A leading theologian explains the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone and urges fellow evangelicals to embrace this classic Protestant teaching.R. C. Sproul
Sin is a riddle, a mystery, a reality that eludes definition and comprehension. Perhaps we most often think of sin as wrongdoing or transgression of God's law. Sin includes a failure to do what is right. But sin also offends people; it is violence and lovelessness toward other people,...
The Protestant, regarding the doctrine of justification by faith as fundamental, said the Church is approached through it; the Romanist, still adhering to the Church as the fountain of spiritual life, affirmed that justification is obtained through the Church. Protestants assert that the Church ...
By our modern definition of slavery, we cannot comprehend the concept of a person being owned by another person without that owned person not being a slave. On one side of this debate about the Biblical treatment of wives we have Christians who claim that there is absolutely no similarity at...
In past generations, there have been many who have resisted the moving of the Holy Spirit. In the middle ages, for example, there was a fresh wind of the Spirit to restore the truth ofJustification by Faith.This moving of the Holy Spirit resulted in a large community of evangelical Believe...
of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, ancestors for three of the races of mankind and to account in some degree for their historic relations; and third, by its censure of Canaan, it offers a veiled justification for the later Israelite conquest and subjugation of the Canaanites....
Even before we go to Piper, I want to compare a definition of complementarianism to the definition of domestic abuse at the start: “Complementarianism holds that “God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and human personhood, butdifferent and complementary in function wi...
Not a word of justification by faith; not a word of the gracious influence of the Spirit in renewing and cleansing the heart; not a word responding to any of those signal passages of Scripture which make the gospel 'glad tidings' to guilty man. Drop a very few phrases borrowed from the...
Conversion is the sort of phenomenon that every person seems intuitively to understand, and yet an intuitive definition eludes us all. This applies as much to the study of religious conversion in general as it does to the study of conversion in the ancient world. The study of conversion by ...
Subject: Paul’s Definition of the Gospel Date: Sunday Morning – April 23 , 2000 (The Audio is dated 2/2/2014 ) Tape # V-79a Reading: Romans 1:1-17 Introduction: Should you go to the street corner of any city in this country and ask those who passed by, or stand upon the do...