salvation

Biblical defense and explanation of salvation, grace, faith, and redemption.

SOLA FIDE IN CLEMENT? Members Public

Certain Protestant theologians and/or apologists have been desperate to find some justification (pun intended!) for Luther’s doctrine of Sola Fide by quote-mining the early church writers. They do this in order to show that Luther’s teaching on justification wasn’t something novel, or completely unheard of, which

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IGNATIUS, POLYCARP & SOLA FIDE Members Public

Ignatius and Polycarp were two holy martyrs of Christ who were personally trained by the Apostles and therefore learned the faith directly from the very eyewitnesses of our risen Lord. These men were given the privileged and meeting with and learning directly from Apostles such as Peter, Paul and John.

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MARTIN LUTHER, JAMES & NT CANON Members Public

The following is taken from this post, “Luther’s Treatment of the Disputed Books of the New Testament”. I include it here in its entirety since it exposes Martin Luther’s disdain of James and a few other NT writings simply because he felt they did not agree (and could

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HOW MANY DIVINE SAVIORS ARE THERE? Members Public

In this post I will seek to establish from the God-breathed Scriptures that there is only one God who is able to save from sin, and that Jesus Christ is expressly described as the God who saves those who trust in him from their transgressions. I will further show how

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HOW MANY DIVINE SAVIORS ARE THERE? PT.2 Members Public

I continue from where I previously left off: HOW MANY DIVINE SAVIORS ARE THERE?. WHAT KIND OF BEING MUST JESUS BE? Now the only way that the Man Christ Jesus could ever be portrayed as saving individuals from their transgressions is if he is himself is YHWH God who became

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Sam Shamoun
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THE TRUE GOD BECOMES A HUMAN MEDIATOR! Members Public

The Apostle Paul wrote to exhort believers to pray for the salvation of all men since God desires to save the whole human race, which is why he sent Christ to become a human mediator who offered up his life as a ransom for mankind:    “First of all, then, I

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GOD MADE JESUS A SIN-OFFERING Members Public

The God-breathed Scriptures teach that Jesus became sin for us so that we might become righteous in God’s sight: “that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for

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EARLY CHURCH ON SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Members Public

The following is taken from EWTN’s article which can be accessed here: Sacrament of Penance in the Early Church. Author: Fr. William Most SACRAMENT OF PENANCE IN THE EARLY CHURCH 1. Epistle of Pope St. Clement, probably c 95 AD: 51.3: “For it is good for a person

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