vol. 35, Issue #2

Online Journal Article: "DEGREES OF REWARD IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?" CRAIG L. BLOMBERG* JETS 35/2 (June 1992) 159-172

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"DEGREES OF REWARD IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?"
CRAIG L. BLOMBERG*
JETS 35/2 (June 1992) 159-172

Excerpt:
The lordship-salvation debate rages on. In the recent pages of this
Journal, John MacArthur pursues his thesis first laid out in detail in The
Gospel According to Jesus, considering it now in light of the epistle of
James.1 One of the respondents to the article, Earl Radmacher, declares
MacArthur's view to be one of three examples of contemporary evangelicalism's return to a view of authority akin to Roman Catholicism. A more balanced assessment, and one of the finest brief reviews of the debate, appeared already in an article by Darrell Bock. Whatever else one thinks of arguments against lordship salvation, one ought to acknowledge their
commendable concern to preserve a full-orbed Biblical doctrine of salvation by grace through faith alone. But ironically it is precisely in those circles—largely but by no means exclusively dispensationalist in heritage—that rightly seek to preserve the strong Reformation tradition of God's freely granted justification apart from any human merit that often acontrary doctrine is also vigorously promoted: the doctrine of degrees of reward in heaven.
--from page 1 of the article