Salvation, Grace, and Justification

Salvation, Grace, and Justification: Questions & Answers

Explore 44 questions and answers about Salvation, Grace, and Justification, answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis.

How does Jesus complete the redemption by ascending to the Father in John 20:17?
Why do sacrifices please and appease God?
Is there a consensus of the Fathers supporting penal substitutionary atonement?
Is salvation by desire the same as baptism of desire?
Does Psalm 139:16 teach Calvinism?
If Old Testament sacrifices did not take away sins (Hebrews 10:11), what was their point?
When does a soul receive the Holy Spirit, and what is the difference between sanctifying and actual grace?
Was Judas Iscariot predestined to betray Jesus and be damned?
In what sense did God 'redeem' Israel from Egypt, and was a price paid?
Does Isaiah 53:10-12 teach that the Father poured out His wrath on the servant Jesus?
How do Arminian Protestants describe salvation if they reject once-saved-always-saved?
Is the 'eternal covenant of redemption' biblical?
What is the Abrahamic covenant, why did it pass through Isaac and not Ishmael, and is it still in force?
If God kept Mary from Original Sin, why doesn't He keep others from it?
Why not simple forgiveness; why blood sacrifice; is Jeremiah 32:35 against sacrifice?
Did Jesus pay for all sins ‘in full,’ leaving only belief to us?
How do you reconcile Romans 2:13 with Paul's later statements about justification?
If Adam's sin brought death to all automatically, shouldn't the Second Adam's salvation automatically bring life to all?
Can anyone be certain of their salvation in this life?
Does Romans 9 teach Calvinist unconditional election?
Did Pelagius get a bad rap, and does genuine free will require some 'autonomy' from God?
Is it right to create a 'Hebrew Catholic Rite' that reintroduces Jewish laws and customs?
Is the distinction between actual and sanctifying grace useful in refuting the 'L' in Calvinism's TULIP?
If Sunday is the first day of the week, why do we rest on it when God rested on the seventh day?
Why do you call molinism a fudge factor, and can free will be reconciled with God's foreknowledge?
To whom did Christ pay the ransom for our sins?
Does the New Testament abolish the whole Mosaic law, or only its ceremonial part?
Is it the blood of Christ or His death that redeems us?
Can someone like Cornelius be righteous through general revelation, without knowledge of Christ?
Does 'sanctified by the blood of the covenant' in Hebrews 10:29 prove the man was saved?
Is faith a single gift from God, or something we can grow in ourselves?
Do works save you, or do works reveal that you are saved?
In 1 Corinthians 9, could Paul really become 'disqualified,' and is he speaking about salvation?
Does 2 Peter 1:9 describe a believer who fails to add virtue to his faith and loses his salvation?
What was the trigger for the first coming of Christ in the fullness of time? Was it the building of the second temple?
Do good works done before baptism and confirmation increase anything?
What are the major problems with the Free Grace teaching that you stay saved even if you stop believing?
What is the difference between the ransom theory of atonement and penal substitution, and is either correct?
Is there Scripture to show a non-Catholic that there are degrees of sin?
Are invincible ignorance and baptism of desire well-substantiated, or is there room for doubt?
Since the Father draws us in John 6:44, are there people God does not draw?
When God hardened Pharaoh's heart, did He remove Pharaoh's free will?
Is justification an internal change of the soul or only a forensic covering?
How do you answer Calvinists who say that rejecting monergism means taking partial credit for your own salvation?

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