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1 | Receiving Christ - Works? | Bible general Archive 2 | Huron | 92945 | ||
I need a little help with a question: My brother (great guy) tells me that "decision theology" is wrong. I disagree because I believe that everyone must make a decision about Christ. He states that a decision would be "works", and that we are spiritually dead before the renewing/rebirth therefore we can't do anything ourselves to effect salvation. I realize that we are saved by grace through faith per Ephesians 2.8,9 and Titus 3.5, but there are MANY verses in the Bible like John 1.12, 3.16, and Revelation 3.20 that talk of "receiving Christ." I tried to tell him that he is right, it's not by works BUT making a decision (or accepting Christ) is not works. Kind of like accepting a rope tossed out to you if you were drowning. The drowning person is NOT saving himself, BUT must receive the rope. He keeps telling me that decision theology "cheapens God's grace". Who is right? I'm seriously outclassed in this debate because he's got Greek lexicons/dictionaries/commontaries ad naseum, and I'm a Bible only type guy. Thanks! |
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2 | Receiving Christ - Works? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 92946 | ||
Huron, Tell him that life itself is a gift or grace from God and so is our ability to respond to God. How could he deny that? Our very existence and everything associated with it, even our ability to "work" however you define it, is pure grace. Emmaus |
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3 | works law? | Bible general Archive 2 | Huron | 92981 | ||
Emmaus, Good stuff. Anything on how receiving is not "works". I don't see how anyone can compare receiving or believing with the works of the Law, but people do.... |
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4 | works law? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 92982 | ||
Huron, Well, there is no accounting for what some people believe and no argument that will covince them. I would pose the question let him mull it over for a decade or two and refuse to accept any irrational response he may give as irrational. For extra credit you may want to look into the philospohical concept of Nominalism as it has been applied to theology for about 600 years. That is at the root of the problem here. I would guess your brother is a Monergistic Calvinist, with influences from Karl Barth also. Emmaus |
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5 | works law? | Bible general Archive 2 | Huron | 95383 | ||
I've been out of town. Thanks for the answer. It gives me something to research. | ||||||