#Justification by faith

[theexodvs]

Before dating someone who claims to be a Christian, you need to know how they respond to all of the following questions.

1. Is Jesus the uncreated God? 2. Are Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit three coeternal persons? 3. Is Jesus fully divine and fully human? 4. Are all people born in a state of sin, inherited from Adam and Eve due to their transgression? 5. Are believers justified through faith, by the free grace of God? 6. Is the institution of marriage a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, dissoluble only through death, abandonment, or adultery? 7. Is sexual intercourse a practice strictly for married couples?

All of these questions are either first-order matters of doctrine or would indicate how a dating relationship in particular would end up. In addition, there are questions I would ask about second- and third-order matters (limited atonement, spiritual gifts, infant baptism, etc). What additional questions you would ask would depend on your Biblical hermeneutic and how closely you would want a partner to agree, but I have made the mistake of not gauging previous partners’ doctrine.

#christian dating #christian marriage #christian relationships #deity of christ #trinity #hypostatic union #god in three persons blessed trinity #fully god and fully man #Original Sin #total depravity #adam's curse #eve's curse #justificaton #justification by faith #doctrinal triage #hermeneutics

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

by Oswald Chambers | I am not saved by believing— I simply realize I am saved by believing. And it is not repentance that saves me— repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus. The danger here is putting the emphasis on the effect, instead of on the cause. Is it my obedience, consecration, and dedication that...

#My Utmost For His Highest #Oswald Chambers #Justification by Faith #devotional #Romans 5:10 #October 28 #2022 #utmost.org

[catenaaurea]

#not catechism #justification by faith

[thinkingonscripture]

Justified in God's Sight

At the moment of faith in Christ, God’s righteousness is gifted to the believer (Rom 5:17; cf. 2 Cor 5:21; Phil 3:9), and he is at once made right with God and declared just in His sight. Divine justification is not by human works at all, “for there is none righteous, not even one” (Rom 3:10), “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). Rather, Paul reveals we are…

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[kdmiller55]

Faith Alone

7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. – Galatians 3:7-9 ESV In his defense of justification by faith alone in…

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#Abraham #Christ #Christ alone #circumcision #faith #Galatians #Galatians 3 #Gentiles #godliness #holiness #Jesus #Jews #justification by faith #justified #Mosaic law #salvation #works #works righteousness

[buggie-hagen]

Justification by faith alone depends entirely on baptism. God in majesty often contradicts himself, but in his absolving word-in-things he "cannot contradict himself." ~Steven Paulson, Luther's Outlaw God, vol. 3: Sacraments and God's Attack on the Promise, 205.

#baptism #justification by faith

[battleforgodstruth]

To Whom Christ Will Be of No Benefit - Pastor Patrick Hines Podcast

To Whom Christ Will Be of No Benefit – Pastor Patrick Hines Podcast

To Whom Christ Will Be of No Benefit – Pastor Patrick Hines Podcast Galatians 5 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole…

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#Christian #Christian faith #Christianity #faith #faith defined #God #Jesus Christ #Justification by faith #pastor #preacher #salvation #SAVED BY FAITH #Saving Faith #sermons on faith #what does faith mean #what is faith

[biblebloodhound]

A Parable On Being Right with God (Luke 18:9-14)

We all are tempted with the seduction of self-justification.

The Tax Collector and the Pharisee by Peter Gallen To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax…

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#adam and eve #christ&039;s parables #christ&039;s teaching #christian faith #christian life #christian spirituality #christianity #division #faith #god&039;s grace #god&039;s mercy #good and bad #gospel of luke #humility #jesus christ #justification #justification by faith #luke 18 #mercy #parable #parables #pride #right and wrong #righteousness #self-justification #separation #sin #sinner #the fall

[steviebee77]

The Law, Sin Nature, and Moral Choices

The Law, Sin Nature, and Moral Choices

THE APOSTLE PAUL TELLS us that the Law is binding only on those who are yet alive. Paul chose a simple illustration for this: a married woman is bound to her husband by the Law so long as he is alive. Accordingly, if her husband dies, she is released from him by the law of marriage. If she marries while her husband is still alive, she is guilty of adultery. From a legal and secular position, we…

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#Justification by Faith #Melchizeded #Moral Choices #Righteousness of Christ #Romans 7 #Sin Nature #The Law #Walking by the Spirit #Walking in the Flesh

