Salvation Articles
Articles about different (true and false) views of God’s plan of salvation.
The Justice Of God In The Damnation Of Sinners
The Justice Of God In The Damnation Of Sinners
by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
“That every mouth may be stopped.” [Romans 3:19]
The main subject of the doctrinal part of this epistle, is the free grace of God in the salvation of men by Christ Jesus; especially as it appears in the doctrine of justification by faith alone. And the more clearly to evince this doctrine, and show the reason of it, the apostle, in the first place,… Continue reading
How Can The Dead Believe In Christ?
How Can The Dead Believe In Christ?
A Brief Look At Salvation And The Doctrine Of Total Depravity
Introduction
In this study, we are looking at how God saves sinners (not how sinners get themselves saved). Much of the material this study is based on comes directly from Scripture as well as from John Gill’s commentary on the Bible [1] which has got to be one of the most extensive and most scholarly of all English Bible commentaries in… Continue reading
A Just God
A Just God
by Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
When I was under conviction of sin, I had a deep and sharp sense of the justice of God. Sin, whatever it might be to other people, became to me an intolerable burden. It was not so much that I feared the wrath to come, but that I feared sin. I knew myself to be so horribly guilty that I remember feeling that if God did not punish me for sin, He… Continue reading
Do You Get It?
Do you get it?
Muslims don’t get it.
Hindus don’t get it.
Buddhists don’t get it.
Atheists certainly don’t get it.
Catholics don’t get it.
Many Protestants don’t get it.
Do YOU get it?
Get what?
The fact that God is SO HOLY that no amount of YOUR good deeds could ever remove even a single sin from your record. Spending time in a place of purging in the afterlife won’t fix your sin problem either.… Continue reading
Remember Lot’s Wife
Remember Lot’s Wife
A Solemn Warning From Jesus About Lost Souls
by J.C. Ryle (1816-1900)
There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than this. The Lord Jesus Christ says to us (in Luke 17:32) “Remember Lot’s wife.”
Lot’s wife was a professor of religion: her husband was a “righteous man” (II Peter 2:8). She left Sodom with him on the day when Sodom was destroyed; she looked back towards the city from behind her husband, against God’s… Continue reading