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1 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | John Reformed | 60814 | ||
Emmaus, I don't like the idea that salvation requires anything in addittion to faith because I see it as detracting from the atonement of Christ by saying His death on the cross is in itself insufficient. Why do you so strongly dislike the doctrine of "saved by faith alone"? |
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2 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Sir Pent | 60877 | ||
A Different View ....................................... Dear John, I know that your question was not addressed to me, but when I read it, I had a thought that I really wanted to share with you. The Calvinist perspective often gets hung up on the idea that if a human has to “accept” God’s free gift of salvation, then it takes away from the sovreignity of God or the effectiveness of Christ’s sacrifice. I do not believe that this hang up is neccessary. ....................................... Rather than seeing Christ’s sacrifice to be insufficient, and perceiving that as a bad thing, why not look at it as a grace of God instead. Here’s what I mean. God is almighty, and He COULD have made Christ’s death on the cross completely sufficient for salvation regardless of how any particular human responded to it. God could have said that because Christ died for the sins of the world then Tom over here is going to believe in Me and be saved no matter what Tom’s personal choice would have been. Meanwhile I will leave Jerry over there unable to believe in Me, and Jerry will go to hell, regardless of what his personal choice would have been. In my understanding this is the Calvinist perspective. My point is that God had the ability and COULD have set things up that way. ....................................... However, I believe that instead God chose to have Christ’s death on the cross be sufficient to take away the sins of anyone who accepted that forgiveness. This does not take away from God’s sovereignity at all. It is not that God was unable to save people without their “help” (even using the Calvinist perspective that simply accepting a gift is “help” or “work”). Instead it is that God chose to have salvation work that way. He could have set it up either way; He is in total control. Arminians just believe that He set things up to allow His creation to truly choose whether to love God and have a relationship with Him or not. |
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3 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | srbaegon | 60878 | ||
Hello Sir Pent I know that your question was not addressed to me, but... (you know the rest). John or Joe are free to correct me here, but I believe your conclusion as stated is the very close to the Calvinistic view and that your assumed Calvinistic view is actually hyper-Calvinism. Steve |
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