Free grace theology

Free grace theology is a soteriological view, in which the sole condition of receiving eternal life is initial faith. Free Grace theologians hold that good works are neither an initial condition of salvation, a condition of keeping salvation nor necessary to prove salvation. Although some Free grace theologians such as Charles Ryrie have held to various points of the TULIP, they deny the necessity of perseverance for salvation. Although a carnal Christian can be saved, they will face temporal consequences such as God's discipline, lack of fellowship and loss of rewards. A few such as Jody Dillow have even proposed the possibility of post mortem punishment for unfaithful Christians.

Free Grace theology denies that turning from sin is a necessary condition or a necessary result of salvation, which is contradictary to the Reformed confessions which state the necessity of repentance from sin:

This saving repentance is an evangelical grace, whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self–abhorrancy, praying for pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavor, by supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God unto all well–pleasing in all things. (1689 London Baptist Confession).

Free grace theologians often attempt to define the Greek word translated as "repentance", as a mere synonym for faith, instead of a turning from sin.