Salvation - God’s Purpose

Salvation - God’s Purpose, Efficiency

W. T. Conner kept the balance between God’s sovereignty and man’s freedom. While God alone saves, Conner guards human volition, response, and self-determination against false concepts of a deterministic, fatalistic, magical, and non-ethical deity. Man, called by the Holy Spirit, is free to receive Jesus, the Son of God, whose mission it was to seek and save the lost.

Salvation - God’s Purpose, Individual

While some Calvinistic authors seek to portray W. T. Conner as affirming the five major points of their system, a close reading of his work shows that he is broadly Protestant and deeply evangelical. Even though Conner adheres to a nuanced doctrine of unconditional election, his teaching on the biblical doctrine was merely single, not double, and never attributes to God’s will man’s disobedience or unbelief.

Salvation - God’s Purpose, Evidence

W. T. Conner saw God’s purpose of Salvation evidenced in three distinct movements: (1) religious history, (2) Old Testament teaching and history, and (3) the life of Jesus Christ. Discover how God’s fixed purpose, in three separate parts, draws to complete realization in Christ, the Messiah.

Salvation - God’s Purpose

W. T. Conner agreed with Princeton theologians that there was nothing deeper in the mind and purpose of God than His purpose to redeem. This was evidenced in that God’s final revelation in Christ as Savior and Lord matched purposefully with man’s greatest need , salvation from sin.

Sin - Death

W. T. Conner traced the biblical concept of death from the Law to the Gospels and from the Epistles to the Apocalypse. He understood sin’s penalty as spiritual death and natural death as the summation and consummation of natural evil.