The instrumental cause of our salvation (4)
This article explores the relationship between faith as the instrumental cause of salvation and the good works that follow it, examining how Reformed theologians like Calvin and Hoeksema have explained the order of sequence between God-worked obedience and divine blessings. The author defends the Reformed understanding against Arminian error by clarifying Hoeksema's concept of 'in the way of' as a superior alternative to the term 'condition' for describing this relationship.
Previous article in this series: February 15, 2021, p. 236. Review All our salvation is stored up in Jesus Christ. And all of it -- justification, sanctification, blessings, fellowship, heaven -- comes to us through the lone instrument of faith. Faith is the pipeline that unites us to Christ, bringing to us all the blessings Christ has earned for us. Scripture, nonetheless, speaks of blessings that regularly come to us through that instrument of faith after certain Godworked obediences we...
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