as “efficacious,” “independent of the will,” and “passive in regeneration / active in obedience”

  • “Ability of the Christian” as God-given ability to obey (not natural ability of the unregenerate)

  • “Rightly dividing/distinguishing” as the method used to sort texts into eternal vs temporal categories

The core thesis of the “Conditionalist dictionary” section

It portrays Conditionalist “time salvation” as a system where:

• Eternal salvation is unconditional (Christ’s work; God’s act).

• Time salvation is conditional (experienced deliverance and “Christian enjoyment” attached to obedience; loss and chastening attached to neglect).

• Many “if…” sentences in the NT are read as time-life conditions (fellowship, happiness, deliverance from error/misery), not conditions for eternal life.

The internal “skeptical footnote.”

It acknowledges a reality worth keeping straight: not every Primitive Baptist who affirms temporal deliverances wants the full “Conditional Time Salvation” badge—some accept the category but resist making it a party system.