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.

Monday, January 2, 2023

"The just shall live by faith" - wrested

Romans 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God 
revealed from faith to faith: as it is written,
The just shall live by faith.

Galatians 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law
 in the sight of God, it is evident:
for, The just shall live by faith.

Hebrews 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith:
but if any man draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Habakuk 2:4
Behold, his soul which is lifted up
 is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith.

 

August 14, 2019

#Lie_of_SolaFidei

"The just shall live by faith."

This is one of the most abused passages of the Holy Scriptures.

"The just shall live by faith" is a statement about the just. Who are the just? The just are those already freely justified by God; that's the only way a guilty condemned man can be just before God. This is elementary.

What does the statement declare about the just? Those already freely justified by God shall live by faith in the Son of God, not trusting in the observations of the ceremonial laws. Abraham was marshalled as the irrefutable evidence and classic illustration of this truth. Gen 15:1-6.

"The just shall live by faith" is not how the unjust shall be justified, i.e. by their believing, as popularly advanced by the sola fideists' "justification by faith alone." They have completely perverted the truth of justification by God's free grace.

It is the justified that are able to believe; it is not the unjustified - those still under condemnation - who believe in order to be justified by God. That's like saying the dead shall live by breathing!

The justification of the condemned is FREELY by the grace of God, based solely upon the faith of Christ, i.e. the faithfulness of Christ in His work of redemption.

Romans 3
21 ¶But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus...

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