By Lee Hanks Advocate & Messenger—January 1937 WHENEVER WE ascertain the fact how one sinner is saved that solves the problem how every sinner is saved eternally. If you have learned how one sinner knows the Lord, you have discovered the great truth how every sinner knows the Lord.
Thoughts on Predestination
By Elder Walter CashReproduced from “Messenger of Peace,” April 1st, 1928 We wrote on this subject several years ago, but have had many requests within the last two years to write again, and have had it in mind during the last year to do so, but had been deferring it. The scripture teaching on this…
Commentary on John 3:16, Hebrews 2:9, Romans 9:15-25
By C.H. Cayce, April 21, 1908 Brother J. L. Harder, of McKenzie, Tenn., has requested our views of the above passages. We have not space or time now to write at great length on these, but will state our views briefly.
Regeneration – Addition or Change and the Extent Thereof
By Marty Hoskins Titus 3:5 “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Comments on Various Disputed Passages – 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
By Michael Gowens 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory…
Comments on Various Disputed Passages – Romans 10
By Michael Gowens The larger context of Ro 9-11 is concerned to answer the question, “Is God righteous in the way He has dealt with the Jews?” The entire passage is a “theodicy” or justification of God against the charge that He had not given Israel sufficient resources to believe (see Ro 9:6, the key…
Comments on Various Disputed Passages – Ephesians 2:8
By Michael Gowens Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”
Comments on various usages of the word “Save” in the Bible
Transcribed from a sermon preached on Romans chapter 1 by Elder David Pyles in 2005.
What does it mean to ‘work out your own salvation?’
By Josh Winslett Phillippians 2:12 “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”