Tag: Calvin
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Salvation is not the same as having Assurance
One common refrain I hear often is “are you sure you’re going to heaven?” But how can I even ask this question if I question whether or not that answer is yes for myself. Evangelicalism has not reflected deeply on its theology of assurance and of faith and how that theology has related to the…
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God Became Man so that We Might Be Made God
The Son of God was made man so that we might be made God Athanasius, On the Incarnation §54 When I first heard this astounding quote I was repulsed and revolted by the idea that man might become God. Christianity is, after all, not polytheistic. We are at our core monotheistic and the very idea…
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Part 2a The Divinity of Christ
Part 2a And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father before all worlds, [God of God,] Light of Light, True God of true God, Begotten, not made, Consubstantial with the Father, By whom all things were made; –Nicene Creed Who is Jesus? Was here merely a great moral…
Defined Faith 