Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, Volume 15
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Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, Volume 15.
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“Thus, God awaits one’s choice—for the unregenerate to believe and for the believer to obey. Thus, to extinguish the wrath of God requires obedience for the regenerate; and for the unregenerate, faith.” (Volume 15, Number 29, Page 53)
“God’s wrath in the OT falls indiscriminately upon individuals, both unregenerate and regenerate, who continually sin” (Volume 15, Number 29, Page 47)
“Changing from premillennial to amillennial caused Augustine to reinterpret Matt 24:13. Completely ignoring the three near references to ‘the end’ which undeniably refer to the end of the age (vv. 3, 6, 14), he chose to interpret ‘the end’ as the end of one’s physical life and ‘saved’ as eternal salvation. With this understanding only those baptized, regenerate believers who remained faithful to Christ until the end of their lives were elect.” (Volume 15, Number 28, Page 36)
“Many Evangelicals today would simply use the ‘professing but not possessing’ retreat. They profess to be believers, but, indeed, their faith is not saving faith because it is only intellectual assent. Thus these professing believers are not genuine believers at all. They profess faith but do not possess faith. But this is not what Augustine did. Nor Calvin.” (Volume 15, Number 29, Page 27)
“The second view is that of the Reformers. Flying the banner of sola fide, they trumpeted a certainty to salvation that made saving faith and assurance virtual synonyms. The post-Reformation Calvinists and Puritans held to a third view which saw assurance as a grace given subsequent to conversion and discerned by careful self-examination.” (Volume 15, Number 28, Page 39)
- Title: Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, Volume 15
- Author: Robert Wilkin
- Series: Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society
- Publisher: Grace Evangelical Society
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- Resource ID: LLS:gs_jotges_15
- Resource Type: Journal
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:40:07Z
Dr. Bob Wilkin received his ThM and PhD from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served as a campus evangelist with Campus Crusade for Christ, a hospital chaplain, a pastor, and a Bible college professor, and he is the founder and executive director of the parachurch organization Grace Evangelical Society (www.faithalone.org).
Dr. Wilkin has written seven books covering assurance of salvation, eternal rewards, key words in the Bible, final judgment, difficult New Testament texts, clarity in evangelism, and Calvinism. He is the editor of and a contributor to The Grace New Testament Commentary and he has written hundreds of magazine and journal articles. Bob regularly speaks across the country and occasionally speaks overseas.