Christology · 5 min
Was Jesus created?
The question that shook the fourth century, and why the answer still matters.
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Theology Proper
Why does the Trinity matter?
One God in three persons, and why the Gospel depends on all three.
Soteriology
Did God choose who would be saved?
Election, foreknowledge, sovereignty, and genuine human responsibility.
Scripture to know
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Ancient errors
Arianism
The fourth-century teaching that the Son was created, and how the church answered it.
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Prolegomena
What is theology?
Every Christian is a theologian. The question is whether we are good ones.
Ancient errors
What was Montanism?
A second-century movement of new prophecy, and what it teaches about the sufficiency of Scripture.
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Doctrinal comparison
Can a Christian lose their salvation?
How four traditions understand perseverance, apostasy, grace, and assurance.
Compare the positions
Scripture to know
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son”
Doctrinal comparison
Calvinism, Arminianism, or neither?
Why a non-Calvinistic Baptist reading of election is not simply Arminianism.
Baptist and Catholic
How is a sinner made right with God?
Two answers to the question at the heart of the Reformation.
Compare the positions
Scripture to know
“earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints”