Zane Hodges – 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

Was Zane Hodges’s View of the Saving Message Misguided, Anemic, Inconsistent, and Evasive? Part 1

March 22, 2023 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Repentance, saving faith, 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.” 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

Did You Know That an Accredited Seminary Teaches a Course on Free Grace Theology?

March 23, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Free Grace Theology, Zane Hodges

Free Grace Theology (FGT) is propagated primarily through a fantastic group of local churches. Most Bible colleges and seminaries teach either works salvation or some form of Lordship Salvation. As a result, most local churches do as well. But there are pastors who have come to believe and teach FGT! And we rejoice in that.

El vencedor

February 28, 2022 by Zane Hodges in Su Gracia Gratuita - Perseverancia, Reinar con Cristo, Vencedor, Zane Hodges

Extraído de su libro The Journey of Faith: Sermons on Hebrews [El Camino de la fe: sermones sobre Hebreos] Al que venciere y guardare mis obras hasta el fin, yo le daré autoridad sobre las naciones, y las regirá con vara de hierro, y serán quebradas como vaso de alfarero; como yo también la he

El arrepentimiento – capítulo 12 del libro “Absolutamente gratuita” Parte 7

February 14, 2022 by Zane Hodges in Su Gracia Gratuita - Arrepentimiento, Seguridad Eterna, Zane Hodges

Esta es la traducción del capítulo del libro de Zane Hodges Absolutely Free (Absolutamente gratuita) que trata el tema del arrepentimiento en el contexto del mensaje salvador. Puedes consultar la parte 6 aquí. Conclusión De lo que hemos visto en este capítulo, debemos concluir que el llamado al arrepentimiento es más amplio que el llamado

Zane Hodges and the Promise of Everlasting Life

February 19, 2021 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance of Salvation, John 4:10-14, Zane Hodges

Zane Hodges departed this life in November of 2008. In the dozen years since then, many people have suggested that he changed his view of the saving message. Many pointed to a 2006 message in which he argued that a person is not born again until he is sure that he is eternally secure by

Did Zane Hodges Believe That Saving Faith Is Intellectual Assent?

July 11, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Faith, Lordship Salvation, saving faith, Wayne Grudem, Zane Hodges

As I mentioned in an earlier blog (see here), Dave Anderson argues in the book A Defense of Free Grace Theology that Wayne Grudem’s view of saving faith is essentially that of nearly all Free Grace advocates. Anderson even goes so far as to suggest that Zane Hodges agreed with Grudem’s view. Zane Hodges was

The Overcomer

November 16, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Overcomer, Perseverance, Reign with Christ, Zane Hodges

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from The Journey of Faith, Sermons on Hebrews And he who overcomes, and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations-‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have receive from

Justification before God Is by Faith Alone, Completely Apart from Works, Romans 3:26

November 3, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - justification by faith, Pauline Theology, Works, Zane Hodges

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from his commentary on Romans The result of the death of Christ on the cross is that God can be righteous and justify the person who has faith in Jesus. The English necessarily obscures an obvious Greek word play, since the Greek words for righteous (dikaion) and justify (dikaiounta) are cognates

Rewards, Antithetical to Grace?

October 25, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Grace, rewards, Works, Zane Hodges

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from an article originally published in the Autumn 1991 edition of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Among the very last recorded words of our Lord Jesus Christ are these: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his