This is the theology that gave evangelicals permission to do nothing about black suffering during slavery & Jim Crow, “there is no immediate 1:1 correspondence between thriving spiritual conditions & thriving temporal conditions at the point of salvation.” christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2021…
He continues, “...point of salvation (2Cor 4:16). To be sure that day is coming in eternity, praise God, but this side of heaven they are not inextricably linked as if they were twin, concurrent, simultaneous fruits of the gospel.”
This is what slaves were told, “For the Christian, God accomplishes immediate spiritual salvation at conversion, yet God may (and often does) withhold temporal relief from oppressors or oppressive conditions until eternity, where our eyes must remain fixed (2Cor 4:7-18).”
Moral of the story: this perspective is a softer form of American fundamentalism & is in no way Reformed because it lacks a robust cosmology. This is fall-sin-Jesus-personal salvation, not creation-fall-redemption-consummation. The absence of OT references says a lot.
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