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Do you believe that justification is by faith alone? Please defend your vote with a comment. Created: 10/23/2007 | Last Vote: 44 hours ago | Comment: 8 days ago

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11/16/09 7:10 AM John Yurich USA  | USA    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Yes I believe that justification is by faith alone in Jesus. Only someone who is mentally deranged, insane and psychotic would not believe that justification is by faith alone in Jesus. 11/15/09 6:28 PM John UK  | Wales    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments God imputeth righteousness without works This is one of the great and gracious mysteries of revelation. Man has no R of his own. The Lord Jesus comes into our world and produces one. The R of Jesus is infinitely meritorious. He wrought it out in our nature, as our Substitute. It was accepted for us and is placed to our account. Before we have done one good work, altogether irrespective of good works, the moment we believe, God places the R of Jesus to our account. It is ours, ours by free gift; as much ours as if we had wrought it ourselves. It is in this that we are justified. In this we are truly righteous; therefore we are accepted of God, and no charge lies against us in the book of God. All is met; all is answered. The just God acquits us from all charges, pronounces us righteous, declares us to be free from all condemnation. Thus, "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." Beloved, when Satan tempts you, when fears distress you, when your past conduct generates despondency, when the claims of the law disturb you, endeavour to exercise faith in this glorious fact that God imputes R without works. Jesus, how glorious is thy grace When in thy name we trust Our faith receives a righteousness Which makes the sinner just. JS Rom 4 11/13/09 1:14 PM Alan H  | Washington State    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments For those interested in this vital doctrine, here is a book giving a sound Scriptural and Historical examination of the subject. It seems to be a doctrine which is overlooked by many preachers and distorted by others these days and yet it is so fundamental to Christianity. You can't have genuine Christianity without "justification by faith alone" and the church will quickly crumble under the burden of any other system of theology. When this doctrine is abandoned apostasy is the result. I think perhaps the poor state of the churches within our country are the direct result of the ignorance of this doctrine more than any other thing. The woman is always easy prey to the serpent when either confusion or indifference concerning the absolutes of truth are present. THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION An Outline of its History in the Church and of its Exposition from Scripture - JAMES BUCHANAN 10/26/09 6:24 AM ORS  | Alaska    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments We are justified by Christ's blood and death. God then imputes to us the righteousness of Christ. He declares us not guilty, as though sin had not been committed. 7/31/09 10:04 AM Biblicist    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments j3 wrote: If you mean justified by God-given faith alone, through God-given grace alone, then I say AMEN. Faith is a result of my Justification; faith is a apart of my santification, what God is doing in me. Faith is not the reason I get saved, but the result of me being saved by God. If salvation is by grace "through faith" , then salvation must be received by faith. IOW faith preceeds (or must exist to receive) salvation, and is very much related to your "justification"!! 7/29/09 9:34 PM j3    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments If you mean justified by God-given faith alone, through God-given grace alone, then I say AMEN. Faith is a result of my Justification; faith is a apart of my santification, what God is doing in me. Faith is not the reason I get saved, but the result of me being saved by God. 3/28/09 6:56 PM Faithful Remnant    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments By faith alone. I cannot of my own strength be positionally righteous or transformed unto righteous works. This is only by the power of God through faith in His word. I believe we are justified by faith and from this faith flow good works. 3/21/09 1:14 AM jennifer Buck  | Jennifer Buck    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments I find no good thing in me that could remotely begin to justify me before an infinitely just and holy God. Only faith (that is the gift of God). 2/1/09 5:42 PM DJC49  | Florida    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Mike wrote: One word: Yes. It's the same life Solomon was talking about. Thank you so much Mike! 2/1/09 5:36 PM Mike  | New York    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments DJC49 wrote: Mike | New York make it EASY on me, would you? Did you mean natural, God-given, birthed from mom, biological life or not. A ONE word answer would suffice. Thanks. One word: Yes. It's the same life Solomon was talking about. 