Justification by Faith
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- Justification by Faith
- Background info
- The word 'justification' is the translation of a Greek world that has legal connotations.
- In the thinking of Paul and Martin Luther, 'to be justified' is to be counted by God as rightous and thus able to have a relationship with God.
- Its an 'eschatolog-ical' term.
- Thus, its concerned with the ultimate fate of humanity.
- Eschatolog-ical = a term referring to events at the end of time.
- Justification by faith in the thinking of Paul
- The most important teaching on this concept is found in Paul's letter to the Church in Rome.
- Before this conversation, Paul believed that he had to earn a good relationship w/ God via keeping Jewish law.
- However, he was continually furstrated by his inability to do so, saying the more he tried the more he failed.
- "I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" -Romans 7:18-19.
- However, he was continually furstrated by his inability to do so, saying the more he tried the more he failed.
- Before this conversation, Paul believed that he had to earn a good relationship w/ God via keeping Jewish law.
- Due to original sin, its impossible for humans to earn a good relationship with God.
- Original sin = the flawed and sinful nature possessed by all humanity.
- Only God's grace makes this possible.
- Humans are invited to respond to God's offer of salvation and eternal life with faith.
- It's not faith that justifies, but rather God justifiying them.
- The faith of the believer is simple the responce to the gift of grace.
- The believer is then at peace with God and is able to live a life pleasing to God.
- But this is out of a new relationship with God, not a way of earning that relationship.
- This has always been the case, even for those before Jesus like Abraham.
- "Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteous" - Genesis 15:6
- 'Sola Fide'
- Latin term meaning 'by faith alone'.
- The most important teaching on this concept is found in Paul's letter to the Church in Rome.
- Justification by faith in the thinking of Martin Luther
- Luther set the reformation in motion in 1517, by attacking the corruption in much of the medieval Catholic Church.
- He set out a simpler religion that was based on scripture and the personal faith of the individual believer.
- Doctrine of Sola Scriptura.
- He taught that faith of the believer is passive.
- Justification comes by what God achieves through the atoning death of Jesus.
- For Luther, good conduct was the expression of a person's faith, but it had no saving value whatsoever.
- "being consecrated by his faith, does good works, but he is not by these works made... more of a Christian."
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