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Why The Church of Pontius Pilate Rejects Synergism
What is Synergism? Webster defines it this way:"Synergism – interaction of discrete agencies (as industrial firms) or agents (as drugs) such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the individual effects"Theologically, Synergism is a doctrine that defines the human will as cooperating with Divine grace in the work of regeneration.
Can we at the First Church of Pontius Pilate (FCPP) find scriptural warrant for the doctrine of Synergism? No. We agree with the Protestant reformation, where the Reformers emphatically stated that we are totally unable to come to Christ unless God Himself does a complete work of regeneration in us by grace alone (Sola Gratia).
So we ask, "What does the Scripture say?" (Gal.4: 30) And the Scriptures respond with: "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." (John 5:39, 40).
Case closed.
What is Synergism? Webster defines it this way:"Synergism – interaction of discrete agencies (as industrial firms) or agents (as drugs) such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the individual effects"Theologically, Synergism is a doctrine that defines the human will as cooperating with Divine grace in the work of regeneration.
Can we at the First Church of Pontius Pilate (FCPP) find scriptural warrant for the doctrine of Synergism? No. We agree with the Protestant reformation, where the Reformers emphatically stated that we are totally unable to come to Christ unless God Himself does a complete work of regeneration in us by grace alone (Sola Gratia).
So we ask, "What does the Scripture say?" (Gal.4: 30) And the Scriptures respond with: "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." (John 5:39, 40).
Case closed.
2 comments:
arethe ppl @ fcpp the sameas at the WBI studycenter
oh, nevermind. i just saw a disclaimer on the wbi page. sorry, dumb question
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