It is a Socinian and heretical position to conclude that we can be saved through keeping God’s commands even though we wrongly conceive of God in our minds and are ignorant of him, his nature, attributes, and works as they are revealed in Scripture.

Samuel Rutherford, The Works of Samuel Rutherford: Arminianism: A Systematic and Theological Response, ed. Chad Van Dixhoorn, trans. David C. Noe (Reformation Heritage Books, 2026), 1:266.

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• Inwoo Lee

  

  Inwoo Lee (BA, UCSD) earned his MA (Historical Theology) in 2020 from Westminster Seminary California and is author of “Righteous Before God: William Perkins’ Doctrine of Justification in Elizabethan England” (MA Thesis, Westminster Seminary California, 2020). He lives in the Great Seoul area, in South Korea with his wife Holly.

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