Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (08):
I have a Roman Catholic friend who is a former Pentecostal who once believed in faith alone, grace alone. Now he believes in faith and works and is trying to get me to believe the ...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (08):
What is required of a person to be eligible to go to heaven?
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (08):
Do only the elect receive faith in Christ? It is my understanding that Lutheranism's answer to that question is "no". We (I'm LCMS) teach that some who are not of the elect receive...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (08):
How can or what must a person do to hold onto salvation?
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (08):
Many Christian churches encourage unbelievers to make a decision for Christ and may even offer a portion of their Sunday morning service to do so. They explain that in order to be ...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
I am a born-again child of God, and I have a question about something I read on your website. You say that children of God (believers) can "fall from faith." I thought when I got s...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
I couldn't find a Q&A on the subject of predestination. What is the Wisconsin Synod's position? Prescience or Augustinian?
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
In a recent answer you gave someone about the Episcopal Church and it's 39 Articles, you said the Articles give confusing statements as to Justification. I read the Article on Just...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
What is supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism? I was reading in the Q&A section and there was a question regarding these two terms being debated in Christian history.
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
Could you give me some passages that support the fact that heaven is not attained by works.
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
Could you give me some passages that support the fact that heaven is not attained by works.
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
I am a WELS member and attend my WELS church regularly. Actually, I am the organist at our church. I would consider myself a faithful Christian. I have a question concerning fellow...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
My question is on the popular teaching of "decision theology," which is most notably practiced by Billy Graham. I believe that only God can create faith in our hearts by the power ...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
How could God send someone to hell who never had the chance to hear the gospel? Is it because he knew they wouldn't believe anyway? Does "God punishing the children for the sins of...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
Are Baptists and other protestants Christians? What about people that have never heard of Christ? Would they go to Heaven? Mark 1:15 seems to indicate that we are saved by repentan...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (09):
I have a question regarding the Lutheran teaching on justification. I believe that the Lutheran church teaches that when a person is justified by God that God imputes to that per...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (10):
So many people in this world today (and in previous and future days)will never have a chance to hear the Word of God. As hard as missionaries work, this is a sad fact. My question ...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (10):
Could you respond please to an attack I recently read on the doctrine of justification by faith alone by a Roman Catholic? This person was not a theologian but claimed to be a well...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (10):
What is the Lutheran Church's stance on predestination? Is that something that our church believes in? Does that mean that God has predestined everything that will happen to us; wh...
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Doctrine - Justification/Salvation (10):
We at WELS believe in the "falling away" doctrine not the "once saved always saved" doctrine. We say , then that "once saved always saved", encourages one to live in sin because if...
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