Things New and Old: The popular 5-solas

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The popular 5-solas

The popular 5 solas

What do they mean to you?

I understand like this - very briefly.

Scriptures alone:

This declares the inspired Scriptures as the only infallible and inerrant source of all knowledge of God, and His works of creation, redemption, and providence, and the duty man owe to Him.

Grace alone:

This declares the manner in which God, through His Spirit, bestows the eternal salvation, which He had purposed for His elect and which Christ has accomplished for the same on the cross, to each elect personally.

Faith alone:

This declares the manner in which God's children - i.e. those elect whom God has freely by His grace justified, regenerated and adopted and bestowed the Spirit of adoption to dwell in them - can experience the salvation that has been freely bestowed upon them by God's grace. "The just shall live by faith"; it's not "by faith, the condemned shall be justified." The former is the Bible truth, the latter a lie from the pit of hell.

Christ alone:

This declares that Jesus Christ is the basis and ground of the eternal salvation of His people. It is by His righteousness (through his perfect obedience to the laws of God) that God freely justifies condemned sinners, and by His substitutionary death that God freely forgive their sins.

Glory to God alone:

This declares that since God alone purposed our eternal redemption for His elect, and Christ alone accomplished the same for all given to Him, and the Spirit of God and of Christ alone applies that redemption to each elect personally at God's own appointed and approved time when they are dead in trespasses and sin, glory indeed belong to God alone.

God alone brought each of them into BEING as His children, perfectly fitted for eternal glory; He ordained the ministry for the WELLBEING of His children.

God alone, in Christ and through His own Spirit, has ordained the gospel ministry for the temporal good of those whom He has sovereignly and freely saved. Christ alone gives His own church pastors and teachers to minister to His redeemed

So, glory to God alone, yes and indeed. Amen, and Amen.

Thanks for allowing me to speak.

Your turn. No shibboleth permitted.