For Part 4, click here: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 4: God Condemns Us to Hell Because We’re Not Perfect? Or start at the beginning: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a…
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The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 5: Jesus Paid the Penalty For Our Sins?
Tagged with: atonement, divine justice, faith alone, pay the penalty, Penal Substitution, Protestantism, salvation, sin, sola fide, Vicarious Atonement
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 4: God Condemns Us to Hell Because We’re Not Perfect?
For Part 3, click here: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 3: It’s Impossible to Satisfy God? Or start at the beginning: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a Trinity of Persons? Based…
Tagged with: angry God, divine love, faith alone, God's wrath, hell, perfection, sin, sola fide, wrathful God
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 3: It’s Impossible to Satisfy God?
For Part 2, click here: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 2: Original Sin? Or start at the beginning: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a Trinity of Persons? After stating (falsely) that we…
Tagged with: divine justice, faith alone, good deeds, good works, perfection, Protestantism, righteousness, salvation, sin, sola fide
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 2: Original Sin?
For Part 1, click here: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a Trinity of Persons? The doctrine of Original Sin is another faulty foundation of faith alone that predates Protestantism. Like the Trinity of Persons, it is…
Tagged with: Adam, Adam and Eve, born evil, evil, faith alone, John Calvin, Martin Luther, original sin, Protestantism, salvation, sin
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a Trinity of Persons?
When Martin Luther (1483–1546) made his big break from the Roman Catholic Church, he originated a new doctrine, which he set up as the foundation stone of Protestant belief. That doctrine is “justification by faith alone,” also known by its…
Tagged with: faith alone, Father Son and Holy Spirit, Martin Luther, Protestantism, salvation, sola fide, the Father, the Trinity, Trinity of Persons
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Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Are We Saved in an Instant? How was the Thief on the Cross Saved?
The previous article, “How Can a Criminal Get to Heaven?” brought on a whirlwhind of comments about the Protestant belief in salvation by faith alone vs. the belief of the rest of Christianity in salvation by faith together with works.…
Tagged with: Christianity, evil, faith, faith alone, fundamentalism, God, heaven, salvation, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible, thieves on the cross
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Posted in Spiritual Growth
What is the biblical basis against Sola Fide (salvation by faith alone, apart from works)?
Here is a question that was asked on Christianity StackExchange, as linked at the end of this article: One of the key points of the Reformation was the doctrine of Sola Fide: that salvation is by faith alone, apart from…
Tagged with: Christianity, faith alone, faith in Jesus, Martin Luther, Protestantism, salvation, sola fide, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Faith Alone Is Not Faith
My post two weeks ago titled “Faith Alone Does Not Save . . . No Matter How Many Times Protestants Say It Does” drew a strong reaction. Most of the reaction was positive. But since the article assailed a fundamental defining and…
Tagged with: Christianity, faith, faith alone, faith in Jesus, faithfulness, Jesus Christ, Protestantism, salvation, service, sola fide, the Bible, truth
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Faith Alone Does Not Save . . . No Matter How Many Times Protestants Say It Does
“We are saved by faith alone.” The Bible doesn’t say it. In fact, the Bible rejects it. It was not part of Christian belief for the first 1,500 years of Christianity. Even today, only about one-fifth of Christians belong to…
Tagged with: Christianity, faith alone, faith in Jesus, Jesus Christ, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Protestantism, salvation, sola fide, the Bible, The Law, the works of the Law
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
The Bible Doesn’t Say It!
I’ve written a new article on “Christian Beliefs” that the Bible Doesn’t Teach. Its purpose is to show that many old, traditional, and common “Christian beliefs” are not actually taught in the Bible, even though many people think they are. This…
Tagged with: biblical inerrancy, Christian beliefs, Christianity, faith, faith alone, fundamentalism, God, Jesus Christ, pay the penalty, the Bible, the Trinity, Trinity of Persons, Vicarious Atonement
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Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
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