Its hard to believe anyone takes it seriously, but I reckon that is what deception is all about.

One of the major things is that salvation is not so much a matter of individual justification, nor that justification is a "forensic declaration" of the individual's righteous standing before God, as it is a person's membership in the covenant. Signified by baptism, the individual must then "live up to their baptism" in order to attain salvation. But all baptized persons are counted as members of the covenant and inheritors of salvation.

Even as Arminian pentecostals we knew better than this, the first half anyway.

# Imputation of Christ's perfect righteousness to the believing sinner is rejected.
# Faith is redefined to mean a 'badge of identity' of being a member of the covenant community rather than a personal embracing and trusting in the person of the Lord Christ for salvation.
# Election is not an eternal and irrevocable decree of God but rather an ongoing status of an individual which can be lost through neglect of being obedient to demands of the covenant, aka: law

Come to think of it, there's a clear reflection of AOG style pentecostalism here. If you're willing to go back there for those leeks it's not much further to Rome for the onions.

Last edited by Hitch; Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:15 AM.