Back to faith

Back to faith

1. Does faith guarantee works?

   • Faith that saves is not alone
     • So justification is not equal to sanctification
     • doubt and struggle
     • R.T. Kendall: They just might be wrong on a point or two,
       • Good works do not help the slightest bit with reference to our eternal salvation. Onse a person has rested his case in the finished work of Jesus Christ, there is nothing further he can do to help, neither is there anything further he can do that can hurt.

2. defended - act - changed - independent - pressure - remarried - throw back

   • longstanding cliche - works are essential to faith - faith and works can be related but are distinct
     • Enemy - diluted and destroyed grace - addition of works to faith - pure gospel of God's grace excludes all human works as the basis of validation of God's work which makes the sinner right with him.
       • Faith is not alone?
         • Works validate justification-salvation in James 2:14-26?

3. Inherent contradictions to the Gospel found in the Reformed tradition.

4. "Faith alone in Christ alone" and works accompanying salvation are "normal but not necessary"

5. Zane Hodges: Looking at the text for what it was saying, rather than what I felt I "needed" it to say.

   • Placing the Word of God ahead of my theological bias.
     • Willing to have real conversations.
       • Fight with our theology rather than scriptures and reason.

6. Trust is put in both faith and works, and as a result there is a final "lack of belief in Christ's atonement".