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Saving Faith is the Attitude of a Life (Scholarly Evidence)

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Saving Faith in the Greek NT

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John Goodwin, “Redemption Redeemed”

Now available here online, John Goodwin’s Redemption Redeemed may be the best defense of Arminianism ever written. Published in 1651 by the Arminian Puritan John Goodwin (1593-1665), it is written in...

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The Fifth Article of the Remonstrants – Womack

The following is the fifth article that the Remonstrants wrote against unconditional perseverance and which they presented to the Calvinists at the Synod of Dort (1618-1619). Laurence Womack provides...

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Some Good Comments from Robert Shank on Rom 8:28-29

Robert Shank wrote: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate,...

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Thoughts on Apostasy from I. Howard Marshall and Robert Picirilli

I. Howard Marshall finds four biblical dangers that could serve as precursors to a believer giving up their faith in Christ and committing apostasy. Persecution by Unbelievers – “Believers . . . are...

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Waldemar Kowalski, “Once Saved, Always Saved?”

Waldemar Kowalski, “Once Saved, Always Saved?” from Enrichment Journal.

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Practical Problems With OSAS

Note: It should be obvious from the content of the post, but the version of OSAS that I am arguing against in this post is what has been termed by some as the ‘Alpha View’....

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The FACTS of Salvation: A Summary of Arminian Theology/the Biblical Doctrines...

The FACTS of Salvation:  A Summary of Arminian Theology/the Biblical Doctrines of Grace By Brian Abasciano   (For a pdf file of the present article, see here.)   The distinctive tenets of Arminian...

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The FACTS of Salvation C: Conditional Election

Conditional Election (the C in FACTS) [Cf. Article 1 of the 5 Articles of the Remonstrance] There are two main views of what the Bible teaches concerning the concept of election unto salvation: that it...

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Saturday April 5 Daily Scripture Commentary: Gal 3:1-6

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the...

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Declared Righteousness or Imputed Righteousness

This post was provided by SEA member Roy Ingle. On both sides of the Arminian and Calvinist debate is the understanding that Christ’s perfect righteousness is imputed to the undeserving sinner who...

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Jacob Arminius’ Reformed Views on Justification

Given Arminius’ Reformed context, he argues for the Reformed teaching of Justification by Faith alone, or sola fide. Mark Jones, writing for Reformation21, quotes Herman Witsius to the effect,...

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Anthony Chadwick Thornhill, “To the Jew First: A Socio-Historical and...

Please click on the attachment to view Anthony Chadwick Thornhill, “To the Jew First: A Socio-Historical and Biblical-Theological Analysis of the Pauline Teaching of ‘Election’ in Light of Second...

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Steve Sewell, “Corporate Election in 1 Peter”

  All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. 1 Peter 2:3-10 3 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 4 unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected...

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Ben Witherington and Chad Thornhill on *The Chosen People: Election, Paul and...

BEN: Chad in this chapter you talk about the ‘limited non-nationalistic understanding of election’ (p. 135) as permeating early Jewish literature. By this I take you to mean that Jews did view...

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Ben Witherington and Chad Thornhill on *The Chosen People: Election, Paul and...

BEN: In Chapter 5 it becomes clear that early Jews mostly thought that election was conditional, and the condition was faithfulness to the Mosaic covenant and its Law. You quote deSilva approvingly as...

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Ben Witherington and Chad Thornhill on *The Chosen People: Election, Paul and...

BEN: The discussion in chapter six about the heavenly tablets in Jubilees and their relationship to the book of life and the book of destruction is especially interesting in light of the discussion in...

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Ben Witherington and Chad Thornhill on *The Chosen People: Election, Paul and...

BEN: In terms of the modus operandi of this book, one of the basic approaches you take is to argue that if an idea is not found elsewhere in early Jewish literature, then it is...

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Chad Thornhill, On William Klein’s Revised and Expanded Book on Corporate...

[This post was taken from Scot McKnight’s Blog, where comments can be made.] By Chad Thornhill, PhD Chair of Theological Studies, Director of the MA in Christian Apologetics, Assistant Professor of...

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