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salvation

Can you be saved if you don’t believe God raised Jesus from the dead?

October 28, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: resurrection, salvation

Why would God let rapists and murderers into heaven?

October 14, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: grace, heaven, repentance, salvation

According to Christianity, serial killers can be saved. Is that a reason to think that Christianity is false?

November 26, 2019 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, forgiveness, salvation, serial killers, soteriology, theology

The Top Three Worst Reasons to Reject Universalism

November 15, 2019 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: eschatology, salvation, soteriology, universalism

Do All Children Go to Heaven? On the age of accountability

October 18, 2019 by Randal

This article is based on chapter 30 of my book What’s So Confusing About Grace? Parenthood opens you to new questions you never thought to ask before. For me, it initiated a new stage in my wrestling with salvation and the Gospel: what did it mean for my daughter to be saved? Did I agree that […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: age of accountability, salvation, soteriology, theology, What's So Confusing About Grace?

Would you rather be a Muslim who acts like Jesus or a Christian who doesn’t?

January 25, 2019 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, discipleship, doctrine, holiness, Islam, salvation

How I wore evangelistic T-shirts in high school to try and save … myself

January 11, 2019 by Randal

In my book What’s So Confusing About Grace? I journey through several different ways of thinking about salvation that I held growing up (and into adulthood). Along the way, I summarize several “laws” that I came to believe were essential to salvation, including that which I call “Law 5”: Law 5: If you are ashamed of Jesus, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evangelism, fundamentalism, salvation, What's So Confusing About Grace?

Does God privilege weak outsiders over powerful insiders? A response to Tim Keller

January 1, 2019 by Randal

Let’s ring in the new year with a New Year’s Day tweet from Tim Keller: A salvation earned by good works and moral effort would favor the more able, competent, accomplished and privileged. But salvation by sheer grace favors the failed, the outsiders, the weak, because it goes only to those who know salvation must […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: salvation, scandal of particularity, Tim Keller

If God wants to save us, why isn’t salvation simple?

May 12, 2018 by Randal

I know what you’re thinking: salvation is simple! After all, just look at John 3:16: God loved the world so much he sent his Son so that whoever believes in him will be saved. Surely that is simple, right? It might seem so, but the closer you look, the more that initial veneer of simplicity […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: salvation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?

Does Calvinism offer a basis for the assurance of salvation?

March 17, 2018 by Randal

Calvinism affirms a doctrine known as the perseverance of the saints according to which the truly regenerated disciple will persist in faith. In the words of the seventeenth-century Puritan William Secker, “Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether.” Calvinists insist that perseverance of the saints is a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: arminianism, assurance, Calvinism, epistemology, perseverance, salvation

What Happens to Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?

January 16, 2018 by Randal

I was recently interviewed by Cameron Bertuzzi of “Capturing Christianity” on the topic of salvation for those who have never heard the Gospel. You can listen to it here:

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Cameron Bertuzzi, exclusivism, inclusivism, interview, salvation, soteriology

Do all adherents to non-Christian religions go to hell?

November 22, 2017 by Randal

Let’s take a look at one of my recent, highly rigorous Twitter surveys: A question for Christians: Do all adherents to non-Christian religions go to hell? — Tentative Apologist (@RandalRauser) November 17, 2017 When I see results like this — and by “this” I’m referring specifically to that 53% — I wonder whether folks have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: exclusivism, inclusivism, salvation, soteriology

In Search of Salvation

November 14, 2017 by Randal

My new video gives a twenty minute introduction to the themes of my book What’s So Confusing About Grace? Check it out!

Filed Under: Home Posts, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: discipleship, gospel, In Search of Salvation, salvation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?

If God wants us to be saved, why is grace so confusing?

November 4, 2017 by Randal

It’s a daunting question. If God wants all human beings to be saved — and surely he does — then why aren’t the requirements of that salvation clearer? This is a central theme woven through my book What’s So Confusing About Grace?,  a theological memoir spanning a forty-year journey trying to understand the nature of God’s […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: grace, salvation, soteriology, theology, What's So Confusing About Grace?

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