A whole lot of (Protestant) preachers get very passionate about salvation/justification coming from faith alone, where faith seems to consist of nothing more than mental assent to a propositional truth, specifically "Jesus died for your sins". (Otherwise, you get into the "dangerous territory" of "good works".)
At first glance, it all sounds biblical and there are plenty of proof texts to support the idea.
But gathering proof texts is not a solid way to build your theological imagination. It feeds into confirmation bias. You end up "studying to affirm" rather than "studying to learn", as Christian YouTuber Will Hess puts it.
What you really need is to consider the entailments of your doctrine as well as proof texts that might be used against it.
So here's a hypothetical for all the diehard "faith alone" types who also promote "once saved, always saved":
A 20-something young man dies after a drunken attempt to walk across a 3-lane highway in the dark following a heated argument with his live-in girlfriend. He hadn't stepped foot in a church in years.
At the funeral, his mother takes consolation in the fact that as a 10-year-old he had walked the aisle at church and put his faith in Jesus.
Was that a saving faith? Was he justified before God in that moment as a child with a justification he could never lose? Did he wake up in heaven?
I know you and I are not his judge, of course.
What I am asking is what conclusion your theology would point to.
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