September 2, 2009

• questions / thoughts-in-progress about salvation theology

  (thoughts-in-progress... maybe some day I'll flesh it out into fuller form)

   

  problems:   (question- why are these often seen together in churches, despite seeming opposite upon first glance?  answer: common tie: overly high view of man and human freedom)

  #1 - easy believism / 'just say the prayer' salvation / non-lordship-salvation

  #2 - works-oriented christian life / Galatians3 / emphasis on practical 'do, do, do' / 'higher-life' / victorious-living-formula  (elder-brother-ism)

   

  antidotes:

  #1 - Lordship-salvation / count the cost / parable of the soils / 1 John / James 2   .... implications... only god can open a person's heart to believe (#2)

  #2 - Preaching God's grace.... Romans 3.... 4,.... 5, 6, 7,.... 8.... Galatians 3... Pharisee vs Tax-collector...  2 Tim. 2:19...   implications: such radical complete love, when understood/believed, produces 100% surrender/allegiance... (#1)

   

  avoid other sides of the pendulums:

  #1a - catholic/mormon 'works necessary for salvation' (justification)

  #1b - constant questioning whether one is saved after every sinful thought/action

  #2a - licenteousness / antinomianism / younger-brother-ism

  #2b - hypercalvinistic fatalism / overemphasis on predestination without giving the Biblical commands to believe, trust, repent, "produce works in keeping with repentance", "believe in God who justifies the ungodly", etc

   

   

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