Introduction:  What is Soteriology, and Why Does It Matter? Have you ever wondered why Christians today hold such different views about how people are saved? Some believe that once you’re saved, you can never fall away. Others argue that salvation requires an ongoing relationship with God, one that involves faith, obedience, and even transformation. Still…

Michael: Today I’m going to read a class that Dr. Weaver gave on September 12, 2015. I looked through the comments on the blog post, and most of the people here today didn’t comment on it, so I don’t think many of you were present then. This might be new to you. I really liked…

Over the past two weeks, we’ve been exploring a powerful question: What does a grace-transformed life actually look like? To answer that, we turned to Galatians 5:22,23, where Paul describes the fruits of the Spirit that begin to grow in the life of someone walking in step with the Spirit. We began by dividing these…

Last week we began examining the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22. We basically asked the question: What does a grace-transformed person look like? People usually think a person transformed by grace looks sinless or perfectly obedient to the Ten Commandments. But we talked about how, in our sinful bodies, we won’t be like…

In our recent classes, we’ve been looking at the Seventh-day Adventist fundamental beliefs through the lens of grace. We saw that while most of the official beliefs of the Adventist church agree with grace on paper, sometimes in tone and practice, they don’t fully reflect it. We also noticed that a few beliefs, or certain…

This class was unusual in that it began with a reading by Kiran of remarks made by Dr. Weaver in class on May 4, 2013. I asked ChatGPT to compare the discussion we had today with the discussion in class in 2013. The result is appended below. (Kiran, quoting Don): The third pillar of community…