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0^ I wrote an article on this topic several years ago. See Jeremy Myers, “The Gospel Under Siege,” JOTGES (Autumn:2003):43-48. http://www.faithalone.org/journal/2003ii/myers.pdf Last Accessed July 10, 2014.

0^ Cf. a similar statement made by Edwin H. Palmer, The Five Points of Calvinism, Enl. ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), 27.

0^ David N. Steele, Curtis C. Thomas, and S. Lance Quinn, The Five Points of Calvinism: Defined, Defended and Documented, 2 ed. (Philadelphia: P&R, 1963, 2004), 5-8.

0^ John MacArthur in ibid., 139-140.

0^ John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 vols.), trans., Ford Lewis Battles (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1960), 5.

0^ N. T. Wright, Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues (New York: HarperOne, 2014), 42-43.

0^ Gregory A. Boyd, Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013).

0^ Along with Boyd’s book, see Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001). Thinking about faith as imagination helps understand what Jesus was talking about when He spoke of “faith like a child” (Matt 18:3; Luke 18:17). Faith like a child is not ignorant faith or uninformed faith, but is faith that is full of imagination, wonder, creativity, playfulness, and hope.

0^ For more on this, see the article I published on this topic here: Jeremy Myers, “Now That’s Faith!” Grace in Focus Newsletter (January-February 2008). http://www.faithalone.org/magazine/y2008/faith.html Last Accessed July 20, 2014.

0^ C. S. Lewis, Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 91.

0^ Ibid., 125.

0^ Ibid., 126.

0^ For a more detailed explanation, I recommend René Lopez, “Is Faith a Gift from God or a Human Exercise?” Bibliotheca Sacra 164 (July–September 2007): 259-276. http://www.dts.edu/download/publications/bibliotheca/BibSac-Lopez-IsFaithAGiftfromGodoraHumanExercise.pdf Last Accessed July 13, 2014.

0^ Cf. a similar definition in Grant Hawley, The Guts of Grace: Preparing Ordinary Saints for Extraordinary Ministry (Allen, TX: BoldGrace, 2013), 125. He writes, “… to have faith is to be persuaded that something is true. It is to be fully convinced that what God says is true.”

0^ For more on the origins and definition of the word “gospel” see Jeremy Myers, “The Gospel is More than ‘Faith Alone in Christ Alone’” JOTGES (Autumn: 2006): 33-56. http://www.faithalone.org/journal/2006ii/03%20Myers%20-%20Gospel.pdf Last Accessed July 18, 2014.

0^ Ibid, 50.

0^ Cf. statements by Arthur C. Custance, Sovereignty of Grace (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1979), 302; David Engelsma, A Defense of Calvinism as the Gospel (Grandville, MI: Evangelism Committe, 1986), 18; Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Sovereign Grace Sermons (Edmonton, AB: Still Waters Revival, 1990), 129.

0^ W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1985), 547-548.

0^ Robert Farrar Capon, The Mystery of Christ... & Why We Don't Get It (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), 26.

0^ Ibid., 4.

0^ The committee contained leading Calvinistic scholars such as R. Laird Harris, Harold Stigers, Leon Morris, William Mounce, Gordon Fee, John Stek, Bruce Waltke, Douglas Moo, Roger Nicole, Simon Kistemaker, Marten Woudstra, Edwin Palmer, J. Burton Payne, and Charles Pfeiffer. See any NIV Bible for a list of members, or see http://www.bible-researcher.com/niv-translators.html (Last Accessed August 6, 2014) for an online list.

0^ R. C. Sproul, Grace Unknown: The Heart of Reformed Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997), 128.

0^ Duane Edward Spencer, TULIP: The Five Points of Calvinism in the Light of Scripture (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979), 32.

0^ Edwin H. Palmer, The Five Points of Calvinism, Enl. ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), 13.

0^ Ben Lacy Rose, T.U.L.I.P. The Five Disputed Points of Calvinism (Franklin, TN: Providence House, 1996), 2.

