Category: Soteriology
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Not By Faith Alone
Justification For what saith the Scripture that Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him as righteousness (dikaiosunen). Romans 4, 3 Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified (dikaiousthai) by faith without the deeds of the law. Romans 3, 23 Was not Abraham our father justified (edikaiosthe) by works when he had offered…
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Put On the New Self
Justification & Sanctification Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew the right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit. Psalm 50, 12-14 You should put away…
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You Are Sanctified, You Are Justified
Justification & Sanctification And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6, 11 Protestants of the classical reformed persuasion mistakenly think Catholics have the wrong idea of what it…
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You Have Been Saved
Salvation Even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Jesus from the dead. It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved. Ephesians 2, 5 St. Paul perceived salvation as embracing the three aspects of time: past, present, and future. In the original Greek, the…
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