[Executive summary]Clement of Rome in 1 Clement teaches a soteriology where initial salvation is by faith alone (sola fide) and is a two-step formula of repenting (which is synonymous with believing) and calling upon God for salvation. Ongoing salvation has to be maintained by works.This explains how he says we...
Robert Breaker, on May 5th, 2026, made this livestream: "Faith in the Blood is NOT a Modern Doctrine." In it, he reads multiple historical quotes and says it shows his salvation theology had 'historical backing'. I will fact check all of these quotes.Let's define his salvation theology.When I say his...
This is every Early Christian commentary, early church commentary, and church father writing on Romans 10:9-15. I've divided this into three schools of thought.1. The Early Church Antiochene school of thought, including John Chrysostom, who teaches salvation is given by believing and calling on God in prayer to give you...
In 1753, Robert Lowth made his landmark work De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum (Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews). His work essentially established the idea that Hebrew had parallelism."Robert Lowth uses the first stanza of Psalm 114 as his example for parallelism. The psalm celebrates Israel's passing through the...
There is a common hallucination among LLMs that the early church took Romans 10:9-10 as connected to Baptism.In order to prove that the first written reading of it meaning baptismal vows is found in Augustine of Hippo's writings, I will look at every Romans commentary leading to Augustine of Hippo.Again,...
"He who hath redeemed thee, hath shewn thee what He would have thee do. He would have thee be instant in prayer, He would have thee ponder in thy heart the blessings thou art praying for, He would have thee ask and receive what His goodness is longing to impart....
Thank you to Brother Don Nesbitt, the Lord's bloodhound. His youtube handle is @w46try7. The Lord put it on my heart to write that.I am not claiming that all of these men are in the Mandatory Vocalization Club (check my youtube, TylerMcLaughlin-t1n if that confuses you). This article exists for...