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Jack Cottrell Hopes He Will Keep Believing

June 11, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Arminian, Arminianism, Assurance, Continuous faith, Cottrell

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 Truths About Basic Doctrines. The last chapter is on assurance. At the beginning of the chapter, he identified two prominent errors regarding assurance. The first

Jack Cottrell Confuses Eternal Security and Perseverance

June 7, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Arminian, Continuous faith, Cottrell

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 a Biblical theologian, I recommend his work (though, not all his conclusions!). His Truth: Scriptural Truths About Basic Doctrines is Cottrell’s short (116 pages) summary

Is Eternal Security Essential to Saving Faith? — The Arminian Question

December 15, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Arminian, eternal life, Eternal Security, Salvation

Do Arminians believe the saving message? Someone asked that question in light of their denial of the doctrine of eternal security. Actually, some Arminians even say that eternal security is positively evil (see here)! What is the saving message? It is Jesus’ promise of eternal life. And this is the promise that He has promised