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Posts Tagged "Works Salvation"

Doug Wilson Says ‘I Have Decided’ to ‘Discontinue Identifying Myself’ with ‘Federal Vision,’ but I Still ‘Affirm Everything I Signed Off on in the Federal Vision Statement’

| Opinion by Nathan Wells
“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

Doug Wilson Says We ‘Were Declared to be Heretics’

| Opinion by Nathan Wells
“On June 22, 2002...the four of us were declared to be heretics.” – Doug Wilson

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

| Opinion by Nathan Wells
“...men fall away because their salvation was contingent upon continued faithfulness in the gospel...” – Doug Wilson

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

| Opinion by Nathan Wells
“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

Doug Wilson Says If You Make ‘Venomous’ Comments About Me and ‘Don’t Repent’ You’re Going to Hell

| Opinion by Nathan Wells
“You need to repent of all the venomous comments you made over the last week, directed at us, and there were quite a few of them. If you don’t repent, you are lost forever. Revilers will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Doug Wilson

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