salvation
Biblical defense and explanation of salvation, grace, faith, and redemption.
THE MESSIAH AND ISRAEL’S SINS Paid Members Public
This will be a very short post. According to the Aramaic paraphrase of Micah 4:8, the Messiah was hidden from Israel because of their sins: וְאַתְּ מְשִׁיחָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל דְטָמִיר מִן קֳדָם חוֹבֵ
PUBLIC CONFESSION OF SINS Paid Members Public
In the epistle of James, believers are commanded to confess their sins to one another in the context of receiving forgiveness of those transgressions and/or healing from any illnesses that may have resulted from those sins: “Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He
JOHN 3:16 VERSUS LIMITED ATONEMENT Paid Members Public
According to one of the most famous passages of the Holy Bible God sent his only-begotten into the world to save it so that whoever chooses to believe in the Son will be spared from perishing and be granted everlasting life: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
MACARTHUR ON JOHN 3:16 Paid Members Public
The following post is taken from this site: Does God So Love the World? – Grace to You with John. All emphasis will be mine. John MacArthur Love is the best known but least understood of all God’s attributes. Almost everyone who believes in God these days sees Him as
JOHN’S PROLOGUE VS. LIMITED ATONEMENT Paid Members Public
In this post I will demonstrate from what is typically called by scholars the prologue of John, i.e., 1:1-18, the falsity of limited atonement, which is an unbiblical tradition held on to by some (not) all Calvinists. The reason for doing so is that both reformed and non-reformed
TURRETIN ATONEMENT DEBATE Paid Members Public
These are some of the notes for my debate with Turretinfan on the whether the Holy Bible teaches limited atonement. I will be citing Calvinist scholars, including John Calvin, all of whom acknowledge that the texts which I quote conclusively prove that Christ died for the sins of the entire
TURRETIN ATONEMENT DEBATE PT. 2 Paid Members Public
Here’s the link to the first part: TURRETIN ATONEMENT DEBATE. THE ELECT ARE BORN OBJECTS OF WRATH Specific Calvinists erroneously interpret texts where Christ is said to have propitiated God to mean that God’s anger has been completely removed, and therefore is no longer angry at sinners (cf.
CHRIST: THE WORLD’S INTERCESSOR Paid Members Public
Specific Calvinists argue that Christ’s atoning death is tied in with his intercessory work. From this fact they erroneously assume that since Christ intercedes for everyone that he died for, Jesus must not have died for the whole world. Otherwise, this would imply that Jesus is interceding for all