Evanescent grace is a temporary grace that is given to a person but then fades away. The term is used to explain situations where people seem to believe and trust in Christ truly but later stop truly believing. But is this biblical? Can someone have the grace of God...
Free grace theology is a bad aberration of the teaching that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. It affirms that we are saved by faith alone in Christ alone. However, it teaches that there is no need to demonstrate a change in...
Federal Vision Theology, also known as the New Perspective on Paul and Auburn Avenue Theology, is a movement within some Reformed churches that stresses the objectivity of the covenant of grace where God promises eternal salvation to people based upon the sacrifice of...
Classical theism is the term applied to an old concept of God which states that he is the ultimate cause of all things, that he is non-contingent, and that he is the transcendent being upon which all reality depends. He is the uncaused cause, the terminus, the...
The material principle of the Reformation dealt with the essential doctrine of the Christian faith of justification by faith alone through faith alone in Christ alone. The formal principle is that the Scriptures are the final authority of the Christian faith. They...
Equal ultimacy is the position that God is equally active in causing the salvation of the elect as He is involved in causing the damnation of the reprobate. This is mainly an issue in Reformed Theology (also known as Calvinism). The elect are those people who were...
Regeneration is that change in the person that occurs when God indwells him and makes him a new creature (John 3:3-8; 14:23; 2 Corinthians 5:17). The question is when does it occur, before or after faith. Within Christian theology, there has been a wide variety of...
The word Neonomianism means a new law or the law of grace. It teaches that the first law of God, the Mosaic Law, could not be followed properly by anyone (except Jesus). Therefore, in order for people to be saved from their sins, a new law, the law of grace was...
The two primary evangelical Christian approaches to systematically interpreting Scripture as a whole are dispensationalism and covenantalism. Therefore, it is important to understand them both and what makes them different. Dispensationalism Dispensationalism is an...
The protoevangelium [fn]the protoevanglion (ion, not ium, refers to the Gospel of James, a non-canonical book written after 150 A.D.)[/fn] is the term used to describe the first mention of the gospel in reference to Genesis 3:15 where God says, "And I will put enmity...