Note: Today is the last day of my presence on Facebook – Lord willing, for good (don’t ever want to have a personal presence thereon barring some major national emergency/cataclysm/etc.). I am posting all of these Antinomian Diary posts (with more to come this week) as a record of the kinds of errors, grievous errors,…
Category: Antinomianism
The Antinomian Diaries: Is It Really Legalism To Distinguish Between Positional Righteousness and Experimental/Manifest Righteousness
The Antinomian Error (Yet again): Please consider the following actual quote: Some legalists artificially divide righteousness into “positional righteousness” And “experiential righteousness…if righteousness is tied in some way to our experience (experiential righteousness), then God has not established his righteousness yet, has He, because not all the elect are experiencing His righteousness right now. If…
The Antinomian Diaries: Does Admitting That We Sin Contradict The Reality That The Christian Also Obeys God?
The Antinomian Error (Yet again): Please consider the following actual quote: “Conundrum: I admit I sin daily either in thought, deed or motive. Yet I claim to be obedient to God……and we wonder why our presentation of the gospel confuses the heck out of lost people and even believers???” The “I” above is the writer…
The Antinomian Diaries: Is God Pleased With The Christian And With The Christian’s Good Works?
The Antinomian Error (Again): Please consider the following actual quote: It was while listening to a preacher that God opened my eyes and revealed to me that He is pleased with His Son (not me)! My focus [on my works, obedience] had been completely wrong!” God “opened [her] eyes” to such error? I think not;…
The Antinomian Diaries: On The Christian’s Supposed “complete inability to be even minutely obedient to God”
The Antinomian Error: Someone recently wrote the following, in response to a post that was not authored by me: “So, based upon this article you’ve posted, apparently, you believe that the Christian lives a life of obedience to God…Do you live obediently to God’s law? Clearly you do not believe the gospel, nor do you…
Christ IS Lord: A Salvation In Deed (Indeed) and Not in Notion or Talk Only
Christ IS Lord -or- A Salvation In Deed (Indeed) and Not in Notion or Talk Only By Curt Wildy You can find quite a few preachers, evangelists, and teachers who define the Gospel very well. They can tell you who Christ is very well. They can tell you about His perfectly-obedient sojourn, even His utter…
Pastor Jesse Gistand on God-enabled Faithfulness, Commitment, Obedience, Self-Denial, and Focus
Note: The following is a relatively short excerpt from his May 14, 2016 study titled “Men’s Theology – Leadership Class – Part 5.” For the full audio, please click here or visit: http://www.grace-bible.com/sermons/sermon/2016-05-14/mens-theology-leadership-class-part-5-2016. I cannot stress enough how much I would encourage everyone to listen to it in its entirety. The study speaks volumes concerning…
Assurance of Salvation: Why Some Lack It and God’s Means For Obtaining It
Assurance of Salvation Why Some Lack It and God’s Means For Obtaining It Three Foundational Passages Annotated, With the Annotations To Be Proven Below Before reading the three annotated passages, and as you read the rest of this article, please keep in mind the following: God often define his own terms by using the following…
The True Nature Of Agapē Love: How Love & Obedience Are One And The Same
The True Nature Of Agapē Love How Love & Obedience Are One And The Same -or- How Agapē Love Literally Is God-Wrought Obedience To God’s Extant Law Introduction The following is one of the most important doctrines that I have researched/written about, concerning the Christian’s walk before God in light of their justified state. Why is it so…
Progressive Sanctification, Rule of Life, Moral Law, and Antinomianism… Revisited
What If We Used Words Objectively? Imagine if Christians, rather than fighting against terms needlessly, took those terms back, defining them clearly and objectively, and educating others on the right use of them. Progressive Sanctification (Literally, proceeding onward in, forward in, or increasing in, being set apart for a sacred purpose)1913 Webster Dictionary: Progressive: Moving…
Spiritual Wrestlings 