2/1/09 4:54 PM DJC49  | Florida    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Mike | New York make it EASY on me, would you? Did you mean natural, God-given, birthed from mom, biological life or not. A ONE word answer would suffice. Thanks. 2/1/09 4:49 PM Mike  | New York    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments DJC49 wrote: Mike | New York I need you to clarify something here, if you would. At the time that you wrote: "He gave me life." To what were you referring? I assumed that it was your natural, God-given, biological life. Did I assume correctly? I came to my conclusion because in your next post on this thread (1/31/09 11:57 AM) you wrote: "Proverbs 4:10 'Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.' MORE YEARS that should be hated, I suppose?" I'll repost what I later wrote to Apercu, which I hope will clarify: As you have well said, "compared to heaven." And that is what is meant by hating your life. By comparison we "hate" our lives. But this does not mean the contemptuous, disdainful hatred which might be erroneously supposed. We are commanded to love our wives. That exists in THIS life. We are commanded to love our brothers, also part of this life. Are we to hate life, but love that which God has given that makes it life? We need to keep in mind what is meant by hating our lives. Proverbs 3:2 "For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee." If we were to truly hate our life, you'd have to wonder why Solomon thought these were good things. 2/1/09 4:10 PM DJC49  | Florida    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Mike | New York wrote: He gave me life. Why should I hate it? Mike | New York I need you to clarify something here, if you would. At the time that you wrote: "He gave me life." To what were you referring? I assumed that it was your natural, God-given, biological life. Did I assume correctly? I came to my conclusion because in your next post on this thread (1/31/09 11:57 AM) you wrote: "Proverbs 4:10 'Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.' MORE YEARS that should be hated, I suppose?" _____ I really need to understand what you honestly MEANT by "He gave me life." (email me with your answer if you so desire) 1/31/09 9:52 PM Michael Hranek  | Endicott, New York    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments DJC49 wrote: Please consider the CONTEXT DJC49 No. It is you who should go back and consider the CONTEXT. APERCU maligned Mike from NY that he didn't hate the life that God had given him. Mike NY wrote "He gave me life. Why should I hate it?" Dear DJC49 this is the CONTEXT not an eisigesis of John 12:25. BTW it is APERCU's version whatever it may be of Calvinism that is shameful or did you conviently overlook his statement to Mike from NY implying that Mike needed to be a Calvinist to have eternal life? Apercu wrote: "Now Mike you want to live eternally don't you? OK Become a Calvinist then." DJC49, it this the kind of Calvinism that you believe in that one must be a Calvinist to live eternally? I will ask you the same question I asked him. "What is the matter isn't faith in Jesus Christ sufficient for you?" No, I am far from being an expert in calling people devils but thanks to Calvinists such as yourself and Apercu and others (thankfully not all Calvinists come across with the same attitudes and what I would call dictates) I have realized that with some they seemingly care less if one is genuinely born again and loves Christ but that they would be a proselyte of their version of WCF 5 Point Calvinism. 1/31/09 5:23 PM Mike  | New York    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Apercu wrote: The Elect don't love their life in the world, because they are given insight into [a] How evil they are in the flesh. [b] How evil a place this is compared to heaven. [c] In His Light they see light. Psa 36. As you have well said, "compared to heaven." And that is what is meant by hating your life. By comparison we "hate" our lives. But this does not mean the contemptuous, disdainful hatred which might be erroneously supposed. We are commanded to love our wives. That exists in THIS life. We are commanded to love our brothers, also part of this life. Are we to hate life, but love that which God has given that makes it life? We need to keep in mind what is meant by hating our lives. Proverbs 3:2 "For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee." If we were to truly hate our life, you'd have to wonder why Solomon thought these were good things. 