Arlen Chitwood and Soul Salvation
Posted
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
by
Charlie Trimm
A good friend of mine was recently asking me about Arlen Chitwood and his unusual view of salvation. I had never heard of him or his view, so I did a little searching to try and find it. It is rather interesting, although I mean interesting with a more negative spin than I might usually use the word. His view is that humans are trichotomist, and when we get saved our spirit gets saved. Then later on, our soul must get saved. So soul winning is not evangelism, but it is getting people in the church to save their souls. For me as a dichomotist (believing that humans have two essential parts, material and immaterial, rather than the three essential parts that the trichotomists believe of body, soul, and spirit) the theory holds very little water from the very beginning. Have any of you run into this view before? Anyone know of any critiques of it online? Here is a link to the book (full text) presenting the view.
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