Charles Finney - Bad Theology - Spurious Conversions

It is true, in his preface, he disclaims all pretensions to infallibility, but in his lectures, he more than once substantially assumes it. He tells his hearers, in relation to promoting revivals, " If you will go on to do as I say, the results will he just as certain as they are when the farmer breaks up a fallow field, and mellows it, and sows his grain." He speaks repeatedly of the " endless train of fooleries" the " absurdities" the " nonsense" which, up to his time, have been taught both in private and from the pulpit. He declares, " there is only here and there a minister who knows how to probe the church," &c. " This is a point where almost all ministers fail." Princeton Review 1835