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...
Indeed, they essentially ignored those people that could offer nothing more than scriptures or philosophical reasoning and seemed pretty uninterested in the explanation or justification for those things that they actually did accept as binding upon them. Whatever we might call this approach to the ...
by the advice of James and John to Jesus to call down fire on an inhospitable Samaritan village. The reported reply of Jesus, “Ye know not what spirit you are of,” is the final comment on such use of power. Now, after we have made the most of the miracles recorded of Jesus, ...
[JACOBUS, Notes, p. 267. 1. Abram had no righteousness for justification. 2. Faith is not imputed to him as a work, as a meritorious ground of justification, but only as instrumental, laying hold on a perfect righteousness. 3. The law could not claim any other than a perfect righteousn...
”As is indicated by theaorist (δικαιωθῆναι), theauthor hadapunctual event or punctual events in mind and did notmean justification in the Pauline sense, seeC. Burchard,Der dreizehnte Zeuge: Traditions-und kompositionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu Lukas’Darstellung der Frühzeit...
that the mystery of the Gospel is made manifest by the preaching of the apostles being witnessed to by the law and prophets in all its doctrines; particularly justification by Christ's righteousness, remission of sins through his blood, and salvation by his sufferings and death; that this shoul...
Surely Paul would have condemned it just has he condemned the teachings of the pro-circumcision party. There are many aspects to our salvation that Paul highlights in his letters. In Romans we see justification, in Corinthians we see the work of the ...