0^ David N. Steele, Curtis C. Thomas, and S. Lance Quinn, The Five Points of Calvinism: Defined, Defended and Documented, 2 ed. (Philadelphia: P&R, 1963, 2004), 18.

0^ Spencer, TULIP, 36.

0^ Palmer, Five Points, 9.

0^ James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken, The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel (Wheaton: Crossway, 2002), 71.

0^ Sproul, Grace Unknown, 130.

0^ Loraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1932), 60; Palmer, Five Points, 14; W. J. Seaton, The Five Points of Calvinism (Edinbugh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1970), 8; Steele et al., The Five Points of Calvinism, 18.

0^ Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God (Radford, VA: Wilder, 2009), 187.

0^ The Canons of Dort (Dordtrecht, Netherlands: Christian Reformed Church, 1619), III/IV:3. http://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/confessions/canons-dort Last Accessed August 6, 2014.

0^ Steele et al., The Five Points of Calvinism, 19.

0^ Spencer, TULIP, 35.

0^ Pink, The Sovereignty of God, 128.

0^ John Piper, Five Points: Toward a Deeper Understanding of God's Grace (Geanies House, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2014), 22.

0^ Dave Hunt and James White, Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2004), 69.

0^ C. H. Spurgeon, Free Will a Slave (Canton: Free Grace Publications, 1977), 3.

0^ David Wilmoth, “The Baptist Examiner Forum II,” The Baptist ExaminerSeptember 16, 1989, 5.

0^ Tom Ross, Abandoned Truth: The Doctrines of Grace (Xenia, OH: Providence Baptist Church, 1991), 56.

0^ W. E. Best, Free Grace Versus Free Will (Houston: W. E. Best Book Missionary Trust, 1977), 35, 43.

0^ Pink, The Sovereignty of God, 138.

0^ Boettner, Predestination, 62.

0^ Steele et al., The Five Points of Calvinism, 19.

0^ Gordon Clark, The Biblical Doctrine of Man (Jefferson: Trinity Foundation, 1984), 102.

0^ Pink, The Sovereignty of God, 141.

0^ John H. Gerstner, A Predestination Primer (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1960), 18.

0^ Robert Dabney, The Five Points of Calvinism (Harrisonburg: Sprinkle, 1992), 35.

0^ John MacArthur, Faith Works: The Gospel According to the Apostles (Dallas: Word, 1993), 64-65.

0^ Palmer, Five Points, 17-18.

0^ Seaton, Five Points. Also available online at: http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/fivepointsseaton.html Last Accessed August 19, 2014.

0^ Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 74.

0^ Steele et al., The Five Points of Calvinism, 19.

0^ John Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Law and the Gospel (Sanford, FL: Soi Deo Gloria, 2012). http://www.the-highway.com/lawandgospel2_Colquhoun.html Last Accessed August 28, 2014.

0^ John H. Gerstner, Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Critique of Dispensationalism (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 2000), 109.

0^ R. C. Sproul, Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997), 25-26.

0^ J. I. Packer and O. R. Johnson, “Historical and Theological Introduction,” in The Bondage of the Will (Westwood, NJ: Revell, 1957), 59.

0^ John MacArthur, The Gospel According to Jesus: What Does Jesus Mean When He Says "Follow Me"?, Rev. and exp. ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994), 172-173.

0^ Tom Wells, Faith: The Gift of God (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 1983), 55.

0^ Steele et al., The Five Points of Calvinism, 60.

0^ Spencer, TULIP, 36.

0^ John MacArthur, Transcribed from John MacArthur's tape GC 90-21 dealing with Lordship Salvation.

0^ Calvinists are often careful to note that this is a logical priority, not a temporal priority. They typically say that God’s regeneration and a believer’s act of faith are simultaneous in time, but separated only by the necessity of logic. This argument is called the ordo salutis, or the order of salvation. See, for example, Sproul, Willing to Believe, 193.

0^ C. Gordon Olson, Beyond Calvinism and Arminianism: An Inductive Mediate Theology of Salvation (Cedar Knolls, N.J.: Global Gospel Publishers, 2002), 39.

