Category: Grace vs. Works
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Saved by Grace Unto Damnation?
It is no secret that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a unique definition for the word salvation. In the words of Mormon Apostle Bruce McConkie, salvation must be understood in light of these two definitions:”Unconditional or general salvation, that which comes by grace alone without obedience to gospel law, consists in the…
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Is Mormonism Moving Toward a Protestant View of Grace and Works? Seventy Calls Such a Notion a "Misconception."
By Bill McKeever In recent years some Christians have insisted that the Mormon Church has been slowly abandoning its heretical roots and coming closer to embracing a more biblical soteriology. While we would like nothing more than to see this actually happen, we have been reluctant to engage in similar optimism. A speech given by…
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After All We Can Do
Last week I wrote about “Trevor,” a man who took issue with a comment I left at a news web site. My comment set Ephesians 2:8-10 (“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves…”) against a Book of Mormon passage, (2 Nephi 25:23: “…for we know that it is…