Things New and Old: The Context of Justification by faith alone

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.

Saturday, December 21, 2019

The Context of Justification by faith alone

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The CONTEXT of "justification by faith alone" is how a man, ALREADY freely justified by the grace of God, experiences the blessedness of his justified state; is it by faith in Christ alone, or by keeping the ceremonial laws, or both?

That's the question; it WASN'T how a condemned is justified by God, the righteous Judge. There is ONLY ONE SOLITARY answer to this question - Romans 3:24 KJV — "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."

God is the JUSTIFIER of the condemned; freely by grace is the METHOD of justifying the condemned; through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus is the ALONE BASIS of justifying the condemned.

STOP barking up the wrong trees, doggies!

Have you understood? In hermeneutics, the first three principal rules are:

1. Context

2. Context

3. Context.

Ignoring these rules, the popular justification by faith alone had been turned into a pernicious heresy.

2Peter 2:

1¶But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.