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The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 4)
Part One Part Two Part Three One Gospel, One Birth, One Standing, One Savior The System Assessed and the Alternative Declared John Wesley was a man responding to real and observable spiritual decay — the deadness of the Church of England (COE) was not imaginary, and his zeal for genuine holiness was […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 3)
Part One Part Two Wesley’s Incoherent System: Baptismal Regeneration, Apostasy, and the Second Blessing Very few modern Wesleyans and Methodists deal with or consider at all their historical and theological foundations in baptismal regeneration. What has happened across the spectrum of Wesleyan and Methodist denominations is not a careful theological resolution of the contradiction […]
Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part two)
Part One Rampant Corruption of Belief Belief is a very malleable concept. It’s easy to manipulate by people. Churches and their leaders can offer the results of belief for something less and far less than belief. They evoke the promises of God for those who believe, yet without the actual believing. Nothing could be of […]
The Church Fathers Are NotThe Church Fathers (Part Two)
Part One Proper Evaluation of History God promised the preservation of scripture, but not the preservation of history. Since God promised the preservation of scripture, He insures that with a high level of divine intervention. The Bible says much about this. Since God doesn’t promise to preserve history, we must judge history in a different […]
Calvinism, Unconditional Election and Baptismal Regeneration
Did you know that there is a connection between the heresy of the baptismal regeneration of infants and unconditional election and reprobation in Calvinism? In the chapter “Calvinism is Augstinianism,” by Kenneth Wilson, in the book Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique, ed. David L. Allen & Steve W. Lemke (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2022), […]
John the Baptist’s Diminishment of His Own Water Baptism in Matthew 3
Matthew 3 provides the New Testament introduction of the forerunner of Jesus Christ, John the Baptist. While John preached in the wilderness of Judea, the Pharisees and Sadducees came out to him for the purpose of baptism in the Jordan River. Matthew 3:7-12 read: 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees […]
Baptismal Regeneration: Acts 22:16
Requiring Baptism for Salvation Definition and Denominations “Baptismal Regeneration” in its definition at Wikipedia says: Baptismal regeneration is the name given to doctrines held by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican churches, and other Protestant denominations which maintain that salvation is intimately linked to the act of baptism, without necessarily holding that salvation […]
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