1/31/09 4:38 PM DJC49  | Florida    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Michael Hranek wrote: And I don't see any example of the apostles nor Paul nor the Prophets HATING THE LIFE, THE GRACE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THEM nor fault finding with those whose faith was in the Only True and Living God, and rejoicing in the forgiveness of sins... Seems the anyone(s) who would HATE THIS NEW LIFE IN CHRIST and begrudge people of the joy of their salvation would have to be called what they are ... DEVILS. Somehow I have difficulty imagining, or should I say an impossibility imagining that any sane born again child of God should HATE THIS NEW LIFE THAT JESUS CHRIST HAS GIVEN THEM or her... First of all, Jesus Christ, in John 12:25, isn't talking about someone's "NEW LIFE IN CHRIST!" Please consider the CONTEXT before you start in with your idiotic bloviating! Go back and exegete the passage in John 12 and then realize how absolutely silly, foolish, and MEAN-SPIRITED your argument is -- which you've made over several posts. What you've done, Michael Hranek, is (once again) miss the point ENTIRELY! By YOUR misrepresenting both the verse & Apercu's application of it, you've sought to beat a Calvinist over the head ... ... TO THE POINT OF CALLING APERCU A DEVIL!!! You've become quite expert at doing such. It's shameful. 1/31/09 4:15 PM John UK  | Wales    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Apercu Now I see what you say. No problem with that. It is our sinful and slothful nature that desires away from here into heaven. Many times I, like David: "And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest." (Psalms 55:6 KJV) But then I have Jesus interceding for me, with a prayer like this: "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." (John 17:14-16 KJV) Mind you, on the night I got saved, I was so thrilled with the euphoria of knowing Jesus, that I asked God to take me up to heaven there and then. Ha! The things young believers ask for! I'm glad he didn't, because it is a delight to serve him in this world, and I can truly say that many times I have gone into a town cente feeling empty and devoid of spiritual life, only to have him fill me afresh the moment I opened my mouth to speak of him to sinners. What a wonderful life is the Christian life, even the hard and difficult times. 1/31/09 4:06 PM Michael Hranek  | Endicott, New York    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments John UK wrote: I love the text Acts 16:31, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Believe on Jesus as Lord. He must be received as Lord. (repentance) Believe on Jesus as Jesus, the ONE who seeks sinners to save. (faith) Believe on Jesus as Christ. The Messiah of God, the anointed and chosen one of God. (faith) My favourite song for evangelism is: Rescue the perishing, care for the dying Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save Also the little childrens' ditty which is based on John 3:16: Jesus loves me, this I know For the Bible tells me so Little ones to him belong They are weak, but he is strong Yes, Jesus loves me Yes, Jesus loves me Yes, Jesus loves me The Bible tells me so! Once, when I was on my way in to a retired persons home to visit an elderly sister, I saw a young girl outside to whom I said: "Do you know Jesus loves you?" She said, amazingly, "Yes, I know that!" John UK Amen and Amen My family is off to supper/dinner with friends so I will be away from my computer but I wouldn't be away in spirit but will rejoice for your salvation and the encouragement of your faith in Christ. 1/31/09 3:51 PM John UK  | Wales    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Michael the witnessing saint Oh yes, if you have the opportunity to encourage young people to both be saved and to be a good witness to Jesus and his geat love, please do. This turnip is thrilled at what you intend. I love the text Acts 16:31, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Believe on Jesus as Lord. He must be received as Lord. (repentance) Believe on Jesus as Jesus, the ONE who seeks sinners to save. (faith) Believe on Jesus as Christ. The Messiah of God, the anointed and chosen one of God. (faith) No I've not heard that song, but it is nice. My favourite song for evangelism is: Rescue the perishing, care for the dying Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save Also the little childrens' ditty which is based on John 3:16: Jesus loves me, this I know For the Bible tells me so Little ones to him belong They are weak, but he is strong Yes, Jesus loves me Yes, Jesus loves me Yes, Jesus loves me The Bible tells me so! Once, when I was on my way in to a retired persons home to visit an elderly sister, I saw a young girl outside to whom I said: "Do you know Jesus loves you?" She said, amazingly, "Yes, I know that!" 1/31/09 3:45 PM Michael Hranek  | Endicott, New York    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Apercu wrote: The Elect don't love their life in the world, because ... Apercu Apparently you missed an earlier part of Colossians Col 2 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. 20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— 21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. I'd certainly not recommend that anyone would want to attempt cheating a child of God of the JOY of his or her salvation and teach them to live miserably here on this earth when the JOY of the Lord is our strength.

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