Continuous assurance depends on continuous faith.

Jack Cottrell is an Arminian theologian. If you want to read a serious Arminian, start with him. Cottrell wrote a summary of his beliefs—a short systematic theology—called His Truth: Scriptural […]

Salvation requires a moment of faith, not continuous faith.

Jack Cottrell is an Arminian writer and theologian. He writes from within the Stone-Campbell tradition. If you’d like to read an Arminian who believes in inerrancy and tries to be […]

Give Paige Patterson a Fair Hearing

Paige Patterson was recently demoted, then fired, as President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. There was intense one-sided coverage, followed by a quick decision by SWBTS. Personally, I’m always suspicious […]

June 5, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Good, James, Sin
What good haven’t you done_

The idea that James teaches the necessity of good works to be eternally saved comes up against a very strong objection: James says that absolutely no one is qualified to […]

How Will All Be Made Alive_

First Corinthians 15:22 is a favorite verse for univeralists: For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive (1 Cor 15:22). Universalists say that […]

Key Assumptions About Total Depravity

J. I. Packer, the famed Reformed Anglican theologian, has written more book forewords than anyone I know. It seems that every book published by a Calvinist either has a foreword […]

ChristiansNeed Discipline

I took my kids to a newly opened splash pad or “sprayground” in town. It opened on May 12th. I took them the next day, on May 13th. What is […]

Where is Tartarus_

The Bible is much stranger than people allow. That’s where theology can go wrong—by trying to make it less strange than it is. I have been exploring the topic of […]

John Welsey

  I’ve been reading through John Wesley’s journals and diaries for the years 1735-1738. They are fascinating. It’s interesting to read about his travels to America during this time; his […]

What isthe good” you must do to be raised from the dead_

  Q. Doesn’t John 5:28-29 show that doing good works is a condition of salvation? How do you understand it? A. Good question. Taken on its own, that can be […]

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