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To: LiteKeeper; Irisshlass; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
LiteKeeper wrote:
How do you go from a system of salvation by Grace, to a system of salvation by works?
Who does that? These folks in the instant article are going from an incomplete system of salvation by "faith", to the true system of salvation by faith and works works in Our Lord as He instructed us!
98 posted on 08/07/2010 6:29:44 PM PDT by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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When push comes to shove, a world-view trumps a navel-view. Too often, evangelical Christians present and understand their faith in Schleiermacher’s terms, as a sub-rational intense experience. When life throws a curve-ball at you, though, and your experiences are contradicting your expectations, it takes cold, hard, theological facts to keep your life on track. If the pulpit does not offer content, our people will go where they can find some.

In another trend, many thoughtful evangelicals are also embracing the more rigorous and fact-oriented branch of our own tradition, the Calvinist approach to understanding “life, the universe, and everything.” This is causing some turmoil among Baptists — Ergun Caner, the recently disgraced and demoted dean of the Liberty University School of Theology had a passion for impugning Calvinists.


303 posted on 08/08/2010 4:30:45 AM PDT by RJR_fan (Christians need to reclaim and excel in the genre of science fiction.)
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