Tag: salvation

  • Biblical Soteriology Is Monergistic

    Regeneration precedes faith. Faith is the fruit of regeneration, not the root of it. Biblical soteriology (how we are saved) is monergistic. That is, it is God acting alone. Man’s will is enslaved to sin. So his will is limited. Man cannot initiate salvation, because he is spiritually dead. Man’s will is so enslaved to…

  • Faith Alone: The Cornerstone of The Reformation

    Justification by faith alone (Sola Fide) is the lynchpin of the Protestant Reformation. It will stand or fall on the basis of this doctrine. The essence of Sola Fide is the teaching that we are not saved by the merits of any of our good works, but rather we are saved on the merits of…

  • Salvation: Monergism vs Synergism

    The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches are semi-Pelagian. Salvation in these churches is synergistic—man cooperating with God. Man is saved, in part, through his own efforts. Man, not God, chooses the time of his salvation. Roman Catholics and Orthodox are Arminian in soteriology. They exalt man’s so-called “free will”, and believe it is essential…

  • Paradise Lost?

    Roman Catholicism teaches that there are two types of sin: venial sins which don’t merit the loss of salvation, and mortal sins which merit the loss of salvation. This distinction is not biblical. The result of this teaching is that a typical Roman Catholic will vacillate between being saved and damned hundreds, or even thousands…

  • Roman Catholics Conflate Justification With Sanctification

    LET’S CLARIFY MERITIVE AND SALVING A response to Catholics who say they are saved by faith and that good works are not salvific and meritorious. Your denomination teaches that the practice of good works is necessary for salvation and that the Christian under the influence of grace deserves for himself and others the graces to…

  • The Biblical Gospel: Grounded in Justification

    The very essence of the gospel, of Jesus Christ, is justification by faith alone. We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone. None of our good works are meritorious. We are totally undeserving of salvation. God did not condition our faith on us accepting Christ in our future (God exists outside of time). No.…

  • Charles Finney and His Legacy

    Charles Finney was an evangelist in the 19th century, who preached the revivalist circuit in America. He became very popular, as did the altar call (which he invented) and the so-called sinner’s prayer whereby a person “accepts Jesus into their heart”. The problem with Finney (and the churches that came after him) is that they…

  • Salvation: One Way or Many?

    The prevailing and dominant position among most people is that there are numerous paths to God and salvation. It teaches that Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jewish, and others will be saved by living a “good life”, and God will judge them on the basis of how many good vs evil works they did. The truth is…

  • The Roman Catholic Church in Analysis

    Background Since its beginning, with the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD, making Trinitarian Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic church has, over the centuries, accumulated a vast corpus of doctrine/dogma. These beliefs which have accreted are simply the traditions of man and most have absolutely no basis in Scriptura.…

  • The Gospel: Defined and Defended

    Background If you ask many people, who espouse Christ and go to church every week, just what is the gospel you will get various responses. Some will say being a “good person” is the gospel. Roman Catholics may say the gospel is that Jesus died for us and is present in a real way in…