Lordship salvation seems more like an offshoot of the Republican party these days.
Your last statement (you call yourself a Christian one) just shows how misguided
the lordship salvation community is.
I wouldn't necessarily say
that Lordship salvation is of the devil... that's a little too strong for my taste.
After attending a Church of Christ for a few years and then a church which has heavy leaning's towards
Lordship salvation, I have come to a similar conclusion, which I believe you have obviously come to Mr. Myers.
This would help settle the argument in
the lordship salvation vs. free grace debate in my mind, because it would show that belief in the Gospel account is accredited as obedience.
You are absolutely right on about the content and result of faith in Jesus, and you analysis of
Lordship salvation is correct as well.
Not exact matches
The mystery of creation and the history of
salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate
Lordship of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
who with the
lordship position can ever know that they have a personal relationship with christ and can stand on his promises of the certainty of
salvation and eternal life.
If a
Lordship Salvation proponent insists there must be good works in order to prove the reality of someone's
salvation, I would refer to this verse in which Jesus says the «work» is to believe.
I have already read Cray Love but gave it away (
Lordship Salvation — he confuses discipleship and
salvation) but maybe the other two will be better?
We are a people who love Jesus first, whose Bible is their ultimate rule of faith and practice, who believe spreading the good news of Jesus»
lordship and
salvation in word and deed is our most important contribution to the common good.
Explicit confession of the
Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for
salvation, at least under certain circumstances» very wide circumstances, it turns out» says Rob Bell in his Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.
This is typical «
Lordship -
salvation - Calvinistic - perseverance - of - the - saints» theology, of which I have never been a fan.