WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: SALVATION

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

SALVATION

Salvation (the Gospel)

"Abide in Me," John 15:1-8: Saved or Unsaved, Not Christian or Better Christian

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 1 of 9, Word Study (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 2 of 9, Word Study (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 3 of 9, Word Study Concluded (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 4 of 9, the Lexica (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 5 of 9, Old Testament Background to the Vine Image of John 15 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 6 of 9: Exposition of John 15:1-3 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 7 of 9: Exposition of John 15:4-5 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 8 of 9: Exposition of John 15:6-11 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 9 of 9: Miscellaneous Notes & Conclusion (T)

Acts 2:38--Baptism Essential to Salvation? (T)

Acts 11:26: All Christians are Disciples (T)

Acts 22:16--Baptism Essential for Salvation? (T)

Analysis: Online Video Plan of Salvation - Is It the Gospel?

Postscript to Analysis of Skelly Gospel Video

Are All Believers Disciples? part 1 (T)

Are All Believers Disciples? part 2 (T)

Are All Believers Disciples? part 3 (T)

Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 1 of 3 (T)

Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 2 of 3 (T)

Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 3 of 3 (T)

Christians Not Impressed with Christianity

Church Autonomy, Pastoral Authority, Closed Communion, and the Gospel: The Means Becoming the End

The Covenant of Redemption Should Be a Problem

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 1 of 4 (T)

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 2 of 4 (T)

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 3 of 4 (T)

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 4 of 4 (T)

Enablers of a False Gospel and Bad Church

Everyone Justified by Faith Has the Unction and the Anointing

Free Grace and Lordship Salvation: Rival Hermeneutics for a Biblical Soteriology

Gospel-Centeredness and Moralism

The Gospel and Simplicity

The Gospel Doesn't Change What God Expects

The Gospel, Stupid (J)

Gospel Troubles

The History of the Doctrine of Justification (J)

How the Gospel Gets Changed (J)

Is It Gospel Centered to Ignore or Disparage Cultural Applications of Scripture?

Jesus Is Lord (J)

Judging People to Be Saved

A Leaking Gospel

Let's Think about Romans 6:23 in Its Context for a "Gospel Presentation"

Lordship Salvation for "Dummies"

Lutherans and Anglicans: True Gospel?

The Most Important Problem: Part 1 of 4 in The Most Important Message Gospel series of Gospel videos (T)

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider, pt. 2

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider, pt. 3

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider, pt. 4

A Post Among a Series of Posts by John MacArthur about Social Justice and the Gospel

Preaching the Gospel to New Evangelicals?

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel, pt. 2

Luke 18:18-30:  The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number One

Luke 18:18-30:  The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number Two

Luke 18:18-30:  The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number Three

Salvation Is Cultural Separation (J)

"Saviour Of All Men": What Does It Mean?

Separation with the Gospel as an Essential: Imagination of and about Jesus Dipping Below a Saving Quality

Show Time: Making the Gospel About Us (J)

So Do You Think He Was Saved? Saul, Wesley, Luther, Etc.

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners, pt. 2

Unbiblical Salvation Language, pt. 1

What Does It Mean to Believe in Jesus Christ? (J)

What Has Happened that the Gospel Has Been So Messed Up by Professing Christians?

What Has Happened that the Gospel Has Been So Messed Up by Professing Christians? pt. 2

Winning through Losing (J)

There Are Two Sides, You Have To Choose One, Not Straddle Both, And This Has To Do With Everything

Salvation:  Atonement

Atonement (Part One):  An Old Testament Term

Atonement (Part Two):  Less Excellent Than Christ

Atonement (Part Three):  Less Excellent Than Christ (continued)

"Blood. . . Part and Parcel of the Programming We Receive as Christians"

Limited Atonement or Unlimited Atonement? Calvin Was Right About the Extent Of the Atonement – everyone ought to agree with him on it (T)

Salvation:  Lordship and Repentance

Corrupting Gospel Repentance: the FBFI and Minci's Response (T)

Does 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 Describe Conversion or Some Post Conversion Sanctification Experience?

Does Saving Faith Involve Surrender to Christ as Lord? (T)

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel?  part one

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel?  part two

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel?  part three

The Evil Junction of False Gospel, Distorted Sanctification, Success, Church Growth, Second Blessing, Keswick, and Man-Centered Methods

The Evil of Anti-Lordship Teaching

Except Ye "Repent," More Sword Aberration

Explaining Repentance to an Ignorant Lost Person

The Historic Baptist Doctrine of Receiving Christ as both Savior and Lord and the So-Called 

Liberty and Lordship

Lordship Salvation, or the So-Called Free Grace Gospel (T)

Mutually Inclusive:  Lordship Salvation

One Particular Corruption of Repentance to Accommodate a Methodology, Success, and Numbers

Preaching Repentance

Questions on Repentance from a Prominent Preacher (T)

Repentance and the Baptist Church Constitution (T)

Repent of Original Sin? Yes! (T)

Repentance Debate Challenge (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 1 (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 2 (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 3 (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 4 (T)

Repentance Isn't This Nor Is It This Complicated -- Please

Sad Strawman: A Critique of David Cloud's "Repentance and Lordship Salvation Revisited"

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners, pt. 2

Steven Anderson Is a False Teacher Who Believes and Preaches a False Gospel

What Gospel Did Jesus Say to Preach as Part of the Great Commission?

Salvation:  Old Testament

How Were People Saved Before Jesus Died?

Salvation:  Saving Faith

Does Saving Faith Involve Surrender to Christ as Lord? (T)

Faith Is Not A Work

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 1 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 2 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 3 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 4 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 5 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 6 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 7 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 8 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 9 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 10 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 11 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 12 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 13 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 14 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 15 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 16 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 17 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 18 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 19 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 20 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 21 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 22 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 23 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 1--“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 24 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 3--“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 25 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 3--“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 26 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 4--“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 27 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 4--“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 28 (T)

They Say They Are Believers, But They Don't Get It