Matthew W Bates: 3 books
Gospel Allegiance
What Faith in Jesus Misses for Salvation in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Is faith in Jesus enough for salvation? Perhaps, says Matthew Bates, but we're missing pieces of the gospel. The biblical gospel can never change. Yet our understanding of the gospel must change. The church needs an allegiance shift.
Popular pastoral resources on the gospel are causing widespread...
Salvation by Allegiance Alone
Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
We are saved by faith when we trust that Jesus died for our sins. This is the gospel, or so we are taught. But what is faith? And does this accurately summarize the gospel? Because faith is frequently misunderstood and the climax of the gospel misidentified, the gospel's full power remains untapped....
The Birth of the Trinity
Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament and Early Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
How and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God? The Birth of the Trinity offers a new historical approach by exploring the way in which first- and second-century Christians read the Old Testament in order to differentiate the one God as multiple persons. The earliest Christians...