Soteriology

1. Soteriology What Does It Mean to Be Saved?

2. “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”–2 Corinthians 5:21

3. What is salvation? What is the process of salvation? How do various Christian traditions view salvation differently? What is predestination/election? Is predestination unconditional? Is predestination conditional? Is predestination fair? Does God predestine people to Hell? Why did Christ die on the Cross? What did Christ’s death accomplish? For whom did Christ die? Can we say “no” to the Gospel? What does it mean to be born again? Does regeneration precede faith? What does it mean to have faith? What does it mean to repent? What does one have to do to be saved? How is the atonement appropriated? How is a person justified before God? How does one become a better Christian? Can a person lose his salvation? What about those who have never heard about Christ? Question Outline

4. Course Outline • Ordo Salutis • Conditional Election • Unconditional Election • Atonement: Historical Survey • Atonement: Substitution Theory • Calling and Regeneration • Conversion: Faith and Repentance • The Doctrine of Justification • The Doctrine of Sanctification • The Doctrine of Perseverance

5. Ordo Salutis “Order of Salvation”

6. Questions What is salvation? What is the process of salvation?

7. Perseverance Justification Salvation Regeneration Expiation Propitiation Sanctification Predestination New Birth Repentance Atonement Foreloved Glorification Adoption Faith Forgiveness Conversion Imputation Reconciliation

8. What is Salvation? Salvation is an event and a process in which people are brought into a right relationship with God.

9. What is Salvation? Salvation Sanctification Glorification Past Eph. 2:8 Present 1 Cor. 1:18 Future Rom. 5:9

10. What is Salvation? Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Salvation Sanctification Glorification Past Eph. 2:8 Present 1 Cor. 1:18 Future Rom. 5:9

11. What is Salvation? 1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Salvation Sanctification Glorification Past Eph. 2:8 Present 1 Cor. 1:18 Future Rom. 5:9

12. What is Salvation? Romans 5:9 “Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.” Salvation Sanctification Glorification Past Eph. 2:8 Present 1 Cor. 1:18 Future Rom. 5:9

13. Ordo Salutis How do we take the doctrine of salvation and all of its various aspects and understand the process?

14. Ordo Salutis Lat. “Order of Salvation.” The logical order in which the process of salvation takes place.

15. What is Salvation? Salvation Sanctification Glorification Past Eph. 2:8 Present 2 Cor. 2:15 Future Rom. 5:9

16. God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit Foreknowledge Predestination/Election Reconciliation Adoption Atonement Propitiation Redemption Justification Calling Regeneration Security God/Man Faith Repentance Sanctification Perseverance

17. Foreknowledge Predestination/Election Salvation Before Time Calling Regeneration Justification Faith Repentance Perseverance Salvation in Time

18. Objective Election Atonement Calling Regeneration Justification Monogism What God Does Alone Subjective Faith Repentance Sanctification Perseverance What God Does Through Us Synergism

19. Ordo Salutis Rom. 8:29–30 “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.”

20. Ordo Salutis How do the various Christian traditions view salvation differently?

21. Different Traditions • Pelagian/Liberal • Roman Catholicism • Arminianism • Reformed

22. Process Justification (man) Good Works (man) Glorification (God) Bad works Confession and good works Saved Unsaved Bad Works (man) Eternal Damnation Pelagian/Liberal Ordo Salutis Innocence

23. Glorification (God) Process Justification (God-man) Confirmation/ Faith (Man) Atonement (God) Purgatory Purging of venial sins Baptism/ Regeneration (Man) Confession and Penance Confession and Penance Saved Mortal sin Unsaved Mortal Sin Eternal Damnation Fall From Grace (Man) Roman Catholic Ordo Salutis Conditional Election/ Predestination (God-man)

24. Glorification (God) Conditional Justification (God-man) Regeneration (God) Atonement (God) Faith (Man) Loss of Faith Calling (Man) Prevenient Grace Saved Unsaved Rejection (Man) Rejection Granted/ Free Will Allowed Eternal Damnation Arminian Ordo Salutis Conditional Election/ Predestination (God-man)

25. Atonement (God) Atonement (God) Calling (God) Regeneration (God) Conversion (God-man) Justification (God) Sanctification (God-man) Glorification (God) Elect (God) Faith Repentance Believers (God) Reprobate (man) Non-believers (man) Conditional Damnation (Man) Eternal Damnation General Call (Man) Rejection (Man) Reformed/Calvinistic Ordo Salutis Election (God)

26. You are here Atonement (God) Calling (God) Regeneration (God) Conversion (God-man) Justification (God) Sanctification (God-man) Glorification (God) Faith Repentance Past Present Future Ordo Salutis Election (God)

27. Discussion Groups

28. Unconditional Election Session 2

29. Question What is predestination/election?

30. Atonement (God) Calling (God) Regeneration (God) Conversion (God-man) Justification (God) Sanctification (God-man) Glorification (God) Faith Repentance Past Present Future Election Election (God)

31. Election “This issue is not whether or not the Bible teaches election and predestination, for that is clear to all. But the issue is, ‘What does it mean to be elect or predestined?’ How one answers this question will place him in one theological tradition or another.”

32. Election Romans 8:28–30 “And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose, because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.”

33. Election Words of Election: • Election • Predestination • Choose • Foreknow • Appoint

34. Election

35. Election Two Positions: • Unconditional Election • Conditional Election

36. Election

37. Question Is predestination unconditional?

38. Election Unconditional Election: The belief that God predestined people for salvation before the beginning of time. God’s election is not conditioned by anything in man, good or evil, foreseen or present, but upon God’s sovereign choice. Proponents: Augustine, Reformed Protestants

39. Unconditional Election Charles Spurgeon (1850) Thomas Aquinas (1250) John Whitfield (1750) John Calvin (1600) Council of Orange (529) Martin Luther (1500) Augustine (400) 100 A.D. 400 A.D. 1600 A.D. 2000 A.D.

40. Presbyterians Lutherans Reformed Calvinists Baptists Reformed Tradition Free-will Baptists Church of Christ Pentecostals Methodists Wesleyans Nazarenes Arminian Tradition Unconditional Election

41. Unconditional Election “The human will does not attain grace through freedom, but freedom through grace.” –Augustine of Hippo

42. T U L I P Total Depravity: Humanity has fallen into a state of radical corruption that has affected every aspect of who we are. The imago Dei has been marred, but not destroyed. Unconditional Election: The belief that God predestined people for salvation before the beginning of time. This election was not based or conditioned upon anything in man, good or evil, foreseen or present, but upon God’s sovereign choice. Tulip

43. Tulip

44. Unconditional Election Defense of unconditional election:

45. Unconditional Election • Election must be unconditional and individual, because man is totally depraved. If election were conditioned upon the choice of man, no one would ever be elect, since man does not have the inclination or ability to choose God on his own. The only thing that man contributes to his salvation is sin. Therefore, God must unconditionally predestine people to salvation.

46. Unconditional Election Rom. 3:10–18 “Just as it is written: ‘There is no one righteous, not even one, there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one. Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood, ruin and misery are in their paths, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.’”

47. Unconditional Election Jer. 13:23 “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good who are accustomed to doing evil.”

48. Unconditional Election Titus. 3:3 “For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.”

49. Unconditional Election Jn. 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.” Jn. 6:65 “And He was saying, ‘For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.’”

50. Unconditional Election Jn. 6:37 “Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.”