The Plan of Salvation: Five Lectures (Biblia.com)

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All Christians believe that the power to save belongs to God alone, but did God plan to save individuals before the creation of the world? If so, why didn’t God—in his foreknowledge—choose to save everyone? The doctrine of salvation is perhaps the simplest and most basic Christian doctrine, and the act of God’s saving power remains central to all of Christian thought and practice. If that’s the...

II AUTOSOTERISM It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.—Rom. 9:16. There are fundamentally only two doctrines of salvation1: that salvation is from God, and that salvation is from ourselves. The former is the doctrine of common Christianity; the latter is the doctrine of universal heathenism. “The principle of heathenism,” remarks Dr. Herman Bavinck,2 “is, negatively, the denial of the true God, and of the gift of his grace; and, positively, the notion

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