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Did John Bunyan Question His Salvation?

You bet he did! Like most Christians throughout the history of the church, this famous believer was prone to discouragement. When he saw the sway that sin still held in his life he would begin to question whether or not God was really working in him–whether God would indeed keep him.
So what did he do?
Bunyan [...]

Adoption or Justification: Which is Greater?

I found this quote from CJ Mahaney’s blog, where after discussing the doctrine of adoption, he looks at Packer’s answer to the question, ‘Which is greater, adoption or justification?’. I thought it was an interesting question and definitely worth thinking through. Here is Packer’s answer:
That justification—by which we mean God’s forgiveness of the past together [...]

The Abandonment of Christian Atonement

Christians never cease to amaze me. In our contemporary ‘conversation’ we find people rejecting the idea of penal substitution, the imputation of righteousness, justification by grace alone, through faith alone, etc., etc., etc.
The thing that really bothers me about this is the arrogance with which such historic Christian doctrines are tossed aside in such a [...]

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