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4.19.22 Views on Salvation - Coggle Diagram
4.19.22 Views on Salvation
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EGW
First book she writes
Saved by the Merits of Jesus
We must keep the commandments
Some say love of the father does not appear until 1888
Counter
Widen your search to include all of her writings you see that it is there before 1888.
Must do an inductive study instead of having a thesis to prove.
Sin
She said never play with sin. the more you get into the more unable you are to see it and to leave it
The dynamics of sin are such that you shouldn't play with it.
Ellen White just emphasizes different things
Implications
We are reactionary
Law oriented
Joseph Bates on his view of the covenants.
Keep the law
Then receive the gospel
James and Ellen White
Receive the gospel
Keep commandments
Two covenants
Old
I am able to keep it
People at Sinai
New covenant
Relisation that we need divine help
We need forgiveness, transformation and help.
no one can say I have arrived because we will never know
Expereiencial
Butler
Saved by grace
sanctified by your one keeping of the law.
covenants
New
Old
These are in two dispensations of time they were in.
LGT
MLA
Prevelant 1950's - 1960's
Seemed very legalistic, all depends on me.
Ford and happensstall
countered with wonderful exchange
Forensic justification, legal justification
Focus on what God is doing
Calvinists and Lutherans
EGW "I can't yield myself to him but I can ask him to."
Universal Legal Justification
People
Jack Sequara
1888 Message study commitee
Effective substitutionary atonement theory
view of God judging all means that he would be arbitrary
Moral influence
Cosmic view
Relationship
Monogistic view of salvation
God does it all and what you do does not matter
Leads to a rejection of the investigative judgement
Robert Brinsmead was into LGT
Brinsmead
Then he became an agnostic
Relational Salvation is reaction agains Forensic by Ford
Jesus All
Salvation through relationship with Jesus
Morris Venden
Moral Influence Theory reaction against the other three
Denies penal substiutionary
No need for Jesus to die, just to make us love Jesus and God
Emphasis on the unselfish love of God
Result is us responding to God in love.
Many people who believe this are reactionary against
Some say Peter Abolard said this but its not true
West Coast
Graham Maxwell
Why would you kill yourself because you love someone?
Correct view ish
Jesus came and had multiple purposes in coming