Timeline for Is the choice, or decision, to accept Salvation through Jesus Christ a Work?
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| Nov 10, 2017 at 17:55 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @Gina, yes, a little more clear. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 3:11 | comment | added | Gina | No, that is not what I meant. We all have free will to choose to obey His will and His commands. But, believing is not a work. It is the answer of a good heart to the command of the Father. Making the free will choice to obey our Father should never be confused with a system of works. That is all. But, many people try to make the response / action / answer to the call into a work of man. If we are obedient to the will of the Father then it is of faith, and not of meritorious works. Is that a little more clear? | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 17:48 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Gina, in thinking through your answer, is it your understanding of free will that I am mistaken in believing that the choice was mine to make in the first place, but that I was responding to a call from God that I may or may not have been aware of? This part of your opening paragraph has me scratching my head. Too many people are easily discarding the will of God and throwing out His commands, calling them instead works of man | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 14:34 | comment | added | Caleb | @Gina The general scope of this site is documenting the practiced and preached variations of Christianity—it is not scoped to some Christian ideal or ultimate truth. That's the way it's been almost from the beginning. See posts like this one on meta that explain this. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 14:15 | comment | added | Gina | I am always running up gainst the "traditions of man" on this site. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 14:00 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @Caleb I think I need to ask this question, unless we already have one: Are all Reformed views / traditions are Calvanist, or are there Reformed theologies/confessions/denominations that are not Calvinist? I don't think we have that specific question yet, but maybe I searched incorrectly. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 13:53 | comment | added | Gina | @Caleb, not all Reformed views / traditions are Calvanist. Or are they? | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 13:43 | comment | added | Caleb | @Gina The Reformation principle of sola scriptura is a great one to model your own theology on, but it is a poor way to scope your answer. Questions like this one that asked for how a specific theological framework addresses something must be representative of that tradition. Lots of traditions claim to be based on Scripture; your argument that any Scriptural view is ipso-facto Reformed is both fallacious logic and in this case leads you to misrepresent the views of the group requested in the question. | |
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| Nov 9, 2017 at 13:37 | comment | added | Gina | The main tenet of the Reformed believers is to adhere to the scriptures, to stay true to the scriptures. I am answering this question from a Reformed perspective as that is my only creed.. to adhere to the word of God. As the OP asked for other Reformed views, I believed my answer to be allowed. Any perspective or belief system that does not adhere to the scriptures, whether Calvanism, or any other "Reformed" church needs to be inspected. Not all of Calvanism's teaching is wrong. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 13:30 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @Bradimus It appears that the answer is addressing my misunderstanding more than the Calvinist or Reformed position. I need to read it again to get the flow right. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 13:01 | history | answered | Gina | CC BY-SA 3.0 |