The Spirit’s Application of the Atonement This Unity is further seen in the fact that the Holy Ghost administered every blessing as the special application of the Atonement. 1. As to Himself in His relation…
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Please click on the link to view Wayne Hancock, “Salvation and Judgment in the Gospel According to John: An Exegetical Analysis of John 3:14-21”. The paper argues that John 3:14-21 provides a summary of John’s…
Mark K. Olson, “Penal Substitution in John Wesley’s Atonement Theology”
[To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction In…
Does 1 Corinthians 2:14 Imply That Regeneration Precedes Faith?
On his website, Arminian Perspectives, Ben Henshaw has a questions page at which he answers questions about Arminianism and Calvinism that visitors to his site pose in the comment section of the page. Here is a question…
William Burt Pope’s Introduction to the State of Salvation and Discussion of the Unity of Gospel Privileges
Please click on the link to view William Burt Pope’s Introduction to the State of Salvation and Discussion of the Unity of Gospel Privileges from pp. 391-93 of the second volume of his 3-volume systematic…
Richard Coords, “Genesis 3:8-16”
“They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the…
Roy Ingle, “Four Things For Assurance of our Salvation”
Often those who believe and defend the doctrine of eternal security or perseverance of the saints contend that to not embrace such a teaching will not just affect the nature of justification (by grace through…
Gordon Fee on Prevenient Grace and the Spirit’s Role in Proclamation
These quotations are from Gordon D. Fee, God’s Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul (Baker Academic, 2009): Regarding 1 Thes 1:5-6: “They became converts (v. 5) not on the basis of…
Gordon Fee on Election
These quotes are all from Gordon D. Fee, The Kingdom of God is Among You: Lectures to My Students on New Testament Theology (Cascade Books, 2025), p. 270: “The biblical teaching about God’s holy people…
William Burt Pope on the History of Debate Over Preliminary Grace
Please click on the link to view William Burt Pope on the History of Debate Over Preliminary Grace from pp. 386-90 of the second volume of his 3-volume systematic theology, A Compendium of Christian Theology.…
Gordon Fee on Continuance in Salvation
“We should note also that for Paul ‘salvation in Christ’ included both ‘getting in’ and ‘staying in’; that is, Paul’s view of ‘getting saved’ had to do with faith in Christ that also includes ‘faithfulness’…
Video: “Baptismal Regeneration?”
Dan Chapa hosts Lucas Curcio and Andrew Hnatiuk to discuss baptismal regeneration in relation to Scripture and in Methodism. The video below can also be accessed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/9Tjtg2M5SLs.
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Roy Ingle, “Don’t Lose Your Passion In Hating Sin”
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your…
William Burt Pope, “The Relations of Repentance and Faith”
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Steve Witzki, “A Preliminary Defense of Prevenient Grace”
The work of conversion is always initiated by the grace of God. John Wesley believed that God’s prevenient grace was intended to be for all people. He said “the grace or love of God, whence…
How Would You Answer the Assertion That the Sinner Is So Depraved That He Cannot Do Anything in the Direction of God Based on Romans 8:7-8?
On his website, Arminian Perspectives, Ben Henshaw has a questions page at which he answers questions about Arminianism and Calvinism that visitors to his site pose in the comment section of the page. Here is a question from…
Mark K. Olson, “John Wesley on Assurance of Salvation”
John Wesley on Assurance of Salvation Assurance of salvation is a vital topic for anyone who desires to be with Christ in eternity. A young man once asked Jesus, “What good thing must I do…
Richard Coords, “Genesis 2:16”
“The Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the…
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