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What today's Christian needs to know about The Greek New Testament G. W. Anderson, Editorial Manager In recent years there has been much confusion concerning modern translations and editions of the Greek New Testament. Some people make claims regarding the Greek New Testament without having information and facts to support their claims. Many people claim that their translations are accurate because those translations are based upon the best available Greek texts. Some claim that their translations are better than the Authorised Version because the Authorised Version and its underlying Greek Textus Receptus add variants and extra readings to the text....

Why, Then, do some still Believe in Selective Salvation? Important Note This section on selective salvation is 66 chapters long. If you arrived at this page via an Internet search engine, you might want to start with the first chapter. This will provide you a complete presentation of this subject. Chapter: 14.19 (Section 14: Selective Salvation) Copyright © Michael Bronson 1998 - 2003 BibleHelp.org In the previous chapter we looked at over 300 verses that say salvation is open to everyone. These verses use words like all, everyone, whoever, world, etc. If the Bible clearly states the gift of salvation...

Are You a Calvinist, Arminian, or in-between? Important Note Chapter: 14.05 (Section 14: Selective Salvation) Copyright © Michael Bronson 1998 - 2003 BibleHelp.org In the previous chapter we looked at some of the differences between Calvinism and Arminianism. We saw that both of these positions have some extreme doctrines in which most Christians are uncomfortable. This chapter will cover this problem even further. Although there are some Christians who adhere fully to Calvinism or Arminianism, most don’t. Most Christians have a hard time accepting all of the doctrines associated with either of these two views. If you were to ask...

Conditional Election Doctrine stated: God wills all men to be saved and He sincerely calls all men for salvation. According to this mode of election, all of the election Scriptures are in harmony; the full counsel of God, His integrity, and His veracity has not been compromised. God looked down the corridor of time and saw who would receive His Son as their Savior and chose them based on their free will choices. Therefore this mode of election is conditional on God's foreknowledge of man's free will choices thus; neither God's sovereignty nor man's free will has been violated. This...

THE POWER OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION By GEORGE WHITEFIELD (now with the Lord) Philippians 3:10, “That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection.” The apostle, in the verses before the text, had been cautioning the philippians to “beware of the concision,” judaizing teachers, who endeavored to subvert them from the simplicity of the gospel, by telling them, they still ought to be subject to circumcision, and all the other ordinances of moses. And that they might not think he spoke out of prejudice, and condemned their tenets, because he himself was a stranger to the Jewish dispensation, he...

HOW TO COME TO JESUS A Short, Simple Sermon on Salvation By DR. JOHN R. RICE (Now With The Lord) "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6:37) Anybody who wants to be saved can be saved right now, as you read this article. I mean the worst drunkard, the most abandoned woman, or even the person most ignorant of God and the Bible, can be saved now and know it, beyond the peradventure of a doubt, just by taking to heart the...

No Condemnation: A New Theology of Assurance. Michael Eaton. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995. 261 pp. Paper, $16.99. In a postscript to his commentary, Ecclesiastes (IVP), Eaton concluded by citing the words of Luke in Acts 17:32-34: Some . . . sneered . . . others said, 'We want to hear you again,' . . . A few . . . believed. I believe the responses to his new book will draw the same diversity. Many will sneer, others will want to know more and still others will consider the evidence and believe, as a scholar from the Reformed...

MOLINA, ARMINIUS, PLAIFERE, GOAD, AND WESLEY ON HUMAN FREE-WILL, DIVINE OMNISCIENCE, AND MIDDLE KNOWLEDGE by Barry E. Bryant Upon first glance the title of this paper contains a strange mix of individuals, one or two of whom are perhaps more obscure than the others. What each has in common with the others is a vested interest in the issue of free-will. What they also have in common is the realization that arising from the doctrine of free-will is the paradox of omniscience. The paradox of omniscience acknowledges that, while free-will relocates the responsibility of evil from Creator to creature, it...

THE WORKS OF JAMES ARMINIUS VOL. 1 by James Arminius 2 A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JAMES ARMINIUS James Arminius was born in Oudewater, a small town near Utrecht in Holland, in the year 1560. His parents were respectable persons of the middle rank in life, his father being an ingenious mechanic, by trade a cutler. His family name was Herman, or, according to some, Harmen. As was usual with learned men of that period, who either latinized their own names, or substituted for them such Latin names as agreed most nearly in sound or in signification with them,...

FALSE BIBLES An Enemy Of Soul Winning (From the book, Enemies of Soul winning) By DR. JACK HYLES NOW WITH THE LORD 1926 – 2001 In order to live as a child of God, I must have a perfect Bible. Matthew 4:4, "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Notice the words, "every word." If I have my prayers answered, I must have a perfect Bible. John 15:7, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye...

