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The Gospel Under Siege: A Study on Faith and Works
Book by Hodges, Zane C.
124 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1981
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April 17, 2013
Hodges was a breath of fresh air after reading John MacArthur. Hodges asks a very simple question that no one on the other side seems to answer adequately, if works prove your salvation, how is it not works salvation? Hodges is one of the few who simply, yet deeply presents a defense of the gospel. He also brings in the doctrine of rewards which most completely ignore.
October 31, 2019
Really good, but Hodges’ jabs aimed directly at John MacArthur and others diminishes his credibility a bit.
December 13, 2011
Before my rating gets misunderstood, I want to say that I also, with Zane Hodges, am against the so-called "Lordship Salvation" doctrine that gets preached by men like John MacArthur and Steven Lawson, but I fear Hodges has done a terribly poor job of challenging them. There are two typical sides to the Lordship debate, which I will represent by MacArthur and Hodges, and while they both oppose one another, they both are actually in agreement on a fundamental error, and this is what makes the debate so confusing. Both sides agree that to make Jesus your Lord means to live your life a certain way, stopping yours sins and obeying the commands. MacArthur says that a person needs to make Jesus the Lord of his life if he wants to be saved, and Hodges argues that a person doesn't, seeing that if that were the case, then the gospel would be compromised (to which I agree). But they are both in error by defining Lordship as your way of life.
This error makes Hodges book convoluted and terrible. In his attempt to rescue the gospel from a works-based system, he brutalizes passages of Scriptures to do so, all because he himself is in error on the definition of Lordship. Rather than seeing that Lordship is all about faith in Christ, he thinks it is about works, and therefore attempts to distance Lordship from salvation, and the result is messy and incoherent. He rather ought to have understood that one does indeed need to make Jesus Lord in order to be saved (as MacArthur rightly argues), and then he should have challenged the erroneous definition of Lordship.
Both MacArthur and Hodges are in error, though I appreciate Hodges' desire to protect the gospel of grace through faith. After reading this book, I can understand why MacArthur was so infuriated by it, but he himself has not written Biblically either. We need drop erroneous traditional interpretations and get back to paying more close attention to the Bible.
This error makes Hodges book convoluted and terrible. In his attempt to rescue the gospel from a works-based system, he brutalizes passages of Scriptures to do so, all because he himself is in error on the definition of Lordship. Rather than seeing that Lordship is all about faith in Christ, he thinks it is about works, and therefore attempts to distance Lordship from salvation, and the result is messy and incoherent. He rather ought to have understood that one does indeed need to make Jesus Lord in order to be saved (as MacArthur rightly argues), and then he should have challenged the erroneous definition of Lordship.
Both MacArthur and Hodges are in error, though I appreciate Hodges' desire to protect the gospel of grace through faith. After reading this book, I can understand why MacArthur was so infuriated by it, but he himself has not written Biblically either. We need drop erroneous traditional interpretations and get back to paying more close attention to the Bible.
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