Does the Bible actually teach that we are declared righteous on the basis of Christ’s work on our behalf? Some argue that this view of justification essentially amounts to “legal fiction".
What will you say at Christmas dinner when that one relative—maybe a relative who identifies as gay—asks you the same question regarding LGBTQ and sin?
There are millions of ways to God. There are as many ways to God as there are religions, philosophies, and other beliefs!
And they all end in judgment.
Did Paul invent the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone on account of Christ alone, or was this something that Jesus himself clearly taught in a variety of ways throughout his earthly ministry?
Seeing life in black and white in God’s word strengthens us and gives us guidance for what to do. I have in mind Romans 1:26: “God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.”
When Nicodemas said, "We know you are a teacher come from God," Jesus responded as if to say, "I am God, and no one gets to God unless He is born of God."
The doctrine of justification is the fulfillment of something that had been hinted at and promised throughout the Old Testament, and also discussed in a variety of Jewish sources in the intertestamental period. From before the time of Christ, we find a confident hope and expectation that the Lord himself will be “our righteousness”.