Tarheel Covenant Blog

"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 ...

"Because He is the covenantal head of elect believers, He [Jesus] may be and is their righteousness with God by faith alone in Him. Bec...

"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...

"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...

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