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Showing posts with label Calvinism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calvinism. Show all posts
Friday, December 19, 2025

On the Penal Satisfaction Theory of Atonement

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  The question must be answered, WHY IS THE ATONEMENT NECESSARY? Who or what demanded it? We pass by the first answer, that it was necessar...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Among Those For Whom Jesus Prayed

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"Father, that which thou hast given me, I will that, where I am, they also may be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou ha...
Friday, May 1, 2015

The Holy Spirit and Conscience

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Prof. Whewell, in his "Moral Philosophy," asserts that every human volition expressive of a choice has a moral character which wou...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

On Ecclesiastes 7:20

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QUESTION: Explain Eccl. 7:20, "For there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not." ANSWER: This is a defe...
Friday, September 5, 2014

The Highest Possibilities of Grace Divine

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Sin paralyzes the will even where it fails to put a film over the eye. In the downfall of our race, in the transgression of our first parent...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Irresistible Conversions?

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QUESTION: Does God irresistibly convert men temporarily, suspending the free will for that purpose? ANSWER: Never either in this world nor i...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

A Deeper Death?

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QUESTION: Does the Bible teach that after we are wholly sanctified there is yet a deeper death? ANSWER: This question has the odor of Plymou...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Are We Responsible for Original Sin?

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QUESTION: Are we not responsible for inbred sin? ANSWER: I cannot he responsible for any inborn quality. But when I find that there is a per...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

On the Temptation of Jesus

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QUESTION: (1) Does temptation imply a desire on our part to do wrong? (2) If so, was Jesus tempted in that manner? (3) Had Jesus freedom of ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Can Repentance Based on Fear be Genuine?

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QUESTION: Can repentance be genuine, if based upon hope of reward or fear of punishment? Is the following sentence true, "Virtue founde...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

On The Penal Satisfaction Theory of the Atonement

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The [penal satisfaction] theory [of the atonement] for three hundred years widely prevailed in both branches of orthodoxy — Calvinism and Ar...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Is Self-Loathing Piety Necessary?

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Growth in grace, while accompanied by increasing power to abstain from actual sin, has no power to annihilate the spirit of sin, commonly ca...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

How Could Jesus Be Tempted?

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QUESTION: Could Jesus be tempted in all points like as we are tempted without a sinful nature? ANSWER: Exegetes disagree about the limitat...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Dogma Divides, Christian Feeling Unites

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The language of Christian feeling can never be successfully counterfeited. The language of the dry intellect, the language of the head, may ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The Gospel as Preached by John Wesley

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Guest blog from Methodist Bishop W. F. Mallalieu (1828-1911)   The Gospel as preached by Wesley and those who imitate him, appeals with pecu...