Sentences with phrase «justification by faith became»

The emphasis on justification by faith became common coin among the Reformers and their confessions.

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

Not exact matches

Justification in the sight of man by way of sanctification or becoming ever more like Christ is a process which has the potential of saving others.; this by exemplifying through faith in action that faith alone in the blood of Christ alone saves you, this on the hope of attracting believers from faith to faith in action and unbelievers first to faith and salvation and then to faith in action, paying it forward, growing His Kingdom.

This group became suspect as it inclined dangerously towards the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

There follow five paragraphs of his new understanding of what eventually became the fully fledged doctrine of justification by faith alone.