salvation
Biblical defense and explanation of salvation, grace, faith, and redemption.
EARLY CHURCH ON PUBLICLY CONFESSING SINS Paid Members Public
The following has been adapted from the Catholic Answer’s article, which can be accessed here: What the Early Church Believed: Confession. Over time, the forms in which the sacrament of confession has been administered have changed. In the early Church, publicly known sins (such as apostasy) were often confessed
EPHESIANS 1 AND WATER BAPTISM Paid Members Public
This will be a short post where I refute the abuse and misuse of Ephesians 1:13-14 by heretics who seek to deny that water baptism regenerates: “In Him, you also, after listening to the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in
AUGUSTINE & JOHN DAMASCENE VS. CALVINISTS PT. 1 Paid Members Public
It is time again to show how the beliefs of some of the early church’s greatest scholars, theologians, apologists, philosophers, martyrs etc., directly conflict with Protestantism in general, and with Calvinism in particular. In this segment, I will show how the views of both Augustine and John the Damascene
THE PROMISED SEED WHO BLESSES THE WORLD Paid Members Public
In this post I will set out to prove that God’s promise to send forth a Seed to both crush the head of the enemy and to bless the nations is none other than Jesus Christ our Lord. THE SEED OF THE WOMAN After the serpent tempted Adam and
MESSIANIC PROPHECIES HIDDEN FROM SATAN Paid Members Public
The Holy Scriptures teach that God’s plan of redeeming mankind by the cross of Christ was something hidden from the rulers of this evil age: “Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age
MEDIATING AND INTERCEDING BEFORE THE ONE MEDIATOR AND INTERCESSOR Paid Members Public
The God-breathed Scriptures exhort believers to pray and intercede for the salvation of all mankind since they have one mediator who has offered himself as a ransom to procure the redemption of the entire human race: “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks
CHRIST’S FAITHFULNESS AS AN EXAMPLE OF SAVING FAITH Paid Members Public
In this post I will provide further evidence that saving faith according to the Holy Bible is defined as faithfulness to the Lord Jesus. I will use Christ’s own faithfulness as an example. For instance, note how the following versions rendering a key text that is often employed in
BIBLICAL VERSES ON FAITHFULNESS/OBEDIENCE Paid Members Public
Here’s an older version of this article: TRUE FAITH IS FAITHFULNESS AND OBEDIENCE PT. 1. In this relatively short post, I will highlight verses which testify that saving faith is being faithful to obey God’s commandments. Note, for instance, what John wrote in his inspired Gospel: “But to