All of Calvinism rests upon the concept of the Total Depravity of man.  The Calvinistic concept of Total Depravity is destroyed by how the Bible teaches repentance unto life; not life unto repentance.   In teaching that spiritual life (or, regeneration) comes before repentance towards God, the Calvinists practically claim thatRead More

The Calvinists have chosen to believe that they don’t have freewill to worship and serve God acceptably.  They often seek to persuade others to make the same choice. The Calvinist basically raises his hand to the claim that man can never raise his hand. The Calvinist will inevitably do thingsRead More

The Apostle’s exhortation for the new disciples to continue in the grace of God in Acts 13:43 would be unnecessary and insane if Calvinistic Irresistible Grace and Perseverance of the saints were true. Since the Apostles’ epistles are addressed to regenerated believers in Christ, the warnings about falling away fromRead More

Even “Mr. Faith Alone” Martin Luther’s favorite Bible verse (Romans 1:17) demonstrates that continual justification before God is conditioned upon continually living by faith. Good works, as defined by the Bible, are not a by-product of salvation.  They are rather a necessary expression of a living faith in Christ.   TheRead More

It is obvious that we all have moral standards which we expect others to follow.  However, people often excuse their own sins while condemning similar things in other people.  What we expect of others, we should insist on of ourselves.   This is what Jesus warned about in His (commonly abusedRead More

Man is under condemnation for his rebellion and sin against God.  The Son has come and given Himself for us as an acceptable offering for sin on the cross.   That is our only hope of obtaining mercy and redemption.   Titus 2:11-14: “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hathRead More

A frequent refuge for those who attempt to represent God’s grace in Christ as a license to sin is the concept of the carnal Christian.  Though we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 that Paul called the Corinthian Christians carnal, this was said as a rebuke which was intended toRead More

Those who teach unconditional security (or, once saved, always saved) doctrine think they’re clever when they try to defend their doctrine with the question “How can you lose eternal life?”  They throw out this question in a rhetorical sense to try to sound slick and to try to make thoseRead More

2 Peter 1:4 speaks of those with authentic faith in Christ as “having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” This can truly be said of anyone who is justified through Christ and thus in God’s grace at the present moment.  Sometimes that is what those whoRead More