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EVERYTHING YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT BELIEF IS WRONG.
Evangelicals often
criticize Roman
Catholics for adding to the gospel, but are they guilty of doing it themselves? The author is firmly
convinced that, in order to defend the
Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone, evangelicals have inadvertently added at least one unbiblical requirement for salvation to the gospel message. Furthermore, he argues that many of the statements evangelicals frequently make about faith and belief are simply wrong. After much thought on this issue, he has concluded, despite many claims by evangelicals to the contrary, that
- "trusting in Christ and Christ alone" is NOT a biblical requirement for salvation!
- faith (or belief) really is "mere" intellectual assent!
-one is born again simply by believing certain facts about Jesus Christ!
- and, perhaps most startling of all, belief in Christ is NOT a choice!
The author also discusses a number of other topics in this book:
- the apparent origin of the phrase "trust in Christ and Christ alone for salvation" - and why it's misleading
- why the famous "Niagara Falls" analogy (which supposedly illustrates the difference between genuine faith and "mere" intellectual assent) is logically flawed
- why the second chapter of James does NOT prove that faith is something other than "mere" intellectual assent
- why the biblical definition of faith exlcudes the possibility that belief is a choice
- why the "once saved, always saved" view of eternal security is dangerously misleading
- why it is a mistake to use the book of Galatians to "prove" that works have nothing to do with justification
- why the author, a lifelong conservative evangelical, finally became convinced that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone is WRONG!.
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