0^ Palmer, Five Points, 18-19.

0^ Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 74.

0^ Piper, Five Points, 35.

0^ R. C. Sproul, Chosen by God (Wheaton: Tyndale, 1986), 10, 72, 118.

0^ Pink, The Sovereignty of God, 73.

0^ Boettner, Predestination, 101.

0^ W. E. Best, Simple Faith: A Misnomer (Houston: W. E. Best Missionary Trust, 1993), 34.

0^ Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 79.

0^ From a tract entitled “Which Comes First In Conversion–Life or Faith?” By C.D.Cole. Published by Chapel Library, Venice, Florida. http://sglblibrary.homestead.com/files/Defdoc2/DEFDOC2.P2.12.htm Last Accessed August 19, 2014.

0^ MacArthur, Faith Works, 62.

0^ Spencer, TULIP, 35.

0^ R. Allan Killen, “Regeneration,” in The Wycliffe Bible Encylopedia, ed. Charles F. Pfieffer, John Rhea, and Howard F. Vos (Chicago: Moody, 1975), 1449.

0^ Wells, Faith, 58.

0^ Sproul, Willing to Believe, 23.

0^ R. C. Sproul, “Regeneration Precedes Faith.” http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/sproul01.html Last Accessed August 21, 2014. Daniel Musick contests the idea that Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Whitefield, and Aquinas taught that regeneration precedes faith. See Daniel Musick, “Faith Precedes Regeneration.” http://danmusicktheology.com/faith-precedes-regeneration/ Last Accessed August 21, 2014.

0^ Palmer, Five Points, 13.

0^ John Calvin, Calvin's New Testament Commentaries, ed. David W. Torrance and Thomas F. Torrance, trans., Ross MacKenzie, 23 vols. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960), Psalms v2: 290.

0^ Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary, trans., Jacob Neusner (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005), Baba Batra 91a, 271; Leib Pinter, Don't Give Up (Brooklyn: Mesorah, 2002), 187; Chana Weisberg, Tending the Garden (Southfield, MI: Targum, 2006), 187; Eliyahu Kitov, The Book of Our Heritage: The Jewish Year and Its Days of Significance, trans., Nachman Bulman (New York: Feldheim, 1997), 3:849-857. See also Yalkut Makiri Tehillim 118,28; Sefer HaTodaah, Sivan and Shavuot.

0^ Walter Bauer et al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 220-221.

0^ Ibid., 221.

0^ Laurence M. Vance, The Other Side of Calvinism (Pensacola, FL: Vance Publications, 1999), 225.

0^ Sproul, Grace Unknown, 136.

0^ Ibid., 153.

0^ Bauer et al., BAGD, 251.

0^ Ibid.

0^ Piper, Five Points, 27-30.

0^ George R Beasley-Murray, John, ed. David A. Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker, and Ralph P. Martin, Word Biblical Commentary (Waco: Word, 1987), 135.

0^ D. A. Carson, Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility (Atlanta: John Knox, 1981), 166.

0^ Palmer, Five Points, 14-15.

0^ Sproul, Grace Unknown, 120.

0^ Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 79.

0^ There are some who argue that much of Romans consists not of a long teaching by Paul, but a debate between Paul and one of his imaginary objectors. See Douglas A Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justificatin in Paul (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009). I see lots of merit to this view as it helps make sense of Paul’s over all argument in Romans, but even in that scenario, Romans 3:9-20 contain Paul’s words, not those of his objector. See also Timothy A. Brookins, “The Wise Man Among the Corinthians: Rethinking Their Wisdom in the Light of Ancient Stoicism and Studies on Ancient Economy” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Baylor University, 2012).

0^ To learn more about this, I highly recommend Campbell, The Deliverance of God. See the following link for a quick summary: http://girardianlectionary.net/special_series/Romans1-3_read-in-light-of-Campbell.htm

0^ Vance, The Other Side of Calvinism, 229.

0^ J. I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit (Old Tappen, NJ: Revell, 1984), 264-267.

