Ruling with Christ – Grace Evangelical Society

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

March 23, 2023 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Perseverance, Ruling with Christ, Zane Hodges

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

What Can Eternally Secure Believers Lose? Reigning with Christ

July 28, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Eternal Security, Once saved always saved, rewards, Ruling with Christ

What can an eternally secure believer lose due to sin? Jesus once told the Parable of the Minas, in which a nobleman went to a far country to receive a kingdom (guess Who that is?). And before he went, he left his servants (guess whom they represent?) with some money to invest, charging them to

The Image of God and Ruling with Christ

June 16, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - anthropology, Heiser, image of God, Ruling with Christ, the doctrine of man

What is the image of God? I have read just about every different theory you can imagine trying to identify the nature of the image of God. I have seen candidates such as being self-aware, or intelligent, or capable of speech, or capable of love, or having a soul, or (as Karl Barth suggested) being

Deny Christ and Ruling with Him

June 5, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Timothy 2:12, confessing Christ, denying Christ, Matthew 10:32-33, Ruling with Christ

Some Free Grace people are very sophisticated in the questions they ask. A solid Free Grace person knows about the doctrine of eternal rewards and may have some concerns in that regard that others would have concerning their salvation. I received an interesting question from an actual handwritten letter. Larry asks, “Anyway, my question is

Can We Be Sure in This Life That We Will Rule with Christ?

February 6, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Tim 4:6-8, Assurance, Eternal Rewards, Ruling with Christ

I received the following excellent question via email: Thank you for your daily blogs. They are (for the most part) a great encouragement. I’m still not on board with your women in ministry position. Today’s blog was great, and it raised a question for me.  Near the end you said, “I am a cracked pot. While