OBJECTION #15. A child cannot become unborn, and the relationship of a father and a child cannot be ended. Once a son, always a son.
ANSWER: This argument is based on natural fact, then applied to the spiritual, which doesn't always hold up as truth. (UES adherents frequently make this kind of mistake!) This type of error can be demonstrated by the following facts: Before we became Christians, we were all "children of the devil" (Acts 13:10; 1 Jn. 3:10) and "sons of the evil one" (Matt. 13:38). In other words, the devil was our spiritual father (Jn. 8:44). However, this spiritual father-child relationship changed at the point of salvation, according to Scripture! Aren't you glad that spiritual father-child relationships CAN be ended?
Furthermore, many UES adherents who know the fallacy of the deification of man teaching would be quick to reject one of their arguments which is, likewise, based on natural fact then applied to the spiritual! That faulty argument put forth by Earl Paulk is: "Dogs have puppies and cats have kittens, so God has little gods."(31) Therefore, this type of reasoning must be carefully compared with Scripture.
I agree with the author’s analysis of the objection (i.e. you can’t always take a natural fact and apply it to the spiritual), however he really fails to answer the question that is at the heart of it. At the heart of the question is the fact that, at the moment of salvation, the baptism of the Holy Spirit takes you out of Adam and puts you into Christ and applies all of the righteousness of Christ to your life. There is no Scriptural basis for saying that there exists a spiritual “un-baptism” whereby the Holy Spirit takes you out of Christ and puts you back into Adam and reapplies all of your former sins back onto your life.