Osage Bluestem
Puritan Board Junior
How do you know if you're being fed FV theology at your church? What are the signs to look at? I am confused by this FV subject.
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Moreover, to affirm the Standards, and then redefine the terms used in the Standards, is not to affirm the Standards. For example, to affirm the decretal view of election, and then to say that the Bible teaches that the elect may fall from their election, is to set the Bible over against the Standards.
Should a sermon which set forth that view justification has present and future components as well as being described as a process cause concern? Is it a FV view?
Rather, justification means that sinners “are declared in the present, to be what they will be seen to be in the future, namely the true people of God.”
Look for booster seats or high chairs at the communion table. It's a dead giveaway.How do you know if you're being fed FV theology at your church? What are the signs to look at?
Should a sermon which set forth that view justification has present and future components as well as being described as a process cause concern? Is it a FV view?
9. who teach that there is a separate and final justification grounded partly upon righteousness or sanctity inherent in the Christian (HC 52; BC 37).
"We never deny grace alone as the efficient cause of all good and all salvation. We deny faith alone for anything beyond initial justification because it places faith in isolation without works, contrary to much Scripture."
"Since the initiative belongs to God in the order of grace, no one can merit the initial grace of forgiveness and justification, at the beginning of conversion."
For Rome there is ... "initial grace" in baptism and then subsequent grace following baptism. There is no complete justification in this life after baptism. There is only sanctification. In Roman theology, final justification is God's recognition of one's Spirit-wrought sanctity (and one's cooperation with that sanctity. In other words, a distinction between "initial" and "final" justification is inherent to Roman soteriology.
The easiest way to spot FV theology is to go up to the person and ask, "Are you Federal Vision?" If they say anything other than "No, I'm not," then they're Federal Vision.