I have a high regard for Calvinism, since it saved me from (hyper)-Arminianism, experienced by me as the Holiness movement. This movement is the child of Wesleyan Holiness, whose major error is the idea of Total Sanctification (that we can reach complete sanctification before death...
1. A Brief History of My Communities My childhood was spent within a family whose ideology can be characterized as agnostic, scientific, and feminist. My parents divorced when I was 3 years old, and I never saw my father again until I found him at...
If your faith does not give you rest and peace, you may be missing the central message of the Gospel. The gospel provides rest for us in three phases: The Past – God resolves our guilt, our sins, and our bitterness by forgiving us The...
The Catholic Church is not the only part of the Christian Church that has problems with sexual abuse. As Kathryn Joyce reveals in her new piece in The American Prospect, Protestant churches have a problem, and Billy Graham’s grandson is on a mission to “persuade...
This post is part of a series. In Part 3, we began discussing the passages and principles by which we can escape the torment of Catholic and Arminian (or any other sort) legalism. Let’s continue: 5. You can stop working for God I am convinced that...
This post is part of a series. For those tormented by their failed efforts at resisting sin, or feeling not good enough to deserve salvation, or feeling unable to keep their salvation, let me tell you the good news that the misinformed religionists have not told...
For many, the life of faith is a life of burdensome works to earn or keep salvation. That is totally backwards. Listen and understand why. Outline below. To download Stop Working for God, please subscribe to our podcast feed. http://www.wholereason.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/stop_working_for_god.mp3Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: RSS
This series is made up of the following articles: Scrupulosity 1, How Catholicism and Arminianism Obscure the Gospel and Create Neuroses Scrupulosity 2, How Sola Fide Solves the Problem Created by Works-based Theology Scrupulosity 3 – How to escape the bondage of Catholic and Arminian...
