Imperishable Inheritance

While Paul expounds numer­ous times on this issue, I believe the con­tent and back­ground of Gala­tians along with Romans 4 most ade­quately clar­i­fies Paul’s teach­ing on jus­ti­fi­ca­tion by faith alone. The very heresy that Paul defended the Gospel against in Gala­tians was the same one that the reform­ers defended against Catholic dogma and today we stand up to doc­trines such as bap­tismal regeneration. Gala­tians was the first of Paul’s epis­tles. He writes out of an urgent spirit to encour­age the (read more...)

It’s inter­est­ing that God’s Son, God incar­nate amongst men, crit­i­cized all those around Him who had lit­tle or no faith. He called the reli­gious author­i­ties hyp­ocrites, because they didn’t fol­low the very Law that they sought jus­ti­fi­ca­tion through. They also received crit­i­cism for their blind­ness to the very thing that would jus­tify them’faith alone. It’s inter­est­ing that the first time in the New Tes­ta­ment that Jesus praises one’s faith He does so to a Gen­tile. A Roman Cen­tu­rion came to (read more...)

In the 16th cen­tury there were a few coura­geous believ­ers that stood up against the Catholic Church and their many abuses. The ‘five solas’ were the call­ing cry for all those who wanted to return to Bib­li­cal truth. One of those solas was sola fide which is Latin for ‘faith alone.’ This was the doc­trine of jus­ti­fi­ca­tion by faith alone that those reform­ers received per­se­cu­tion for, and the Catholic church hated them because they opposed their doctrine. The Catholic (read more...)