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Two formulas contrasted: Catholic (faith + works = salvation) vs. Christian/James (faith = salvation + works as result)

The Debate Over James 2： Catholic or Protestant View

Infant salvation and adult salvation both ultimately flow from Jesus Christ, but differ experientially — one comes through knowing faith, the other through grace applied to the innocence of accountability.

Are Some Sins Worse Than Others？ Please don't get this wrong!

Mike does not hold to full Calvinist total depravity; the key disagreement is whether fallen humans can respond to the Holy Spirit's call

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 1)

No one overcomes unbelief "on their own" — God uses general revelation, conscience, and the Holy Spirit to call everyone

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 1)

Jesus did not teach salvation by works — Mark 10 (rich man) demonstrates the impossibility of works-righteousness and points to Christ's atoning sacrifice

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 1)

The elect are not a closed group from which some are necessarily excluded; election involves foreknowledge and preserves both God's and humanity's free choice

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 1)

The simplest test for distinguishing true from false teachers is the identity of Jesus (who is he?) and the means of salvation (how am I saved?) — 1 John and Ephesians 2:8-9

The False Teachings and Lies of Joo-Cheol Kim (Pastor of the Church of God)

Sye acknowledges Winger's critique as kind though erroneous; notes soteriology will be a central difference underlying their apologetic disagreement

Does Presup Apologetics Have a Biblical Foundation？ Mike Winger vs Sye Ten Bruggencate

Winger argues his objections to presuppositionalism are biblical, not soteriological, and would hold even if he were Calvinist

Does Presup Apologetics Have a Biblical Foundation？ Mike Winger vs Sye Ten Bruggencate

Soteriology enters: Sye argues if a person contributes anything to their salvation (including the choice of faith), salvation becomes a work; leads into the faith-as-a-gift debate

Does Presup Apologetics Have a Biblical Foundation？ Mike Winger vs Sye Ten Bruggencate

Winger holds that faith is not a work (the Bible says so), but is a choice to trust; Sye argues the Bible's statement that faith is not a work does not resolve the logical problem if faith is something you do

Does Presup Apologetics Have a Biblical Foundation？ Mike Winger vs Sye Ten Bruggencate

Q&A: Core doctrines vs. peripheral doctrines — spiderweb illustration; Mormonism example

Ben Shapiro, a Catholic Bishop and the Gospel.

Winger rejects irresistible grace: God's Spirit convicts all people universally but some freely reject him; Winger believes he personally would likely not believe without the Spirit's work

Mike Winger LIVE Q&A on Theology, Apologetics and the Christian Life

Introduction: inside-baseball soteriology debate; response to James White on limited atonement

Responding to Calvinist Arguments for Limited Atonement

The real Watchtower error: denying the sufficiency of Christ's atonement, not just the shape of the cross

Did Jesus Die on a Cross or a Stake？ Here's the Evidence.

Q&A: Does Matthew 11:21-22 (Tyre and Sidon) challenge Calvinism?

Stop Saying All Roads Lead to God!

Messianic believers who add Torah observance as a requirement for salvation are condemned by Galatians 1

How You Can Know and Show Christianity Is True (Understanding Apologetic Methodology)

Assurance of salvation can fluctuate but does not determine a Christian's actual standing before God

How You Can Know and Show Christianity Is True (Understanding Apologetic Methodology)

Calvinism, Arminianism, Molinism — Mike identifies as a Molinist

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 4)

Matthew 6:14-15 — is forgiving others necessary for salvation, or evidence of it?

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 4)

Confessing Christ is the ultimate expression of life and death in the power of the tongue

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 5)

Symmetry of creation and salvation: both occur through the Son

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 5)

Calvinism: regeneration precedes faith — the Holy Spirit regenerates the sinner first, making belief inevitable

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 6)

Mike's anti-Calvinist argument: faith is not a work regardless of its source; the Calvinist objection tries to smuggle faith into the "works" category

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 6)

Non-Calvinist view: God initiates faith through the proclaimed word, but the individual makes the decision to believe

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 6)

Lordship salvation: repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin, not moral prerequisites for merit

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 11)

Romans teaches that physical descent from Abraham does not save -- only the faith of Abraham counts

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 11)

Catholic Church has the right Jesus but a distorted gospel — Mike recommends his Catholicism series

Subscriber Hangout and Q&A - LIVE!

Does God choose who is saved? — Both election and free will are simultaneously true

Subscriber Hangout and Q&A - LIVE!

Dual covenant theology is unbiblical; Jewish people need Jesus — Romans 10:1-4 and John 5:46

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 12)

Q15: Does God love us unconditionally? Love requires some conditionality; relational nature of love

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 16)

Forgiveness vs. salvation: forgiveness is one component; salvation is the full package including adoption, the Spirit, and eternal life

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 20)

Question: Do people go to hell for sin or for not believing in Jesus?

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 23)

John 3:16-18 — condemnation precedes unbelief; unbelief leaves you in existing condemnation

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 23)

Marg, I simply will have to disagree. I don’t think it is acceptable to translate all the uses of diakonos as ‘minister’. Like i said earlier the context needs to decide the translation. In most of t...

“Don’t confuse soteriology with ministry. This is the mistake that egals make with Gal 3:28 and as it” Mark, I’m going to ask you to take a better look at the context of Gal. 3:28. The Galatians w...

Kay, We are never going to agree on Gal 3. The epistle is an extroadinary outline of the gospel and soteriology. Paul is addressing the galatian heresy so YES he was talking about how you are saved a...

Mark, “To argue for ecclesiology as the primary function just doesn’t fit the context, nor the content of the letter, nor the overall purpose of the letter.” I didn’t say it was the primary functi...

“Yes, Slick is a Calvinist. But I should also point out that not all (certainly most however) Calvinists are opposed to women in ministry.” This fair and kind comment is a nice segue way into a brief...