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" Therefore, remember that, at one time, you Gentiles in the flesh, called the 'uncircumcision' by what is called the 'circ...

In the Reformation, the Reformers developed a systematic formulation that delineated the distinction of the biblical Christian faith from th...

I have had discussions with both Mormons and Catholics about Romans 3:28: " For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from the w...

"Be as sensible of your deformity and unworthiness as you can, and walk humbly under the sense of it. But let it not slacken your pace ...

One of the consistent errors that mark cults is their perversion of salvation to some form of works righteousness. This is true of the large...

"There will be degrees of the glory of eternal life and of the blessedness of perfected salvation. These degrees of bliss and glory wil...

"The righteousness imputed in justification is a gift - a free gift. The basis of justification is a gift: the lifelong obedience and ...

"To Jesus Christ, to His account, as the one now responsible for the sins of those in whose stead He died, God imputed our sins. Althou...

"The truth of justification by faith alone is contrary to depraved human nature, which always supposes and insists that the way to be r...

Orthodox Protestants properly state that justification is by faith alone, without regard to works. That statement is true, and the only way ...

" The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousn...

When I am dealing with members of Pelagian sects, such as Mormons and Catholics, on the issue of justification by faith alone, some of them ...

The primary issue of controversy between the Reformers of the Sixteenth Century and the Roman Catholic Church was the question of justificat...

"In teaching justification by faith alone , Calvin and the Reformed creeds, like Luther before them, are biblical. Not only does the Bi...

"The truth is that the faith by which alone the elect sinner is justified is a knowing and trusting that renounce works and working fo...

"The Papists will well-enough confess that we be justified by faith, howbeit they add that it is but partly . But that gloss marreth al...

" What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? " (1Cor. 4:7). ...

 "Christ, and Christ alone, is the source of righteousness, that is, the righteousness that we need and becomes ours by God's act o...

  "Faith is said to justify because it is the instrument by which we receive Christ, in whom righteousness is communicated to us. When ...

 "Faith - true faith - always has an object, and this object is the crucified and risen Christ, as revealed in the Gospel. Thus, as the...