A. A. HODGE; revised by B. B. WARFIELD
Regeneration (from Lat. re-, again + generare, beget) is a theological term used to express the initial stage of the change experienced by one who enters upon the Christian life. It is derived from the New Testament, where the “new birth” (1 Pet. i. 3, 23; Titus iii. 5; John iii. 3 f.) is the beginning of that “renewal” which produces the “new creature.” In the history of theology the term has been used with Read the rest...
According to Arminianism, salvation is accomplished through the combined efforts of God (who takes the initiative) and man (who must respond) – man’s response being the determining factor. God has provided salvation for everyone, but His provision becomes effective only for those who, of their own free will, choose to cooperate with Him and accept His offer of grace. At the crucial point, man’s will plays a decisive role; thus man, not God, determines who will be recipients Read the rest...
The teaching of the Bible is that God did not merely plan to give salvation to those who would choose to believe, but rather that He actually determined beforehand those who would be chosen for salvation (Matthew 22:14; Acts 13:48; Romans 8:28-30; Romans 9:7-24; Ephesians 1:4-5, 11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 1:9). In other words, we respond in faith to God’s choice of us and His election of us is not based upon anything we do.
Election must be seen from God’s Read the rest...
For starters, no one is saved by good works. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not of your yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works lest any man should boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do(EPH 2:8,9)
If we are saved by Grace through faith, that grace will result in good works. In other words it is the grace of God that will lead us to do what God requires of us. Read the rest...
By Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
It is a great thing to begin the Christian life by believing good solid doctrine. Some people have received twenty different “gospels” in as many years; how many more they will accept before they get to their journey’s end, it would be difficult to predict. I thank God that He early taught me the gospel, and I have been so perfectly satisfied with it, that I do not want to know any other.
Why, if I believed what some Read the rest...
The Canon of Dort (“The Five Points of Calvinism”)
Five theological points were formulated to answer the Remonstrants in a document known as the Canon of Dort, which declared:
Quotes from Paul Crouch
Christians are little gods. (Praise the Lord (TBN), redorded 7/7/86)
God draws no distinction between Himself and us.
God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it. (Praise-a-thon (TBN), November 1990)
Paul Crouch will shoot heresy hunters (theology) if God doesn’t (Praise-a-thon (TBN), Read the rest...
Jesus Did Not Come As God And Was Not Perfect!
If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint him? If Jesus – See God’s already anointed. If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint him? Jesus came as a man, that’s why it was legal to anoint Him. God doesn’t need anointed. He is anointing. Jesus came as a man and at age thirty, God is now getting ready to demonstrate to us and give us an example of what a man with the anointing can do.
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After 9 years of giving, man has no Chrysler, no wife, no wealth
By Carolyn Tuft
Bob Schneller gave to Joyce Meyer until it hurt. Nine years later, he says, it still aches.
He’s out of money, out of a marriage and out of faith with televangelists.
Schneller, 59, lives alone in a 600-square-foot, early-model mobile home in House Springs. He’s surrounded by videotapes of televangelists. He says he studies the tapes to learn how he was taken in by Read the rest...
