This is a follow-up video to Joel Krytko’s previous video presenting verse-by-verse analysis of Romans 9 that has non-Calvinist conclusions. In this video, Joel is interviewed about Romans 9, bringing him to go deeper with…
Salvation
Roy Ingle, “Calvinism and the Atonement”
This is part of an ongoing series on the atonement and how Arminians and Calvinists differ over the extent of the atonement and whether Jesus’ work was for the elect or the entire world. Calvinism…
Adam Roe, “The Crucial Thread of Prevenient Grace: A Wesleyan Perspective on Divine Drawing”
Please click on the link to view Adam Roe, “The Crucial Thread of Prevenient Grace: A Wesleyan Perspective on Divine Drawing,” Firebrand (April 9, 2024) https://firebrandmag.com/articles/the-crucial-thread-of-prevenient-grace.
Murray Vasser, “John Piper and Divine Schizophrenia: Has Piper Solved Calvinism’s Biggest Problem?”
Please click on the link to view Murray Vasser, “John Piper and Divine Schizophrenia: Has Piper Solved Calvinism’s Biggest Problem?” Firebrand (March 19, 2024) https://firebrandmag.com/articles/john-piper-and-divine-schizophrenia-has-piper-solved-calvinisms-biggest-problem.
Robert A. J. Gagnon, “Salvation Is Not Unconditional”
It is a great misunderstanding of many believers that salvation in Christ is “unconditional.” This misunderstanding has become a virtual mantra in evangelicalism, a litmus test for orthodoxy. But orthodoxy can only be defined by…
Dana Steele, “Explain Arminianism and Calvinism to Me Like I Am Eight Years Old”
My daughter came home from summer camp when she was 8 years old and told me she asked her counselor, “Do you believe that anyone can be saved or only certain people can be saved?”…
Beth Felker Jones, “Reader Questions: Free Will, Election, and the God Who Saves: Let Every Soul Be Jesus’ Guest”
Click on the link to view Beth Felker Jones, “Reader Questions: Free Will, Election, and the God Who Saves: Let Every Soul Be Jesus’ Guest.”
Ben Henshaw, “Q & A on The Calvinist Claim That Salvation Conditioned on Faith Necessarily Implies Some Sort of Merited Contribution to Salvation”
Here is the question as originally posed along with a break down interaction below: Full Question: “So, let me reason this way, If prevenient grace is given to everyone, and my neighbors resist it, so they…
Richard Coords, “Lottery”
The Calvinist doctrine of Unconditional Election seems to turn salvation into the luck of a lottery. In Calvinism, those who are born saved are far more fortunate than those born non-elect and un-savable. What do…
Mark K. Olson, “Opening Salvation’s Door: Acts 10:35 and John Wesley’s Inclusivism”
Abstract: This article explores John Wesley’s inclusivism regarding the future salvation of non-Christians, like Jews, Moslems, and other religious people. Reflecting on Acts 10:35, Wesley became convinced that the foundation for future salvation was not…
Allen Tennison, “What We Believe About … Salvation”
This article is part of a series on the Assembly of God Statement of Fundamental Truths. Please click on the link to view Allen Tennison, “What We Believe About … Salvation.”
Wilbur F. Tillett, “The Holy Spirit’s Preparation of Man for Salvation” (1902)
[This post first appeared at GospelEncounter.wordpress.com] “The Holy Spirit is the author of every movement of man’s soul toward salvation… The Spirit of grace, which is but another name for prevenient grace, “is the sole…
The Equivocal Doctrine of the Love of God: A Critique of D. A. Carson’s The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God
Please click on the link to view “The Equivocal Doctrine of the Love of God: A Critique of D. A. Carson’s The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God” by Arminius Redivivus.
Chris Bounds, “Four Views of Salvation, Part 3: Other Views of Salvation on the Spectrum”
Please click on the link to read Chris Bounds, “Four Views of Salvation, Part 3: Other Views on Salvation on the Spectrum,” available online from Holy Joys. Chris Bounds is Dean and Professor of the…
Chris Bounds, “Four Views of Salvation, Part 2: Semi-Augustinianism and Augustinianism”
Please click on the link to read Chris Bounds, “Four Views of Salvation, Part 2: Semi-Augustinianism and Augustinianism,” available online from Holy Joys. Chris Bounds is Dean and Professor of the School of Theology &…
Chris Bounds, “Four Views of Salvation, Part 1: Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism”
Please click on the link to read Chris Bounds, “Four Views of Salvation, Part 1: Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism,” available online from Holy Joys. Chris Bounds is Dean and Professor of the School of Theology &…
Brian Abasciano’s New Book on Romans 9:19-24 Is Out, and We Have a Flyer with a 35% Discount
Brian Abasciano’s new book is out — Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9:19-24: An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis, JSNTSup/LNTS, 429; London: T&T Clark, 2022. It is out this month in electronic format…
Mark K. Olson, “The Revival and Methodist Self-Understanding”
Abstract: This second installment [you can see the first one here] examines how early Methodists understood Methodism as an eschatological movement, called to help usher in the millennium through the proclamation of salvation and holiness.…
Eric Landstrom “The Wesleyan Rejection of the Southern Baptist Distinctive of Once Saved, Always Saved (OSAS)”
The following is from a post authored by Eric Landstrom from the Society of Evangelical Arminians Private Facebook Group back on March 5th, 2021, discussing the Southern Baptist distinction of once saved, always saved (OSAS)…
A. J. Smith, “Counterfeit Conversions”
Few will dispute the fact that there is something seriously wrong with the methods employed by popular holiness evangelists and workers at the altar services. Popular evangelists have those who desire to be saved sign…
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Roy Ingle, “When Do They Become ‘Never Saved To Begin With?'”
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