Sentences with phrase «about justification by faith»

In fact, it used to bother me that Jesus wasn't more clear about justification by faith alone.

The Bible sometimes talks about justification by faith and sometimes a final vindication by works at the final judgement.

We used to ridicule those who talked about justification by faith because that talk seemed to be an excuse for them not to take Jesus» call to discipleship seriously.

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For example, he talks about the heresies of «justification by faith alone» (p. 237), annihilationism, hyper - preterism (p. 242), Openness of God, and Religious Inclusivism (p. 281).

Adamant about the centrality of justification by faith through grace, we sometimes verge on a perverse kind of theological works - righteousness.

It is in this context that Paul says much about the natural man being «in sin,» until its burden is lifted and victory is won through justification by faith in Jesus Christ.

We are justified by faith in the Messiah not by believing the correct doctrine about justification.

Being a Reformed (Calvinist) theologian of considerable earnestness, McGrath's essay understandably dwells at length on the formula «justification by faith alone,» and related questions about, for instance, the connection between justification and sanctification.

Or brags about belonging to a movement which teaches justification by faith.

At the beginning of Romans — the epistle of justification by faith — Paul introduces himself as an apostle set apart for the gospel and explains the gospel as a message about God's Son, born in the flesh as a descendant of David and raised from the dead by the power of the Spirit.

There remains a theological problem, in the tendency of popular evangelical discourse to reduce the gospel to regeneration and justification by faith alone, as though conversion were only about entrance to the faith.

In February, Spalatin sent one of his worried queries about Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone.