Sentences with phrase «justified by faith in»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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).

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.

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...

If a person believes that Jesus died on the cross for their sins, and rose again from the dead, but don't believe that by faith in Jesus they have life that can never be lost, are they justified?

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).

Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence... Faith is not allowed to justify itself by argument.

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.

We have learned that when we focus on the harms caused by religious hostility toward gay people — its destructive role in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans and explaining that being gay is not a lifestyle choice but is how you are born — persons of faith can understand why religion must no longer be misused to justify hostile attitudes and actions toward LGBT people.

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?

Correspondingly, the faith that I am justified by the Cross in spite of my guilt is maintained in solitude: I am justified by my own, and no one else's, faith.

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.

If the article above was written by a grown adult about the existence of Santa Claus, and if that argument was essentially based on asserting Santa Claus» existence based on faith and the popularity of the Santa Claus myth, then anyone would be justified in scorning those beliefs, especially when that argument extends to declaring that recent findings confirm the existence of Santa (after all, children are still receiving Christmas gifts).

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.»

Gal 3:8 — And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, «In you shall all the nations be blessed.»

Kevin: It is an outrage for a fellow Christian to justify their faith by essentially saying it is a safety net... either you believe or you don't... you are only doing yourself and everyone else a disservice by saying that you believe just in case there is a heaven you want to make sure you get in.

perverts, our atheists, all one or two of them, who don't work and have no loved ones, nothing to do and are destroyed by bitterness, love to trash various denominations and believers expecting to justify their faith in nogods.

Nor are we helped by being told that God sacrificed Jesus to prove that God is just and that God justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Abraham was justified by putting his trust in God, [3] and our salvation comes through «faith in Jesus Christ».

For there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith.

The seven controverted areas taken up by the declaration are 1) sin and human passivity in receiving justification; 2) interior renewal, that is, the way God not only declares persons justified but also makes them righteous, independent of human cooperation; 3) justification by faith alone; 4) the justified person as sinner; 5) law and gospel; 6) the assurance of salvation; and 7) the good works of the justified person.

This hope for the Good Society was justified in liberal theology both by its ultimate faith in God and by what it took to be experiences of real victory over evil.

This is not the place to show that this concept of freedom either exists explicitly in the creed of the Church or is implied by the teaching of Christianity, that free faith justifies, that salvation must be received from God in freedom and that the eternity of salvation is not an indefinite continuation of time but must be understood as the final result of history itself which is produced by freedom.

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....

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.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

It is because «a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ» (Gal.

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.

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!

What I am arguing in this post is that while justification by faith alone is true, if this is as far as a person goes, while they may be justified, they have not understood the gospel.

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.

In my Luther the familiar theological topics make an appearance: justification by grace through faith (which is linked with one of his favorite images, that of a «joyful exchange» of identities with Christ); the forgiveness of sins; the authority of the Word; the human as «sinner and at the same time justified.»

We are justified by grace along through faith alone in Christ alone.

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.

I think it is a matter of sheer faith in God, and I find that faith justified for me by the experience of those first Christians and by the continuing experience of the Church that relationship with God through Jesus survived his death.

We are justified only by faith in this Jesus, he insists.

If we already presuppose, then, that the theistic religious language employed by the Christian witness in authorizing faith in God's love as our authentic self - understanding can be metaphysically justified, we can say — as I, in fact, have already been saying — that ultimate reality includes not only the self and others but also the encompassing whole of reality that theists refer to when they use the name «God.»

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.

Romans 3:23 - 25 says, «for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; (AKJV).»

So then the «all that have sinned and fall short of the glory of God» can be justified by Gods grace through faith in Jesus.

James never even hinted that faith was expressed in, or a man justified by, what Paul called works of the Law.

Metz is convinced that faith can not accept this relativization, and accordingly it is an essential task of fundamental theology... to defend, justify or give an account of the authenticity of religion, in opposition to those systems that claim to be meta - theories of theology».6 It can not do this by developing a still more comprehensive overview.

Catholics believe that we are justified — going from unrighteous to righteous in God's sight — by grace through faith, and no works whatsoever are involved in this.

By faith in this love we are justified.

Yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in 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.

God's Word says that «by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight;» we are justified to God as a gift by grace through faith in Jesus.

The basic principle of all theology, but one most forcefully brought to expression in this century by Karl Barth, is this: that in Christian faith we have to do with the gracious God whose one and supreme intention is to justify, save and redeem humanity not on the basis of a discrimination between better and worse persons but solely on the basis of God's own gracious election.