The difference between real faith and false faith in regards to believing in Jesus is the difference between belief in who Jesus is, God in flesh (John 1:1,14) and that he bore our sins in his body and the cross (1 Peter 2:24) and an intellectual belief that he lived...
The TULIP of Calvinism is the acronym that represents the five primary points that represent Calvinism: Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, and Perseverance of the saints. Hence, they are called the five points of Calvinism....
Total Depravity, sometimes called "total inability," is one of the five points of Calvinism, and is the "T" in the acronym TULIP[fn]Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints[/fn]. Total Depravity states...
Limited atonement is the teaching within Calvinism which states that Jesus only bore the sins of the elect (those chosen for salvation by God) and that He did not bear the sins of every individual who has ever lived. This teaching is also called "particular...
Though there are variations on what Lordship salvation really is, it is basically the view that in order to become a true Christian a person must receive Jesus as both Savior and Lord and that he must also cease from sin or be willing to cease from sin in order to be...
Theosis is the belief, mostly found within the Eastern Orthodox Church, that Christians can experience a union with God and become like him so much that they participate in the divine nature. This concept is also known as deification. Theosis does not mean that they...
Prevenient grace is a kind of grace that God gives to a sinner who is not naturally able to believe in Him, and it then enables the person to believe in God of his own free will. The term actually means "grace that comes before." It was a phrase developed by Jacobus...
Perseverance of the saints is the teaching that the work of God the Holy Spirit will never cease in the Christian, that all who are truly regenerated will never stop believing and trusting in Christ, that they will never lose their salvation, and that they will...
Supersessionism is the teaching that New Covenant established by Jesus replaces the Old Testament Mosaic covenant. The word is derived from "supersede." So, basically, it asserts that the Christian church has replaced Israel. It is also sometimes called Replacement...
Dispensationalism is an approach to biblical interpretation that states that God uses different means of working with people (Israel and the Church) during different periods of history, usually seven chronologically successive periods. A Dispensation is, basically, a...