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    What's the use of faith alone?

    I don’t think anyone is arguing that one can be justified by works of the law, or that we can be justified by anything we do, besides having faith. I think there’s more argument about what that justification consists of, and whether or not we can compromise and lose that state of justice.
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    Not without your participation, according to His wisdom. Grace, IOW, is resisitible. Faith is both a gift of grace and a human choice: to accept, embrace, express and act upon that gift, daily. Ditto for hope and love. Otherwise Christ's shed blood won't have its intended affect on any given...
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    Yes, and it's equally fallacious to appeal to unqualifed authorities when interpreting Scripture, such as to all the private interpreters that were engendered by the Reformation, often resulting in novel doctrine as if God couldn't keep the basics of the faith straight in His church for the 1500...
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    It's not a stumbling block; it's the understanding of how it works. You're not saved by works of the law, as if pretending to be holy actually made you holy. But you are saved by being holy nonetheless. You're not saved by the mere act of faith, of having faith, alone, but by what faith means...
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    They're soteriological because they're behavioral, according to their own testimony. So is Rom 2:7, Heb 2:14, Gal 5:19-21, Gal 6:7-8, Rev 21:6-8, Rev 22:12-15, etc. Faith means union with God, 'apart from whom we can do nothing'. And that faith, working through love, by the Spirit who indwells...
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    "refraining from sin will get you into heaven". Rom 6:22, Rom 8:12-14 etc I did rethink my theology, BTW-it used to be more of the Reformed variety.
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    Yes, it seems to depend on who's defining the idea, and on whether or not that transformation and its positive effects are 1) necessary, and/or 2) guaranteed to occur for a believer such that they could never refuse or thwart it.
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    Well, the good works would or should align with the "state of the heart" an organ you've referenced already. And God, who prepares works for us in advance, knows what we should be doing with whatever we've been given-with more demanded of those given more (Luke 12:48). So we have guidlelines for...
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    Christian faith was never, never, never meant to separate one's salvation from the necessity of being just and living accordingly, but is, in fact, the authentic means to finally accomplishing that very thing by virtue of union with God- in whatever way and to whatever degree He deems right for...
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    Parallels and divergences, Calvin, Luther, and Saint Augustine

    Ok, but not to everyone who holds the doctrine. Often it's said to merely mean forensically declared to be righteous, by the vicarious appropriation of Christ's righteousness that covers our unrighteousness. If you, however, consider justification to be the true justifying of a person, that the...
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    What's the use of faith alone?

    I didn't say anything about a sacrament per se, only about communion with God, the engrafting of the branch into the Vine. Now, the fact that the Eucharist is considered to be representative of that very union, and of our vital need for it, is all the better. The sacraments serve as theology...
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    Faith without woks explained

    Faith and the justification it results in was never considered by past Christisns to be a means of escape from the obligation for man to be just and walk accordingly. It was, in fact, considered to be the means, the only authentic means- to fulfill that very obligation. 'So, by their fruits you...
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    Parallels and divergences, Calvin, Luther, and Saint Augustine

    Yes, to understand Augustine properly and fully we must realize that, when he's defending against Pelgianism, for example, he's myopically focusing on and emphasizing the essential nature of grace, similar to Paul in his battle against legalism. But Augustine still won't fit the Calvinist mold...
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    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    He definitely knew that His creation would rebel. He definitely knew He wouldn't abandon them.
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    Parallels and divergences, Calvin, Luther, and Saint Augustine

    Maybe you'll be infused into heaven while Claire will be imputed to be there. Forgive me...
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    Parallels and divergences, Calvin, Luther, and Saint Augustine

    Nope, not what it says. Either way, yes, the righteousness of Christ is a gift, but of real righteousness: "not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith." Phil 3:9 Because...
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    Parallels and divergences, Calvin, Luther, and Saint Augustine

    Yes, they were made sinners, and Jesus makes us righteous. Again, Rom 5:17: "For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man...
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    Parallels and divergences, Calvin, Luther, and Saint Augustine

    No, it makes it clear that they became or were made sinners (hamartōloi katestathēsan) because of his trespass. And likewise by Jesus' obedience they will be made righteous. (dikaioi katastathēsontai). and this conforms with Rom 5:17, Rom 6, and the rest of Romans: "For if, by the trespass of...
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    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    You're only speaking of imagined sentiments-not those of anyone on this thread. He suffered and died for all-and yet not all will care.
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    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    If that was the only related passage in Scripture-it could still be argued eitther way but would probably favor your reading. But with other passages and biblical concepts already listed in this thread....you certainly have no open and shut case.
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