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Whether Doug Wilson’s Teaching Distorts the Gospel

Posts evaluating whether Wilson’s teachings distort, complicate, or add conditions to the gospel message.

“I have decided, after mulling over it for some years now, to discontinue identifying myself with what has come to be called the federal vision....This statement represents a change in what I will call what I believe. It does not represent any substantial shift or sea change in the content of what I believe....I would still want [sic] affirm everything I signed off on in the Federal Vision statement.” — Doug Wilson “...I consider the understanding of the objectivity of the covenant [Federal Vision] to be a theological breakthrough.” – Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson Declared to be heretic

Doug Wilson Says We ‘Were Declared to Be Heretics’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson admits he and three others 'were declared to be heretics' by a Reformed denomination. Read about the Federal Vision and why churches condemned it.

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“On June 22, 2002...the four of us were declared to be heretics.” – Doug Wilson
Salvation Contingent on Faithfulness

Doug Wilson Says ‘Men Fall Away Because Their Salvation Was Contingent upon Continued Faithfulness in the Gospel’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson says 'salvation was contingent upon continued faithfulness.' Does this align with Scripture or undermine salvation by grace alone through faith?

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“...men fall away because their salvation was contingent upon continued faithfulness in the gospel...” – Doug Wilson
Faith and Works

Doug Wilson Says ‘Promises are Apprehended by Faith’ and Also by ‘Works’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson blurs the line between faith and works, saying 'faithfulness (works)' receives God's promises. Is this the gospel or a works-based heresy?

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“I have argued that promises are apprehended by faith, not faithfulness or fidelity, but, of course, faith in the biblical sense is inseparable from faithfulness. Faith is invisible to the human eye, but faith’s constant companion—faithfulness—is not invisible. Nevertheless, it is faith that receives the promises, overthrows kingdoms, and stops the mouths of lions. If we adopt the shorthand of James, we could say that faithfulness (works) does these things also, but we would be using his shorthand.” — Doug Wilson

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