Theology of Salvation (soterology)
Did Christ Go to Hell?
Monday, June 14th, 2010Did Christ go to Hell between His Death and Resurrection? What did Christ mean when He said to the thief on the cross. “Today you shall be with me in Paradise”? (Luke 23:43), “It is finished” (John 19:30) or “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit” (Luke 23:46), If Christ meant that the repentant [...]
The Hereisy of Kenotic Theology
Monday, December 7th, 2009The Heresy of Kenotic Theology See http://kenosis.info “Kenosis” is a Greek term taken from Philipians. 2:7, where Christ is spoken of as having “emptied himself” (RSV) and taken human form. Kenotic theology can be said to have begun as a serious form of reflection on Christology in the works of Gottfried Thomasius (1802 – 75), [...]
Monergism
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Monergism: In regeneration, the Holy Spirit unites us to Christ independent of any cooperation from our unregenerated human nature. He quickens us through the outward call cast forth by the preaching of His Word, disarms our innate hostility, removes our blindness, illumines our mind, creates understanding, turns our heart of stone to a heart of [...]
The 5 “Sola’s”
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Sola Scriptura (“by Scripture alone”) Sola scriptura is the teaching that the Bible is the only inspired and authoritative Word of God, is the only source for Christian doctrine, and is accessible to all — that is, it is perspicuous and self-interpreting. That the Bible requires no interpretation outside of itself is an idea directly [...]