Grace Evangelical Society

I was recently encouraged by a Bible study I attended. The teacher was addressing the question of whether the Bible contradicts itself. He challenged the liberal idea that the Bible is full of errors. He used the example of the man possessed by a legion of demons recorded in Matt 8:28-34 and Mark 5:1-20. Matthew says Jesus met two demon-possessed men, while Mark says He met ...

Per anni ho pensato che i calvinisti credessero nella sicurezza eterna e gli arminiani no. Credevo che la dottrina della sicurezza eterna fosse il cuore del calvinismo. Di conseguenza, dopo essermi laureato al seminario, mi definivo calvinista anche se non credevo negli altri punti del calvinismo.

Mi sono reso conto, tuttavia, che la maggior parte dei calvinisti in...

I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died (Rom 7:9).

What does Paul mean by alive and died in Rom 7:9? In what sense was he “alive once without the law”? And in what sense did he die “when the commandment came”? What is this life and death he was talking about?

He is clearly not...

Много лет я считал, что кальвинисты верят в вечную безопасность, а арминианцы — нет. Я думал, что доктрина вечной безопасности была сердцем кальвинизма. В результате после выпуска из семинарии я стал называть себя кальвинистом, даже если и не верил в другие пункты кальвинизма.

Тем не менее я пришел к пониманию, что кальвинисты на самом деле не верят в вечную безопа...

Dr. Tony Badger, autor knjige Confronting Calvinism, kaže sljedeće o takozvanoj Ustrajnosti svetih (Perseverance of the Saints):

Ni jedan jedini odlomak Svetoga pisma… ne pokazuje da onaj tko vjeruje u Krista za vječni život… mora ispravno živjeti i ostati moralno i doktrinarno čist… sve do kraja svog zemaljskog života kako bi… dokazao da...