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    It is not the case that D.A. Carson argues in 'The Gagging of God' that scriptural warrant consistently ties salvific efficacy to proclaimed, received, and confessed Gospel content, not abstract divine application.

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    • 1.Carson's framework struggles with salvation of infants, the severely cognitively disabled, and believers who lack full doctrinal clarity or literacy.
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    • 2.Equating 'proclaimed content' with salvific efficacy potentially excludes Spirit-wrought faith in contexts where Gospel proclamation is historically impossible or suppressed.
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    • 3.Romans 10:9-10 and similar passages may emphasize *confession* as evidence of prior faith, not as the mechanism generating salvific efficacy itself.
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    • 1.Scripture repeatedly emphasizes faith *in* Gospel proclamation: Romans 10:17 'faith comes by hearing' and John 17:20 'those who believe through their word.'
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    • 2.Salvation requires cognitive assent to specific truths. Confessing 'Jesus is Lord' and believing resurrection involves propositional content, not mere mystical experience.
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    • 3.Christ's Great Commission centers on *teaching* 'all things commanded,' implying Gospel content matters definitively for salvation, not as secondary.
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