Giving Up is Hard to Do

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“Easy Believism.” That is one of the more common pejorative labels given to the Grace Gospel these days. The implication is that anything that’s as easy as simply believing can’t be that valuable. If we don’t put a high price on salvation, then people won’t appreciate it enough. Rather than simply invite people to believe
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Soteriological Implications of Five-Point Calvinism

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I. Introduction The theological issues relating to the doctrines of election and salvation have been covered extensively in recent years. Basically, there are four views on election: 1) God elected those individuals who would be saved based on His foreknowledge that they would believe; 2) God unconditionally elected individuals He would save based on His
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Salvation by the Installment Plan?

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Many Bible teachers are fond of a saying that goes like this: “You are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.” Doesn’t that sound neat? It states a fundamental truth–that we are saved by faith alone–then turns around and states that while it is faith alone that saves us, that
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