Sentences with phrase «justified by faith»

• Scripture makes it clear that people are justified by faith.

Romans 5:1... «Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.»

They were called Anabaptists because they insisted that the baptism of infants was not true baptism, that only believers should be baptized, and that if an individual had been baptized in infancy, after he had the experience of being justified by faith he should be re-baptized.

We are justified by faith alone NOW but at the End we are justified by our works.

Indeed, we are justified by faith apart from works of the law.

On the other hand we have Paul saying: «We hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law» (Romans 3:28).

There would be questions of biblical theology about the nature of Christian freedom, the relation between law and Gospel, the meaning of the law for those justified by faith.

Only he who is justified by faith shall live, writes St. Paul in Romans, but we often forget that justification is not only of life but of knowledge as well.

A man is justified by faith and therein finds his peace with God (Romans 3:28; 5:1).

If we are the Messiah's and have been justified by faith then we will be sanctified by the power of God working in us.

We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

For if Bultmann's final defense of an existentialist theology is not that it is apologetically imperative, but that it is, with respect to belief, the contemporary expression of the Pauline doctrine that we are justified by faith alone without the works of the law, it seems to me that the final and comparably sufficient defense of a liberation theology is that it is, with respect to action, the contemporary expression of the equally Pauline doctrine that the only faith that justifies is the faith that works by love.

Much of Galatians consists of Paul's ad hoc arguments for the inadequacy of the Torah: the Galatians had received the Spirit by faith, not by works of the law (3:2); Abraham was justified by faith, not by works of tile law (3:6); the Mosaic covenant did not supplant the promise to Abraham (3:17 - 18); the law was only a temporary measure (3:23 - 25); and so on.

Paul, in saying that Abraham was justified by faith, refers to the events in Genesis 15 where God promises to Abraham that he will be the father of many nations and that the Messiah would come through Abraham.

Gentiles would be justified by faith, Paul argued — not by works of» the Jewish law.

Some within the New Perspective posit a two - covenant plan of salvation: Jews are justified by works of the law and gentiles are justified by faith (John Gager and Stanley Stowers, building on work by Lloyd Gaston and Krister Stendahl).

He says that Abraham was justified by faith, apart from works!

It is possible to expound simple moralism; it is another matter to communicate that kind of moral gravity which has no faith in morals but, being justified by faith, has a dynamics for moral responsibility that is forever confusing to the moralist!

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

It came to Paul in the conviction that the law was our schoolmaster (R.S.V. custodian) until Christ came, but that being justified by faith we are no longer under it (Gal.

What we do acknowledge is a unity in Christ with Roman Catholic believers who, no less than we ourselves, have been saved by God's grace and justified by faith alone.

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God....

say with Paul «that we are justified by faith alone» or «by faith without works»» (Rom.

For Luther, the experience of being justified by faith was «as though I had been born again.»

But every time I read Paul's words about being «justified by our faith» I was confused and didn't understand what he meant.

It is one thing to be justified by faith merely as an instrument by which man receives the righteousness of Christ, and another to be justified FOR faith as an act or work of the law.

Nor does the experience of being justified by faith through the grace of God put an end to our sinning!

There is a great wealth of meaning and truth in the words of Paul, «Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.»

Neville i agree with you Jesus has the power to forgive sin past present and future through the cross when he died his death covered past present and future.If those in the old testament were justified by faith and made righteous then they are covered by the blood of Jesus even though he hadn't died for them yet because there hope was in God.Isn't that what the definition of faith is it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen.The proof is Enoch how could he go to be with God if he was not righteous and only the blood of Jesus is able to do that.

Abraham was justified by faith, but he wasn't born again, baptized into the body of Christ or sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

What this means is that there is not one single person who can be justified by faith alone who will then fail to be glorified.

But if believing results in justification (as Rom 4:4 - 5 and Rom 10:10 a clearly show), then how could calling on the Lord and confessing with your mouth also result in justification since such a person is already justified by faith alone?

«Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.»

Though the various aspects and human developments of this grace - given event may be described in the scriptural terms of faith, hope and love, the event itself in its entirety can also be defined with St. Paul simply as «faith», and it may then be said that we are justified by faith and by faith alone.

As Pope Benedict has pointed out in his book on St Paul, Luther was right on Paul's teaching that we are justified by faith alone, provided this is a faith that works itself out in love (Gal 5:6).

So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.

We are justified by faith.

Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Romans 5:1 states, «Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.»

Everyone who is personally united to Christ, having been justified by faith alone through his atoning death, belongs to his body and by the Spirit is united with every other true believer in Jesus.

Therefore being justify by faith, we have peace with God thru our Lord, Jesus Christ.

And this is the meaning: The righteousness of God which is revealed by the gospel, is a passive righteousness with which the merciful God justifies us by faith, as it is written, «He who through faith is righteous shall live.»

Not exact matches

Pointing to Natural Law to justify the relationship between faith and policy is just the typical circular reasoning used by religious nutbags.

20 million indigenous Native Mexicans died from European brought diseases, (who justifies it by saying they were bringing the «faith»... the Holocaust... the Somalian famine... the African genocides... yeah, there is a god, there really really is, and it is all powerful, just really busy somewhere else.

We understand the statement that «we are justified by grace through faith because of Christ» in terms of the substitutionary atonement and imputed righteousness of Christ, leading to full assurance of eternal salvation; we seek to testify in all circumstances and contexts to this, the historic Protestant understanding of salvation by faith alone (sola fide).

That faith has truncated history to arrive at an immediate authority justified as if by all history.

Christians who want to defend our faith are being duped by the Father of Lies into falling for a story that says Islam is the enemy and therefore anything we do to fight Islam (including posting obvious lies, including inciting hatred for men and women made in God's image) is justified.

They teach that while we are initially saved by faith alone, we are not really justified until we die, and only if you have lived a good life up to that time.

Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith Martin Luther believed that the theology of this text was...

This is wholly consistent with James» statement that «a person is justified by works and Not By Faith Alone» (Js 2:24by works and Not By Faith Alone» (Js 2:24By Faith Alone» (Js 2:24).