A False Hopeless "Gospel"

preacher4truth

preacher4truth

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Imagine being a chaplain dealing with deathbed patients who are dying without Christ. What would you do?

That depends upon your position:

Position 1: Salvation is Sola Fide; Salvation excludes works done by man.

Those who hold to this Biblical position include the Reformed and other Protestant groups.

For those of us holding to Sola Fide, faith alone, as precribed in Scripture, there is hope. If the person believes in the Gospel, the finished work of Christ alone for their salvation (Note Romans 4:1-6; Ephesians 2:1-10; 2 Timothy 1:9; Acts 15:11; Titus 3:5 &c) then the fact that they've believed shows they've been born of God; 1 John 5:1; John 3:36, and, have eternal life. This is the Biblical position.

Position 2: Apostasy from Sola fide; A works gospel.

Those who hold to this errant position include Roman Catholics, other sects such as The coC, cult groups such as Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses, and some lone ranger types of persons who lead others astray from the truth and hope of the Gospel.

Those who hold to the above apostate position cannot possibly offer any person on their deathbed the hope of eternal life. These faith in Christ alone shows these persons to have eternal life. Faith Alone or Sola Fide is rejected as false. The reason being is based upon the mistaken position on James 2:24 and other texts which are descriptive, not prescriptive. Via their position they reject that man has eternal life based upon faith, works must also be added to the equation. There is no hope this person can be saved via Sola Fide, which is contrary to Scripture which shows we are in fact saved via Faith Alone; Romans 4:1-6.

There is only one Gospel, and one Gospel of Hope. Faith in Christ alone shows forth that the person has eternal life, apart from any works that they have done. That is why it is Good News, it was accomplished by Christ apart from anything we have done.

Application:

Those chaplains (and others) who hold to Position 1? Keep on preaching, and defend the faith; Jude 3.

Those "chaplains" (and others) who hold to Position 2? You've denied the faith. Kindly step away from the ministry and let those whom God has called, who prove it by remaining faithful to the Gospel, do the work. All of you opposing Sola Fide have been defrocked by God Himself. You've apostatized from the faith.
 
preacher4truth said:
Imagine being a chaplain dealing with deathbed patients who are dying without Christ. What would you do?

That depends upon your position:

Position 1: Salvation is Sola Fide; Salvation excludes works done by man.

Those who hold to this Biblical position include the Reformed and other Protestant groups.

For those of us holding to Sola Fide, faith alone, as precribed in Scripture, there is hope. If the person believes in the Gospel, the finished work of Christ alone for their salvation (Note Romans 4:1-6; Ephesians 2:1-10; 2 Timothy 1:9; Acts 15:11; Titus 3:5 &c) then the fact that they've believed shows they've been born of God; 1 John 5:1; John 3:36, and, have eternal life. This is the Biblical position.

Position 2: Apostasy from Sola fide; A works gospel.

Those who hold to this errant position include Roman Catholics, other sects such as The coC, cult groups such as Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses, and some lone ranger types of persons who lead others astray from the truth and hope of the Gospel.

Those who hold to the above apostate position cannot possibly offer any person on their deathbed the hope of eternal life. These faith in Christ alone shows these persons to have eternal life. Faith Alone or Sola Fide is rejected as false. The reason being is based upon the mistaken position on James 2:24 and other texts which are descriptive, not prescriptive. Via their position they reject that man has eternal life based upon faith, works must also be added to the equation. There is no hope this person can be saved via Sola Fide, which is contrary to Scripture which shows we are in fact saved via Faith Alone; Romans 4:1-6.

There is only one Gospel, and one Gospel of Hope. Faith in Christ alone shows forth that the person has eternal life, apart from any works that they have done. That is why it is Good News, it was accomplished by Christ apart from anything we have done.

Application:

Those chaplains (and others) who hold to Position 1? Keep on preaching, and defend the faith; Jude 3.

Those "chaplains" (and others) who hold to Position 2? You've denied the faith. Kindly step away from the ministry and let those whom God has called, who prove it by remaining faithful to the Gospel, do the work. All of you opposing Sola Fide have been defrocked by God Himself. You've apostatized from the faith.
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Faith + works for salvation is RCC, that is for sure. Sola Fide does away with that false narrative. I guess the thief on the right of Jesus did not hold to Sola fide, right?
 
nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.[Galatians 2:16]

Sola fide. ???????
 
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life."[John 5:24]

Sola fide. ??????
 
SovereignGrace said:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life."[John 5:24]

Sola fide. ??????
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Anyone who has denied Sola Fide is neither Arminian nor Calvinist. They are Roman Catholic and have denied the faith. Not sure why anyone teaching against Sola Fide is allowed in this forum.
 
From the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, chapter 11:

“We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort; as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification.”
 
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith (Gal. 3:10-14).

More proof that to deny Sola fide is to stand in a dangerous place. ?????
 
In whom was it possible for us, the lawless and ungodly, to be justified, except in the Son of God alone? O sweet exchange, O the incomprehensible work of God, O the unexpected blessings, that the sinfulness of many should be hidden in one righteous man, while the righteousness of one should justify many sinners - Epistle to Diognetus[24]
 
"By faith alone one is freely forgiven of all sins and the believer is no longer burdened by the Law for meriting good works. Our works, however, are demonstrative of our faith and will determine whether we are ultimately justified"
—Ambrosiaster
 
“And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”

Source: Clement, First Epistle to the Corinthians, 32.4.
 
For God is just, and therefore he could not justify the unjust. Therefore he required the intervention of a propitiator, so that by having faith in Him those who could not be justified by their own works might be justified.”

Source: Origen, Commentary on Romans, 2.112.
 
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