Justification By Faith : Bible study part 2
Channel: Africa Without Borders
Date: 2024-01-30

Justification by Faith Alone
BY W. GARY CRAMPTON, TH.D.
This essay was first published in The New Southern Presbyterian Review, edited by Wayne Rogers (Spring 2005).

The doctrine of justification by grace alone (sola gratia), through faith alone (sola fide), by Christ alone (solus Christus) was at the very heart of the Reformation. Martin Luther called it the article by which the church stands or falls. Calvin referred to is as “the main hinge on which religion turns,” and “the sum of all piety.”[2] The Roman Catholic Church, at the Counsel of Trent (1546-1563), recognized the doctrine of justification as the central doctrine at issue between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. In the words of John Gerstner, “this doctrine is the core of the gospel; it is indispensable.”[3] The Protestant church stood upon this major tenet of Christianity, whereas Roman Catholicism fell away by rejecting it.

Basically, there are five prominent, different, and conflicting views regarding this doctrine: liberalism, neo-orthodoxy, antinomianism, Roman Catholicism, and biblical evangelicalism.[4] The first view, liberalism, denies the need of faith in Jesus Christ for salvation; whereas the remaining four views claim that a profession of faith in Christ as Savior is necessary. The liberal may have faith in a number of things, especially himself, but he does not believe that there is need of Christ as Savior. As J. Gresham Machen pointed out in his book Christianity and Liberalism,[5] liberalism is a works righteousness religion; whatever salvation is necessary, it can be earned by one’s own efforts. Liberalism is a form of Pelagianism, and it should not be considered to be Christian in the biblical sense of the word.

https://www.monergism.com/justification-faith-alone
https://www.monergism.com/doctrine-justification-its-evidence
https://www.monergism.com/justification-faith-and-its-consequences#:~:text=Justification%20by%20faith%20rests%20on,to%20him%20when%20he%20believes.

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