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Grace and the unfortunate 'isms'

Throughout biblical interpretive history, there has been many many many different offshoots and opinions. Every time someone would come up with a framework to understanding what is often hidden to us, they put an 'ism' on it. Here is the result of my research…

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Throughout biblical interpretive history, there has been many many many different offshoots and opinions. Every time someone would come up with a framework to understanding what is often hidden to us, they put an 'ism' on it. 

Here is the result of my research into the list of 'isms' that surround those who believe in the Bible.


---GraceGuide.net's list of 'isms'---

THEOLOGY: SALVATION
Classical Arminianism
Wesleyan Arminianism
Calvinism
Hyper-Calvinism
Lutheranism
Pelagianism
Semi-Pelagianism
Antinomianism

THEOLOGY: APOLOGETICS
Presuppositionalism 
Ontologicalism
Evidentialism
Doctrinalism
Moralism
Scientific
Experientialism

THEOLOGY: ESCHATOLOGY
Post-tribulational Premillennialism
Dispensationalism
Postmillennialism
Amillennialism

THEOLOGY: CHRISTOLOGY
Trinitarianism
Unitarianism
Binitarianism

THROUGH HISTORY: CHRSTIANITY
Protestantism
Anglicanism
Eastern Orthodoxism
Oriental Orthodoxism
Roman Catholicism

THROUGH HISTORY: REFORMATION CHRISTIANITY
Anabaptism 
Anglicanism
Calvinism 
Counter-Reformation 
Lutheranism 
Polish Brethren 
Remonstrantism

THROUGH HISTORY: MODERN DAY PROTESTANTISM
Pietism 
Methodism
Evangelicalism
Adventism
Modernism 
Liberalism
Pentecostalism
Anglicanism
Lutheranism
Presbyterianism
Fundamentalism
Neo-orthodoxy
New Evangelicalism
Paleo-Orthodoxy
Ecumenism
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One of the most attracting features of the doctrine of Grace is that is cuts through all the 'isms' the human mind can invent. We cannot opinionate the gift of God for man's salvation, the exclusion of any deed to make us deserve it or the power of the subsequent relationship Grace gives us.

Grace cuts through it all. And it is the one thing that will unite all heaven dwellers, no matter what their 'isms'. 

Grace, the best common denominator to all the 'isms'. And the greatest equalizer.