If you think you are saved by having a proper understading of the five points of calvinism, or by getting your understanding of the extent of the atonement right, you have missed the Gospel by adding to it. These are certainly important topics. They are issues that the true believer will endeavor to "get right." However, your understanding of these things is not the Gospel. The puritan John Bradford once wrote, "Let a man go to the grammar school of faith and repentance, before he goes to the university of election and predestination." Now while I still believe that election and predestination are core gospel truths, and anyone that denies these things is denying the Gospel, these are still not a requirement to understand in order to be saved by Jesus.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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