Middle Knowledge: Foreknowledge and Foreordination. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." John 4:10 (NIV) Object to Person The most common way for humans to acquire knowledge is to study external objects. The objects that surround us in the universe are the sources of this type of knowledge. In fact, this is the normal way we learn and acquire knowledge. Humans are not born with a storehouse of knowledge, so we have to acquire...

T.U.L.I.P. AND WHY I DISAGREE WITH IT By RON HOSSACK The term "Calvinism" is used by some people who do not hold Calvin's teaching on predestination and do not understand exactly what Calvin taught. Dr. Loraine Boettner in his book, 'The reformed Doctrine of Predestination', says, "The Calvinistic system especially emphasized five distinct doctrines. These are technically known as 'The Five Points of Calvinism.' And they are the main pillars upon which the superstructure rests." Dr. Boettner further says, "The five points may be more easily remembered if they are associated with the word T-U-L-I-P; T - Total Inability; U...

The Question, "What Is an Arminian?" Answered by a Lover of Free Grace by John Wesley 1. To say, "This man is an Arminian," has the same effect on many hearers, as to say, "This is a mad dog." It puts them into a fright at once: They run away from him with all speed and diligence; and will hardly stop, unless it be to throw a stone at the dreadful and mischievous animal. 2. The more unintelligible the word is, the better it answers the purpose. Those on whom it is fixed know not what to do: Not understanding...

THE EXECUTION OF SERVETUS FOR BLASPHEMY, HERESY, & OBSTINATE ANABAPTISM, DEFENDED By John Knox Are ye [the Anabaptist] able to prove, [as ye have maliciously accused us], that we teach the people not to convert from their sins and wicked imaginations, to the last hour of their departure? do we promise to all thieves and murderers the same grace and favour that David, Peter, and this thief found? I trust thy own conscience knoweth the contrary. Permit or suffer we (be they never so high) manifest offenders to live amongst us, after their own appetites? And yet ashamest thou not...

GOLDEN CHAIN or IRON PADLOCK? Vic Reasoner Romans 8:28-30 traces God’s realized purpose through the order in which it was accomplished. Each verb in this order of salvation is in the aorist tense, which refers to completed action. Yet God’s plan may be aborted at any point, just as the six steps of human responsibility in Romans 10:14-17 or the sequence of Romans 5:3-5. We have a choice and we must continually submit to his purpose. Paul "speaks as one looking back from the goal, upon the race of faith," wrote Wesley. Final salvation is reviewed from finish to start,...

FREE GRACE OR FORCED GRACE? Steve Witski In his well known sermon "Free Grace," John Wesley said that the "grace or love of God, whence cometh our salvation, is FREE IN ALL, AND FREE FOR ALL" [Works, 7:373]. In this sermon he responded directly to the Calvinist teachers of the day that taught that God’s loving grace is not free for all but irresistibly forced on only some — the elect. Wesley believed that the Scriptures did not support such a teaching. Just as in Wesley’s day, Calvinists today teach that God’s grace is not free for all but forced...

JOHN WESLEY SERMON ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT FREE GRACE PREACEHD AT BRISTOL, IN THE YEAR 1740 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" Rom. 8:32 TO THE READER Nothing but the strongest conviction, not only that what is here advanced is "the truth as it is in Jesus," but also that I am indispensably obliged to declare this truth to all the world, could have induced me openly to oppose the sentiments of those whom I esteem for their work's sake: At...

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD MUSIC By Alan Ives Alan Ives is a man of God and a Christian musician. Together with his wife Ellen he has produced some excellent music albums for God's people. Alan knows music. He is highly trained both in secular and Christian styles of music. Before conversion he played in a rock and roll band. The Ives spend much of their time traveling to churches, preaching the Word of God and ministering in music. They are in the Wyldewood Baptist Church of Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Pastor Randy King). The following message was transcribed from an...

Introduction Let me state quite simply and plainly the position for which I contend. I believe the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of the living God and because the Authorised Version is a faithful English translation of the original Hebrew of the Old Testament and the original Greek of the New Testament, it is the very Word of God in my mother tongue. Being a translation does not alter one iota of its integrity, inerrancy and infallibility as God's Word. I believe the Authorised Version preserves the Word of God for me in the English tongue and that it...

The Inspiration of the Bible -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portion taken from Dr. Paisley's book My Plea for the Old Sword -- The English Authorised Version (KJV). "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory" (I Timothy 3:16 Authorized Version). Dr. Ian Paisley The Inspiration of the Bible is a cardinal doctrine of Holy Scripture. It is all important as it sets forth the Bible as the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Now the...