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- From: Frank Glenn <fcg AT cvpc.edu.ph>
- To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Justification By Faith
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:14:59 +0800
At 12:03 PM 3/29/99 -0600, Bill wrote:
(snip)
>Romans is marvelously systematic and I depend primarily on it here, though
>the rest of the Bible is consistent with Paul's doctrines presented here.
Eh, forgive my butting in, but you'll have a hard time convincing
Matthew (of the Gospel), James (of the Epistle), and a whole bunch of Hebrew
Bible authors and editors that they've suddenly been baptized as people who
but the generally bankrupt (IMO) theology of substitutionary atonement. I
thought this list was going to take Paul's writings and read them without
preconceived "theology".
>The "key" seems to be to understand that justification by faith is
>inextricably associated with the person and work of Christ because:
>
>* our justification by faith is predicated on Christ's sacrificial death
Suppose Paul was wrong. There sure isn't much of this in the
Synoptics or Johannine literature.
>* what we must believe is the record of God concerning His Son and His death
>and resurrection on our behalf
"Must" is a very onerous word.
>* we believe *into* grace and the person and work of Christ
So we also have a savior on a white horse or some kind of bank
account of grace or the harrowing of hell or the rest of it? Come on. I
don't want to violate the Netiquette and be offensive, but what we have here
is simply an attempt to preempt any discussion with asserting conclusions.
Frank
-
Justification By Faith,
David C. Hindley, 03/28/1999
- RE: Justification By Faith, Bill Ross, 03/29/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: Justification By Faith, Frank Glenn, 03/30/1999
- Re: Justification By Faith, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 03/30/1999
- RE: Justification By Faith, Bill Ross, 03/31/1999
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