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“Free Grace” Theology: 5 Ways It Diminishes the Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Must the gospel message include a call for people to repent of their sins? “No,” say Free Grace advocates. Is evidence of a changed life an important indication of whether a person is truly born again? “No, again,” these advocates say. But in this book, Wayne Grudem shows how the Bible answers “Yes” to both of these questions, arguing that the Free Grace movement contradicts both historic...

faith, seems quite inconsistent with repeated summaries of the gospel message as given in various parts of the New Testament. In conclusion, there are two understandings of repentance among Free Grace supporters. 1) Many understand repentance to mean simply a “change of mind.” The weakness of this position is that, for the New Testament, this meaning finds no support in any authoritative Greek lexicon or in any modern English translation, none of which translate the Greek terms metanoeō and metanoia
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