Was Zane Hodges’s View of the Saving Message Misguided, Anemic, Inconsistent, and Evasive? Part 2 

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A 2019 doctoral paper by Nicholas James Claxton (available online—see here) is entitled “Faith Without Works: The Gospel According to Zane Hodges.” In part 1, we considered Claxton’s first three objections to Hodges. Now we will discuss his other four objections: 4. “To limit the content of faith to Christ’s guarantee of eternal life seems
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Was Zane Hodges’s View of the Saving Message Misguided, Anemic, Inconsistent, and Evasive? Part 1

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A 2019 doctoral paper by Nicholas James Claxton (available online—see here) is entitled “Faith Without Works: The Gospel According to Zane Hodges.” Claxton’s paper is irenic in tone. In his conclusion, he raises seven objections to the views and exegetical method of Hodges. I’ll briefly answer three objections in part one and the other four
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Is Everlasting Life Everlasting?

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Chris from West Virginia asks an important question: I found myself Googling, “What is eternal life in Greek,” and stumbled upon a Quora forum where someone had asked the same question. The first answer…I found [was] not only concerning, but confusing. Does Eternal Life NOT mean eternal life? Chris gave a lengthy quote that can
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