June 24, 2022 by Ken Yates in Blog - eternal life, Security, Works
Where do we place our faith for our eternal destiny

Recently, I visited the national park at Ft. Pulaski near Savannah, GA. I didn’t even know it existed until I drove by it. Much of the original fort is still […]

Solomon and Tolstoy on the Problem of Death and Eternity

King Solomon repeatedly pronounced that everything under the sun was vanity—it was meaningless. In an earlier blog, I said that Solomon’s argument could be put in the form of a […]

September 4, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Assurance, eternal life, gift, lutheran, Works
Is Salvation a Gift or a Bargain_ An Illustration from Steven Hein

I like Steven Hein’s analogy for two ways of presenting salvation. He compares it to the difference between receiving a diamond as a gift vs. purchasing it yourself for a […]

Eternal Life Is Christocentric

Free Grace theology should be thoroughly Christocentric, not least of all because eternal life itself is entirely Christocentric. What I mean is, eternal life is centered around Jesus. By contrast, […]

Is the Gospel Missing in John_

I was reading this article (“The Gospel Missing in John”) by a mid-Acts theologian about the saving message in John’s Gospel. Although I sympathize with emphasizing the “Jewishness” of the […]

Pentecost on Eternal Security

Here is a great quote from J. Dwight Pentecost, writing in 1965, on why the promise of eternal life implies eternal security: The promise of God is a basis for […]

The Christ Has the Words of Eternal Life

Some people say we must believe that Jesus is the Christ, without necessarily believing in Him for eternal life or any other kind of salvation. By contrast, we argue that […]

Are You a Fake Christian_

Do you know when you were born-again? Some Free Grace people say they were born-again before they believed in Jesus for eternal life. They believe those doctrines now, but they […]

Must we do “the work of the Christian life” to have eternal life_

Beware of Misleading Blogs A reader told me about a May 20, 2018 blog by Justin Steckbauer entitled “How to Have Eternal Life.” The reader said, “After reading it I […]

What was lost in Eden_

  Does the Bible emphasize the eternality of salvation? When OT and NT people thought of salvation, was “living forever” a new idea or a basic one? Is that something […]

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