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Justification is a legal declaration from God that you are innocent of sin. Instead, you are made right before Him. God the judge grants you freedom instead of a death sentence — even though your actions deserve that death sentence. But there is a condition to this freedom that we must explore.
Jun 28, 2023 · As defined in the Baker's Biblical Dictionary, Justification is the declaring of a person to be just or righteous. It is a legal term signifying acquittal, a fact that makes it unpalatable to many in our day. We tend to distrust legalism and thus we dismiss anything that savors of a legalistic approach.
- Dr. Josh Moody
Mar 23, 2022 · Several important facts about justification are to be noted: • Justification comes apart from the law; that is, we cannot earn justification through rule-keeping or our own good works. • Justification is made possible in the sacrificial death of Christ; it is based on the shed blood of Christ.
- Justification by Faith Is A Whole-Bible Doctrine.
- Justification by Faith Is Articulated Most Clearly by The Apostle Paul.
- Justification by Faith Affirms That Good Works Necessarily Follow from Faith.
- Justification by Faith Is A Protestant Doctrine.
- Justification by Faith Is An Ancient Christian Doctrine.
- Justification by Faith Is An Embattled Doctrine.
- Justification by Faith Brings Glory to God.
Some Christians may be surprised to learn that the doctrine of justification by faith is not only found in the New Testament but in the Old Testament. Genesis tells us that Abraham, in response to God’s promise, “believed the LORD, and it was counted to him as righteousness” (Gen. 15:6). Job sought to justify himself before God and in the end renou...
Most agree that the doctrine of justification by faith is seen most clearly in Paul’s letters, and especially in his letters to the Romans and Galatians. Paul sums up the point of his letter to the Romans in Romans 1:17: “For in it [the gospel] the righteousness of God is revealed by faith to faith, as it is written, ‘The righteousness shall live b...
The doctrine of justification by faith excludes our works of obedience to the law as a means or cause of our justification before God. But it also affirms that acts of love and good works necessarily follow from our faith as the fruit of our faith. For example, Paul teaches that “in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for an...
The doctrine of justification by faith as we think of it today was formulated by Protestant theologians at the time of the Reformation. One thinks immediately of the formula “justification by faith alone.” This is a way of capturing the Bible’s teaching that we cannot be justified before God by our own righteous obedience to the law but only by our...
The formal articulation of the doctrine of justification by faith stems from the Reformation of the western church beginning in the sixteenth century. But the doctrine of justification by faith had been taught and experienced by Christians long before the Reformation. We have already seen this in the Bible, but we also read of this doctrine in the ...
It seems that the doctrine justification by faith often finds itself in the midst of controversy. Paul speaks of it in his conflict with false teachers who were giving the Galatians a hard time about not being circumcised. And Protestant theologians formally articulated it in their attempt to reform the Western church. We could say then it is a “po...
There is something about justification by faith that gives particular glory to God. Paul says this of Abraham’s faith: “No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised” (Rom. 4:20–21). The promise of God in the gospel is t...
The Nature of Justification. Justification makes a belief more likely to be true by providing reasons in favor of the truth of the belief. A natural way to think of justification is that it provides logical support. Logic is the study of reasoning, so logical support is strong reasoning.
Dec 12, 2018 · Most basically, the view that I am defending here is that justification is simply “the gift of righteousness” in contrast with the righteousness by which God condemns and the righteousness that one may acquire by his or her deeds. (285) Read on for a deeper understanding of what justification really means.
Jun 6, 2023 · Counted as Righteous. Paul continues to explain his view of works in Romans 4:4–5. “Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.”