Randy Alcorn

What Makes You Think Salvation Can't Be Lost?

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If salvation can be lost, this requires a reversal of regeneration.

What Makes a Human Life "Meaningful"?

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Who determines which lives are meaningful and which aren’t? The answer, always, is that powerful people decide whether weaker people’s lives are meaningful.

What Kind of Response Have You Gotten from the African American Community about Deadline and Dominion?

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It’s been a wonderful response from African Americans.

What Is Your View on Limited Atonement?

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If logic were my authority, my belief in the other four points of Calvinism would compel me to believe in limited atonement.

What Is Your View on Expositional Preaching?

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The point is that there is not one right way to teach the Bible—the Bible can and should be taught in a variety of ways (taking into account learning styles, for instance).

What Is Your View on Birth Control?

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This is a tough issue, and the toughest part is that we’ve grown up in a society forged by people like Margaret Sanger, and the church has largely bought into a selfish, anti-child, population-control mentality.

What Is Your Stance on the Two Major Political Parties?

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There are Christians who are Libertarians and Constitution Party members, as well as Republicans and Democrats.

What Is Your Response to My Disappointment with the Local Church and Decision to Attend a Small Group Bible Study Instead?

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We have a natural desire to be independent, but we need godly church leaders, and should seek to find a local church that has godly leaders rather than to withdraw from churches.

Do You Think that Leviticus 17 Is a Biblical Basis for Belief that Life Begins at Implantation?

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These passages are not attempting to teach a theology of when human life begins and should not be used in support of abortion at any stage.  

What Is Your Position on the Timing of the Rapture?

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I’m not sure of the rapture’s timing. I affirm the second coming of Christ and am premillennial, but depending on what Scriptures one goes to, a case can be made for pre-trib, post-trib, mid-trib and various adaptations of those positions.