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The Bible teaches that Christians are chosen from eternity by God, but that people must choose to embrace the gospel in order to be saved. The earlist Protestant explanation of how these teachings go together is Calvinism. Calvinism stresses the freedom and determining power of God. Full (5-point) Calvinists believe that all people are morally unable to accept God until regenerated by the Holy Spirit, that God chooses individuals for salvation unconditionally, that Christ's death paid the penalty for the sins of only those elect, and that the Spirit's work makes their salvation certain, both before and after they embrace the gospel. However, God uses human means to achieve His purposes, so that sinners are converted through the preaching of the gospel. See this article for an in-depth look at Calvinism. The theological system based on Calvinism is often called Reformed theology, which also places a heavy emphasis on biblical inerrancy and substitutionary atonement. (Reformed is also the name of a family of denominations, and can be used to designate specifically Presbyterian theology. I use it more broadly to identify the common doctrine of the Magisterial Reformers Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Knox, and the Puritans and Particular Baptists.)

Some theologians have departed from Calvinism for hyper-Calvinism (which they prefer to call "high Calvinism"). This view denies the need for evangelism, missions, and repentance, and instead emphasizes the need for introspection to learn whether a person is among the elect. Hyper-Calvinism also claims that God has no love or compassion for those who are not elect.

A more popular alternative to Calvinism is Arminianism, which stresses the free and self-determining will of man. Full Arminians believe that all people are morally able to accept God, that God chooses people for salvation based on His knowledge of who will one day believe, that Christ's death made atonement possible for everyone, and that people always retain the ability to reject God's salvation, both before and after they embrace the gospel. Most Baptists who are generally Arminian nevertheless believe in eternal security, the belief that it is impossible for a truly saved person to lose that salvation.

One way in which Calvinists and Arminians tend to differ is in their view of revival. Revival is marked by greater spiritual fervor among Christians, often accompanied by a greater-than-usual number of conversions among sinners. Calvinists see revival as a surprising, sovereign work of the Holy Spirit that believers can pray for but cannot manufacture. The Arminian approach, often called revivalism, seeks to bring about revival through human methods, and attributes the presence or absence of revival to humans' willingness to cooperate with what the Spirit wants to accomplish.

How is a person justified, declared righteous before God? The Catholic church teaches sacramentalism, in which saving grace for the forgiveness of sins comes through the proper exercise of sacraments such as baptism, the Mass (the Lord's supper), and confession. Many Protestants believe a form of this called baptismal regeneration, in which the blessings of salvation are conferred when a person is baptized. The primary evangelical view is justification by faith, in which a person who has faith in Christ alone for salvation has His sins forgiven as a result of Christ's work on the cross. Related is imputed righteousness: Christ's obedience is reckoned to or bestowed on the convert, given as an act of God's grace apart from works and received by faith alone. However, some recent scholars have developed a new perspective on justification in which a person's own good works play a significant part in determining his ultimate salvation.

Realms of Faith
Christian Authors Database: Glossar
Find out what Armenians believe:

http://www.propadeutic.com/faith/authors/g.html#gospel1

Christian Authors Database: Contemporary Fundamentalists

http://www.propadeutic.com/faith/authors/fundamental.html

THE TRUTH ABOUT SATANIC CULTS

http://www.goodfight.org/a_sataniccults.html

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