Sentences with phrase «message about justification»

Without the truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.

Not exact matches

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

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.

God reckoned Abraham righteous because he believed that message, but the message itself isn't about justification.

I've talked about serious problems with the title I'm playing, and after publication of the article recieved messages about how I'd judged the game unfairly simply because these issues will fixed and I shouldn't use them as a justification for my view of the title in question.