What does Robert Schuller, Rick Warren, and the Emergent church have in common? Synergism. Apprising Ministries reviews Pastor Bob DeWaay's analysis of the proliferation of synergism in evangelicalism:
"This theological perspective is fully at odds with the doctrines of the Reformation. The Reformers taught human inability and bondage to sin. They taught monergism (that salvation is fully an act of God) not synergism (that salvation is a cooperative effort between man and God). They taught that only a sovereign work of grace (grace alone) brought salvation...
Most people, based on their own perceptions, assume synergism to be true. They assume that though God made it possible for people to be saved, it was something in them, apart from any special work of grace, that caused them to “accept Christ” as they say... [But w]e must gain our theology from the Bible, not from our interpretations of our own experience. The Bible does not teach synergism, but that salvation is an act of God..."
Read the rest here at Apprising Ministries.
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