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Tag Archives: justification
Far-Fetched Interpretations
In researching how much the Reformers relied on or referenced the early church fathers, I ran across this article on The Old Jamestown Church blog. That particular post defends the Reformation view of salvation by faith alone with citations from … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged clement of rome, faith, faith versus works, judgment, justification, salvation, verses versus verses, works
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Questions About Salvation
This is an email I wrote this morning. I think it’s anonymous enough to post publicly. 1. What does “saved” mean to me? “Saved” is a big word that means different things in different context. In Romans 5:9-10 for example, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Gospel, Modern Doctrines
Tagged apostles, assurance, atonement, eternal security, faith vs works, Gospel, grace, judgment, justification, once saved always saved, paid penalty, ransom, redemption, righteousness, salvation, saved, soteriology
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The Gospel: Dare We Trust It?
The article, Jesus vs. Paul, by Scot McKnight is, in my opinion, absolutely crucial for modern Evangelicals not only to read … but to understand and hold onto. I found it painfully long and slow to get to the point, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Gospel
Tagged gospel of the kingdom, jesus vs paul, justification, preaching the gospel, scot mcknight
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Righteousness and the Man to Whom God Will Not Impute Sin
I’m going to try a very theological post for those who have struggled with some of the same questions concerning faith and works that I have. Romans 4:6-8 says: David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes … Continue reading
Posted in Gospel, Modern Doctrines
Tagged early christian writings, faith, forgiveness, impute sin, justification, righteousness, works
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Harmonization vs. Conflict in the Scripture
In my last post I talked a little about faith verse works. I mentioned that "faith plus works" is not a bad thing in Scripture, but a good thing. It’s only a bad thing in our fundamentalist Protestant tradition. Why … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Modern Doctrines
Tagged bible interpretation, difficult verses, faith, harmonization, james, justification, paul, works
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Roman Catholicism, the Orthodox Churches, and Salvation
This is another email I sent in response to questions that were asked. In addition to the email I was responding to, I have had several recent emails from supporters of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Most are unable … Continue reading
Baptism and the Sinner’s Prayer
This is a response I just sent to someone. There’s nothing personal in it, so I wanted to post this here. I hope there’s something helpful in it: The thing that helped me most with baptism was comparing it to … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Doctrines, prayer
Tagged baptism, justification, public testimony, sinner's prayer
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Confidence in the Flesh and Knowing Christ
This morning in Bible study a few of us were looking at Galatians 2. Obviously, as we go further in Galatians, we need a good working definition of justification, and we went after that. The Greek word justify is just … Continue reading
Posted in Gospel, Holiness, Modern Doctrines
Tagged confidence in the flesh, justification, knowing God, righteousness, works
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Romans and Romans
We’ve been going through Romans in a Bible study on Tuesday and Thursday mornings before work. It’s pretty neat. I want to talk about some of the things we talk about there–for two reasons. One, they’re radical and life-changing. Two, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, History, Modern Doctrines
Tagged Bible, eternal security, justification, politics, salvation
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