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The featured studies
The studies in How God Saves, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
How God Saves holds 23 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 2 of the ten kinds.
- 20 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
- 3 studies ask why Christians read the same texts differently.
The studies by kind
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
20 studies, 8 as cards, 12 in the register
Justification by Faith: the Verdict of the CrossHow Romans says a guilty person is declared right with God, and what faith does.
The Two Adams — One Man, One Act, One Result — Romans 5:12–21Romans 5's mirrored ledger: one man, one act, one result, twice over, with grace super-abounding over the ruin.
ReconciliationGod was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, enemies made friends, the two made one new man, all things whether upon the earth or in the heavens.
The Just Shall Live by His Faith — Habakkuk 2:4Habakkuk 2:4 and its three New Testament quotations, one line of Hebrew that becomes Luther's Reformation tower text.
Predestination and ElectionThe texts first as data: the golden chain, Jacob and Esau, the whosoever texts, then the Reformed and Wesleyan readings at full strength, with MannaFest's flag planted honestly.
In Christ: the Positional-Truth Thread of EphesiansTen 'in Christ' clauses stacked in Ephesians' own order, blessed, chosen, redeemed, sealed, seated in the heavenlies, building to the mystery of the one new man.
The Romans Road — the Gospel's On-RampFour milestones in Romans' own argument: all have sinned, the wages and the free gift, God's love proved at the cross, and a door standing open.
No Condemnation, the Arc of Romans 8Romans 8 read as one span bolted at both ends by a negative, from 'no condemnation' to 'no separation,' climbing to the golden chain.
The register: 12 more studies of this kind
- Hagar and Sarah: the AllegoryPaul reads the story of Abraham's two sons as an allegory of two covenants: Sinai, which bears children unto bondage, and the Jerusalem above, which is free and is our mother.
- Jesus on SalvationThis page follows four scenes where Jesus defines salvation in His own words: Nicodemus at night, Zacchaeus in the tree, the three lost things of Luke 15, and the narrow door, then closes on what He says salvation saves a person from and for.
- No Other GospelGalatians is the one Pauline church letter with no opening thanksgiving: Paul goes straight from greeting to alarm, because the churches he planted were trading the gospel of grace for a different gospel which is not another.
- Not My People becomes My People
- Put That on Mine Account: ImputationThe reckoning-word across the canon: Abraham believed, David blessed, the exchange of 2 Corinthians 5:21, and a sentence of business Greek in Philemon that says it all.
- The Divided SelfRomans 7 teaches that believers died to the law through the body of Christ, defends the law itself as holy while sin used it as a weapon, and then describes a war between willing and doing that ends in a cry and an answer.
- The Groaning CreationRomans 8:18-39 sets the sufferings of this present time beside the glory to come and refuses the comparison.
- The Law as TutorHaving proven that God justified Abraham by faith four centuries before Sinai, Paul answers the question his own argument raises: wherefore then the law?
- The New Perspective on PaulWhat Sanders, Dunn, and Wright actually claim, covenantal nomism, boundary markers, covenant membership, and the Reformation reading's answer, both at full strength.
- The Solas of the Reformation
- The Universal IndictmentRomans 1:18-3:20 is Paul's opening case: the whole human race, Jew and Gentile alike, stands guilty before God.
- The Unveiled FacePaul sets two ministries side by side: the covenant engraved on stone, whose glory faded from Moses' face, and the covenant written by the Spirit on hearts, whose glory remains.
Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.
3 studies
Eternal Security, and the Five Warnings of HebrewsJohn 10:28 and the five warnings of Hebrews set side by side, with the readings named and the cost of each stated plainly.
Faith and WorksJames 2:14-26 beside Romans 3:28-4:5: the same Abraham, two moments, harmonized.
Jacob Have I Loved: the Election ThreadGen 25:23 → Obadiah → Malachi 1 → Romans 9: one election thread across two millennia of text, with the hard question of 'hated' held honestly.
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