I am not the gatekeeper to heaven, and neither are you. And we shouldn't boil the Gospel down into multiple doctrines demanding a thorough affirmation of every primary doctrine that we consider essential for salvation. I however, believe, a more prudent approach to people would be that we should only lack confidence in someone's conversion if they consistently reject a fundamental tenet. It might be wiser to concentrate on whether we would admit such an individual into voting rights or teaching recognition in the church rather than speculate about the condition of their soul. It's God's prerogative to oversee access to heaven, while it's ours to oversee membership in the congregation.
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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