The Weight of Every Word
In 1881, B.B. Warfield sat in his Princeton study, examining the Greek text of Ephesians 2:8-9 with painstaking precision. Every word mattered. Every tense carried...
This is tradition perspectives on grace, drawing on Ephesians 2:8-9.
In 1881, B. B. Warfield sat in his Princeton study, examining the Greek text of Ephesians 2:8-9 with painstaking precision. Every word mattered. Every tense carried theological freight. Paul did not write loosely. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he chose "saved" in the perfect tense — a completed action with enduring results. Not "being saved," not "might be saved."…
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