Temporal Punishment of Believers (vs. Sean Luke)

Last updated on: May 7, 2026 at 1:26 pm By Dave Armstrong

Sean Luke obtained Masters of Divinity and Masters of Systematic Theology degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He runs the YouTube channel, Anglican Aesthetics, and a Substack site with the same name. He is a member of GAFCON (Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans), which is a traditionalist or “orthodox” reform movement of “authentic Anglicans”. It opposes, for example, Anglicans “who have rejected the authority of God’s written Word and have put their trust in their own reason . . .... Read more

Transformation of Believers (NT): 134 Passages

Last updated on: May 5, 2026 at 4:01 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Transformation / New Life / Newness / Renewal Luke 5:37-38 (RSV) And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. [38] But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. (cf. Mt 9:17; Mk 2:21-22) Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no... Read more

Salvation as a Process in the NT: 35 passages

Last updated on: May 4, 2026 at 8:27 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Matthew 24:13 (RSV) But he who endures to the end will be saved. Luke 21:19 By your endurance you will gain your lives. John 8:51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death. Acts 6:7 . . . obedient to the faith. Acts 11:23 . . . he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose; Acts 15:11 But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord... Read more

Workers with God to Save Ourselves & Others: 21 Passages

Last updated on: May 5, 2026 at 1:10 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Psalm 51:13 (RSV) Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee. Matthew 12:41 The men of Nin’eveh will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. (cf. Lk 11:32) Romans 11:13-14 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry [14] in order to make my... Read more

Final Judgment: Works vs. Faith Alone: 12 Passages

Last updated on: May 2, 2026 at 2:16 pm By Dave Armstrong

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1 Samuel 28:18-19 (RSV) Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Am’alek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day. [19] Moreover the LORD will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me; the LORD will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.” 2 Kings 22:13 “Go,... Read more

Meritorious Works: 36 Biblical Proofs

Last updated on: May 2, 2026 at 1:37 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Genesis 18:19 (RSV) I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him. Genesis 22:16-18 “By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, [17] I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars... Read more

Jesus & the “Sheep” & “Goats” vs. “Faith Alone”

Last updated on: May 1, 2026 at 10:42 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Matthew 25:32-36, 40, 46 (RSV) Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, [33] and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. [34] Then the King will say to those at his right hand, `Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; [35] for I was hungry and you... Read more

63 Old Testament Passages Contrary to “Faith Alone”

Last updated on: May 1, 2026 at 10:38 pm By Dave Armstrong

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1 Samuel 26:23 The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; . . . 2 Samuel 22:21-25 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. [22] For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. [23] For all his ordinances were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside. [24] I was blameless before him, and I kept... Read more

63 More NT Passages Inconsistent with “Faith Alone”

Last updated on: May 1, 2026 at 6:22 pm By Dave Armstrong

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[see the ten best ones, and forty more “unanswerable” ones] Matthew 5:19-20 (RSV) Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. [20] For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 10:22 (cf. Mt... Read more

“Faith Alone”: 40 Additional Unanswerable NT Passages

Last updated on: May 1, 2026 at 3:55 pm By Dave Armstrong

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These are forty more in addition to the ten “best ones” in my article, “Ten Terrifying, Shocking, ‘Un-Protestant’ Bible Passages”. ***** St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Doctor of the Church, writing when he was still an Anglican in 1838 (Lectures on the Doctrine of Justification: rev. 1874; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 3rd edition, 1908) — he was received into the Catholic Church in October 1845 — , has several insightful things (as always) to say about this general... Read more

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