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

#this is one of the reasons why #although i would kill antis in real life if i could #i also don't trust anyone who identifies as 'pro-ship' #it's just an excuse to shut down legitimate ethical questions and engaging in honest self-reflective media consumption and critique #art doesn't exist in a vacuum #it's a flat impossibility for it not to inform nor be informed by real world politics and attitudes #because that's what it means to be created by human hands #we can't even make machine learning thats not just human bias fed into an algorithm #if the way we interact with art truly didn't influence anything then there would be no value in it #just because antis have weaponized those points in the most bad faith ways possible #doesn't mean you can ignore them in good faith #anyway fandom stans villains because society loves to defend and protect abusers #it's not because you get the chance to be free and empathetic and indulge in your darkness and what not #it's just people's normal levels of attachment to shitty people with an added layer of justification for it #this blog is for boring do-gooder enjoyers only #lol #knee of huss #fandom wank #media critique #pop culture #fandom discourse

[chuckyray]

the walten files fans try not to demonize people with addictions, understand these characters are meant to be complex, and learn to grasp the concept of nuance + remorse + grief and fear causing people to make poor choices challenge: impossible

#every time i open that tag i am faced with the most dogshit media literacy and bad faith interpretation of canon the world has ever seen #felix did not KILL the kids. his irresponsible actions lead to their deaths yes but you people talk about him as if #he broke their necks with his bare hands intentionally. he loved them. he was their uncle hed seen them grow up since they were born. #he was in such shock and grief he couldn't make rational choices. did you people not watch guilty or hear his agonizing screams in bunnyfarm #and to top it off people act like this wasnt an accident. how him being an alcoholic and dui causing this ACCIDENT is justification enough #to act as if he deserves to be treated like a murderer. i believe him living with that grief and suffering and losing everyone he ever had #is punishment enough lol. hes sick. hes mentally ill. and we dont even know anything else regarding how or if hes involved in shit #or how its all impacting him. you people just hate people with addictions. #so called progressive people when a mentally ill sick man makes poor choices because hes mentally ill and sick 😡😡😡😡 #anyway. rant over. #twf #the walten files #felix kranken

[seatokki]

btw zionists please dnf/dni I do not have time for you 😭

#I've been followed by a couple accounts over the last few days with some pretty obvious zionist views #and I can't tell if some accounts following me are purposely bait or not #anyways I will just block you if you follow me but I also wanted to say it clearly in a post 👍 #my family is jewish I was a raised jewish and will always have a very deep love for judaism #but I have never been a zionist and it makes me sick seeing what israel does using our faith and our history as justification #that's it I think bye

[g1deonthefirst]

truly if you think tlt is positive about or even neutral on christianity (and catholicism specifically) i think you need to go back and reread tbh. because in the very first book we learn that this is a series where two people murder 200 children that were placed in their care because they believe their religion justifies or even compels it. the real-life parallels are almost too on the nose.

#this is a series where the military uses religion as a justification to conquer and literally murder planets and expel their populations! #this is a series where the mc of the 2nd book spends the entire book being groomed and manipulated bc of her faith! #this is a series where the society's version of gender roles are strictly enforced by its religion! #where religion makes the mc of the first book believe that her only value is in self sacrifice! #biting. everyone go read sophelstien's essay. #tlt

[justarandomlambblog]

Hehehe

#cult of the lamb #sketch #I like to think things were very different in the height of the old faith #and what we see in current day is at the tail end of its decline (religious and cultural) #maybe bc of Narinder’s past vessels causing problems #and the bishops we see now are a result of said decline/corruption #(and also bc of their injuries that never healed) #but anyway I want to put the bishops in sophisticated/elegant outfits so this is my justification #also trying to draw Narinder in a different way bc the way I was drawing him before was so borinnggg #heket pls…. pls look good for one second. pls you were so nice to me the other night-

[secondsundering]

IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME

#puck talk #I KNOW I'M SO LATE BUT IDC #RHE DLC ISN'T OUT YET SOOOO #i can bask in this before they add mode trophies #as justification i am sooo bad at finishing playthroughs and also at radabeast lol so i was literally hardstuck #i could have just done a third quick runthrough on my same faith build but i'm INSANE so #i did not do that #ANYWAY!!!!!

[buggie-hagen]

Saving is not rewarding someone with a trophy. As Paul constantly reminds us, we are saved by faith--alone--without any works. ~Steven Paulson, Luther's Outlaw God, vol. 3: Sacraments and God's Attack on the Promise, 199.

#justification by faith