W. T. Conner saw God’s purpose of Salvation evidenced in three distinct movements: (1) religious history, (2) Old Testament teaching and history, and (3) the life of Jesus Christ. Discover how God’s fixed purpose, in three separate parts, draws to complete realization in Christ, the Messiah.

W. T. Conner agreed with Princeton theologians that there was nothing deeper in the mind and purpose of God than His purpose to redeem. This was evidenced in that God’s final revelation in Christ as Savior and Lord matched purposefully with man’s greatest need , salvation from sin.

W. T. Conner traced the biblical concept of death from the Law to the Gospels and from the Epistles to the Apocalypse. He understood sin’s penalty as spiritual death and natural death as the summation and consummation of natural evil.

In his treatment of sin and the suffering it causes in the world, W. T. Conner shows God using sin as part of his redemptive purpose in Christ. See how W. T. Conner reads the Bible as a story of God redeeming sin and suffering through the blood of the Lamb, slain before the foundation of the world.

Building on Christ the cornerstone as his foundation, W. T. Conner anchored his view of social justice in theology. Sin is the source of all social injustice. Christ is the source of all social reconciliation, first between man and God and then between man and man.

Challenging the progressive philosophy of his age, W. T. Conner teaches from Paul’s epistle to the church in Rome that morality without religion is a falling tower doomed to degradation. Renewed spiritual life in God is the only remedy for man’s immorality.

If, as the Doxology Hymn reminds us, all blessings flow from God and sin separates us from God, the separation of sin naturally results in alienation from God. W. T. Conner taught that the goodness of God is not in a person apart from spiritual recreation in Christ.

W. T. Conner appealed to general evangelical theological consensus when making his case for infant salvation. While Conner does not cite his influences, it is likely he referred to the theologians he often cited like the Scottish Congregationalist P. T. Forsyth and fellow Southern Baptist E. Y. Mullins. Conner did not cite a biblical proof text, but relied on God’s character as revealed in Christ to defend his position.

Like E. Y. Mullins before him, W. T. Conner nuances the traditional understanding of original sin and total depravity. Conner - while describing children with the label “sinner” - refrains from teaching inborn guilt for Adam’s sin, arguing that slavery to sin’s evil forces and the natural human inclination toward sin more closely mirror Scripture’s explanation of mankind’s sinful heredity.

The Apostle Paul taught that no one is righteous, because all have turned away from God. W. T. Conner described this as the universality of sin.