Things New and Old: Sola Fidei is a Fable

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, November 22, 2022

Sola Fidei is a Fable

November 22, 2019

#Sola_Fidei_is_a_Fable

Sola Fidei - the popular Protestant idea that the justification of a sinner before God is by faith alone - is a fable, a fiction; common sense will affirm this charge.

Isaiah 1:18a KJV — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD." The LORD assumes that we, His redeemed people, are capable of reasoning.

1. Sola Fidei necessarily presupposes that a sinner who is not yet justified by God is capable of believing in order to be justified by God.

- Now, a man not yet justified by God is still a man in his native state of condemnation and death. How could a man in that state discern and believe in Christ Jesus?

- The sola fideists will retort, "but he is already regenerated by the Holy Spirit, i.e. already born of God!" They have just invented another fable, that those to whom God has not applied personally the righteousness of Christ can be regenerated, is born by the Spirit of God!

Righteousness is a prerequisite of life; sin brought condemnation and death; righteousness secures justification and life.

- Romans 5:18 KJV — "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation [of death]; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE."

- No righteousness, no justification; no justification, no life; no life, faith is IMPOSSIBLE. Sola fidei is a fiction!

- It's as basic as that but so many are addicted to the shibboleth of sola fidei.

John Gill, a non-Protestant Baptist theologian, widely respected by his contemporaries, and probably the greatest theologian that ever graced the Christian church, put it plainly like this:

"The reason why any are justified is not because they have faith; but the reason why they have faith is because they are justified."

This is antithetical to sola fideism.