tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post1747197806628105744..comments2024-02-18T12:18:45.788-05:00Comments on Sun and Shield: Scripture that indicates that humans can choose salvationMartin LaBarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-752424575412502882013-10-19T21:21:53.859-04:002013-10-19T21:21:53.859-04:00Thanks, Gary.
As I indicated, this is a controver...Thanks, Gary.<br /><br />As I indicated, this is a controversial topic, and not one that I am going to settle. However, the scripture passages I quoted seem to indicate that humans do, indeed, have some choice in the matter of salvation, at least sometimes.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-80137006127696175852013-10-19T20:04:52.366-04:002013-10-19T20:04:52.366-04:00Is Salvation a transaction?
An evangelical Christ...Is Salvation a transaction?<br /><br />An evangelical Christian recently said to me, "When a sinner turns from sin to the Savior...A transaction is made and a soul is saved."<br /><br />This statement is the crux of the problem with Baptist/evangelical theology: God DOES NOT conduct transactions with sinners! <br /><br />God saves sinners, and he does so WITHOUT their assistance or even their cooperation. Salvation is not a transaction...it is a FREE gift. Gifts do not involve "transactions".<br /><br />It is interesting to note this point: In Baptist and evangelical theology the sinner has a free will BEFORE he is saved, but loses his free will, the ability to choose or to reject God, after the "transaction" of salvation with God has been completed.<br /><br />In Lutheran theology, the sinner lacks ANY free will in spiritual matters prior to salvation. The reason that the sinner lacks a free will to make spiritual decisions (such as "accepting Jesus into his heart") is because the sinner is spiritually dead. However, once God saves him, quickens (makes alive) his spiritually dead soul, he then has the ability to make spiritual free-will decisions: to follow Christ, or to turn back to his former life of sin and darkness.<br /><br />Which theology is most consistent with Scripture and the historic teachings of the Christian Church?<br /><br /> http://www.lutherwasnotbornagain.com/2013/10/must-sinner-do-something-to-be-saved.html<br /><br />Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519721717265344702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-6776367121346538482012-10-30T03:24:15.966-04:002012-10-30T03:24:15.966-04:00Thanks,Kerry i am.Thanks,Kerry i am.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-7095981938277890232012-10-29T21:29:56.828-04:002012-10-29T21:29:56.828-04:00Thanks for posting the good stuff for us. So glad ...Thanks for posting the good stuff for us. So glad you choose to do it over and over. -- kerryi am Grateful... Kerry i am.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07975776780612363623noreply@blogger.com