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The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, and Wesleyanism is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is no doubting the legacy of the Protestant Reformers and their successors. Luther, Calvin, and Wesley not only spawned specific denominational traditions, but their writings have been instrumental in forging a broadly embraced evangelical theology as well. In this volume, Ben Witherington wrestles with some of the big ideas of these major traditional theological systems (sin, God’s...

and come to the full knowledge of the truth,” a theme we also find in 1 Timothy 4:10 where we hear of “the living God who is the Savior of all people, especially of the faithful.” Notice that the limitation comes at the point of those who respond in faith, not at the point of God’s desire or will. It is in this context that we must evaluate what is said in Titus 3:5–6 about how this salvation happens “according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
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