0^ See Anthony A. Hoekema, "Response to Walvoord" in Melvin E. Dieter et al., Five Views on Sanctification (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), 232.

0^ John Murray, Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965), I:287.

0^ Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 78.

0^ Spencer, TULIP, 34.

0^ Palmer, Five Points, 16.

0^ Understanding the context of 1 Corinthians is also dependent in large part upon the realization that in this letter to the Corinthians, much like in his letter to the Romans, Paul is using epistolary diatribe argumentation. Throughout this letter he uses slogans and teachings of real (and imaginary) objectors, so that he can then use their teachings as a learning opportunity for all. First Corinthians 2:15 is likely one of these “slogans” or quotes from the interlocutor Paul is refuting. See Timothy A. Brookins, “The Wise Man among the Corinthians: Rethinking Their Wisdom in the Light of Ancient Stoicism and Studies on Ancient Economy,” Ph.D. Dissertation at Baylor University, May 2012. See also Denny Burk, “Discerning Corinthian Slogans through Paul’s Use of the Diatribe in 1 Corinthians 6:12-20,” BBL 18:1 (2008), 99-221.

0^ William Barclay, The Letters to the Corinthians, 2d ed. (Edinburgh: Saint Andrews Press, 1969), 28.

0^ Vance, The Other Side of Calvinism, 231.

0^ Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics (New York: Oxford, 1987), 113.

0^ Piper, Five Points, 34.

0^ N. T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: 2 Corinthians (Louisville: WJK, 2004), 42.

0^ N. T. Wright argues that the Spirit of the Lord is active in the fellowship of the saints, and this is where and how the veil is removed. See N. T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013), II:726.

0^ Wright, 2 Corinthians, 42.

0^ Palmer, Five Points, 16-19; Spencer, TULIP, 35.

0^ Sproul, Grace Unknown, 130.

0^ Boettner, Predestination, 65-66.

0^ Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 74.

0^ Vance, The Other Side of Calvinism, 220.

0^ Sproul, Chosen by God, 119.

0^ Sproul, Grace Unknown, 156.

0^ Note that in this example (and those that follow), I include the phrase twice in verse, even though the Greek pronoun toutō is only stated once. This is to help smooth the translation from Greek into English, for though the pronoun is only used once, it has two dependent clauses.

0^ René A. Lopez, “Is Faith a Gift from God or a Human Exercise?,” Bibliotheca Sacra 164, (July-September 2007): 271-273.

0^ See R. C. Sproul, “Regeneration Precedes Faith.” http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/sproul01.html Last accessed October 18, 2014.

0^ James R. White, The Potter's Freedom: A Defense of the Reformation and a Rebuttal of Norman Geisler's Chosen But Free (Amityville, NY: Calvary, 2000), 288.

0^ Lopez, “Is Faith a Gift from God or a Human Exercise?”: 266.

0^ Ibid., 262.

0^ Vance, The Other Side of Calvinism, 202.

0^ See the helpful discussion by Olson, Beyond Calvinism and Arminianism, 87-97.

0^ On these texts, see the following articles by Bob Wilkin: “Soul Talk, Soul Food, and Soul Salvation,” http://www.faithalone.org/magazine/y1991/91dec2.html; “Saving the Soul of a Fellow Christian (James 5:29-20) ,” http://www.faithalone.org/magazine/y1992/92jan3.html; “Saving Your Soul By Doing Good (James 1:21) ,” http://www.faithalone.org/magazine/y1992/92feb2.html; “Gaining by Losing (Matthew 16:24-28),” http://www.faithalone.org/magazine/y1992/92march2.html; “Suffering which results in Abundant Life (1 Peter 1:9),” http://www.faithalone.org/magazine/y1992/92may3.html. Last accessed October 25, 2014.

0^ Jeremy Myers, “What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?” http://www.tillhecomes.org/what-about-those-who-have-never-heard-the-gospel/ Last Accessed October 25, 2014.

0^ This exact question is raised by Sproul,

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