salvation

What was Paul’s meaning when he affirmed that woman could be saved through her child-bearing (1 Timothy 2:15)?

Paul encouraged Timothy to pray on behalf of all men. This brief verse contains a number of important points to note in the margin of your Bible.

This article addresses whether or not people have the right to speculate about who will be saved apart from the declarations of divine revelation.

Was Cornelius, the Roman centurion of Acts chapter 10, saved before and without baptism?

The Bible is filled with affirmations of our Creator’s generosity. Every good and perfect gift is from him (Jas. 1:17). Surely our gratitude must be lavishly expressed for his graciousness. 

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Scholarly sources may be helpful, but good Bible students recognize any human source can be biased or flawed. God’s Word is the ultimate standard of faith and practice.

Throughout God’s word, the responsibility of mankind to make a choice between serving God and Satan is clearly set forth.

This article explores the meaning of Hebrews 10:26 and whether deliberate sin after becoming a Christian can lead to someone becoming lost. Wayne Jackson considers the context of the letter’s original recipients who were contemplating leaving Christianity and God’s willingness to forgive all sin.

Those who teach that salvation is solely by faith, without further acts of obedience, have a difficult time reconciling Paul with himself. Study this matter with us.

Many have been deceived into believing that grace by definition excludes obedience. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Jesus once declared, “Salvation is from the Jews.” What did he mean?

When the plan of salvation is so easy to understand, why do some go to such great lengths to obscure it?

Calvinists deny that a child of God can ever apostatize so as to be finally lost. When biblical examples are introduced to the contrary, it is claimed that either such souls were never saved, or else their loss was merely temporal. Let us study this question seriously.

Does Hebrews 2:16 teach that there is no plan of salvation for the angels who fell from God’s favor?

Is the baptism in Mark 16:16 a baptism in water or is it of some other sort?

Does this passage teach that our salvation is strictly a matter of God’s arbitrary election before the world was made, irrespective of any choice that we might exercise in the matter?

Based upon a misunderstanding of Ephesians 2:8, some argue that “faith” is a gift from God, and that it is not, therefore, a condition of salvation. This theory is the offspring of Calvinism. This week’s question explores this issue.

“Once-saved, always-saved” is a convenient way of viewing God’s redemptive plan — but is it biblical? Hear what the apostle Paul has to say about “falling from grace.”

A remarkable passage in John demonstrates that a human response is required in God’s plan of salvation.