Church Statement of Faith - Soteriology

[Grant]

Good Day,

Our family is on holiday and planning our Lord’s Day the best we can in an area with limited options. Thankfully church websites can help our family be discerning. To be clear, I do not agree with anything in the below, but am curious for input. I am mainly scratching my head on the last sentence for stating “faith” as a “sole” “condition”? Any input or experience dealing with this mindset? Dangerous enough to not attend for a random Lord’s Day while traveling?
I will also add the below because it may qualify what they mean further:

 

[SolaScriptura]

Everything about that top statement of theirs is bad. Stay away. If no decent churches are available, watch mine online.

 

[chuckd]

I am mainly scratching my head on the last sentence for stating “faith” as a “sole” “condition”? Any input or experience dealing with this mindset?

Focusing on this alone, I believe this is confessional. WCF Ch. 7.2 "requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved." Faith is the sole condition of the covenant of grace even though God promises "to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to believe."

Covenant, conditionality, and condemnation

In the various threads on the nature of the Mosaic covenant, advocates for viewing it as a republication of the covenant of works often use two lines of argument to prove their position. The first line of argument is the aspect of conditionality; it is maintained that a covenant of grace...

www.puritanboard.com

 

[Grant]

Everything about that top statement of theirs is bad. Stay away. If no decent churches are available, watch mine online.

Due to recent topics and this post I am having images of you being the Cookie Monster for any believer looking for a church

If we ever pass through Texas I will try to stop in. However, we do have a back-up online plan with our local PCA churches.

Focusing on this alone, I believe this is confessional. WCF Ch. 7.2 "requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved." Faith is the sole condition of the covenant of grace even though God promises "to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to believe."

Covenant, conditionality, and condemnation

In the various threads on the nature of the Mosaic covenant, advocates for viewing it as a republication of the covenant of works often use two lines of argument to prove their position. The first line of argument is the aspect of conditionality; it is maintained that a covenant of grace...

www.puritanboard.com

Chuck that was my gut feeling as well. I get they have an issue with Calvin’s doctrine of election (in my reading of the Institutes that is also understandable), but I just would not agree with fully rejecting Calvin on the subject.

 

[RamistThomist]

Sounds like the typical Bible (biblicist?) church: we aren't Calvinists or Arminians. We just believe what the Bible says. In other words, once saved, always saved.

 

[SolaScriptura]

The thing that should be causing alarm bells to be worrying off is there rejection of Lordship salvation. Within that ecclesial context, what that means is they embrace cheap grace/easy believism.

 

[TheInquirer]

That statement sounds like it was crafted by uneducated individuals who really have no idea what they are talking about and trying to be clever.

 

[Grant]

That statement sounds like it was crafted by uneducated individuals who really have no idea what they are talking about and trying to be clever.

Yeah I just found myself wondering how the statement could be true.