Bible Doctrine

Others point out that you cannot get into heaven based upon good works alone; if you could, then Christ’s sacrifice would have been meaningless. To gain salvation, you must receive God’s grace,

According to the New Testament there is an event with is called justification by faith which is where the human heart is restored fully (Merrick, 2015). This is the solution to human problems which accords to the Christian worldview. If one were to claim their faith with God, they are forgiven for their sins and are blessed with the grace of God. It is by grace that one has been freed through the faith, which is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8-9, NIV). This is the role of which grace and faith plain in the Christian salvation.

The Epistle of James lays out why faith without good works is meaningless. James, the half- brother also tells us to obtain wisdom through full faith in God, and to persevere through the trails that every Christian faces. The author uses Christ as an example of how to be a Christian who has faith with good works.

Though Jesus was sinless and undeserving of death, he offered himself as a sacrifice in atonement for all sin (Invitation to World Religions, pg.418). Paul was always emphatic in maintaining that salvation cannot be earned by “works”, whether humans’ effort to obey the commandments in the Torah or excellent work in general. Instead, he taught that the salvation made possible by Christ’s sacrifice is a gift, the ultimate expression of God’s love and grace. Salvation is given to those who respond to God’s grace in faith, the conviction that God has acted through Jesus Christ to amend for human sin. Although Paul was very clear in teaching that salvation depends on God’s grace and the individual’s turning to God in faith, he did not dismiss the importance of works (Invitation to World Religions, pg.419). For Paul, faith does more than bringing salvation; it unites the believers with Christ in a “newness of life”. He believed that the spirit lives in believers and brings them into union with God. As a divine presence within, the spirit encourages the growth of spiritual virtues, the greatest which is love and makes all Christians one in the church often called “the body of Christ”.

3. Justification by faith- Forgiveness and removal of sin by God can be achieved only through faith alone a. Emphasized by Martin Luther during the Reformation. Weakened the power of the Church by saying that it was not needed for salvation. Also

In Romans 1-8 Paul is writing to teach the doctrine of Christ. Although Paul goes into much more depth in these eight chapters, his message ultimately boils down to the following sentence. We have all sinned and deserve death, however, through the redemption and sanctification of Christ we have been saved and should now lead, Christ centered lives of faith.

Scripture opens with a witness to the act of God in creation. This fact points to us that understanding the world as the creation of the infinite-personal God is a fundamental starting point in constructing any kind of adequate theology. What is also clear is that it is important to get this understanding right, to the extent that we can do so. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1 HCSB) (Akin, Theology of the church). But with the revelation of the speaking God who has told us what he has done should make us want to please him each and every day and to show him we love him to.

“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of thy womb a reward.

Christians have always had a strange relationship with the predominant non-Christian culture. Invariably, they react to it in one of three different ways. One is to reject that culture entirely, emphasizing Jesus’ teaching to be “strangers here on earth”. Another is to embrace the culture, to try to connect Christianity with the culture, or to frame Christianity in light of the culture. But the third reaction is different. This view is the best one, and the one St. Augustine embraces.

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” (Romans 1:16-17) This substantiates the belief that you cannot repair your relationship with God solely through your good deeds; it is instead accomplished through faith in Jesus Christ and all of His wondrous works.

Sara was at a coffee shop with a friend, Joanna, and started have a discussion. They start to talk about different things happening in the world and how they view them. They talked about how the world begin, how to treat people, and much more. This conversation went on for a while and Sara was using the Bible to back-up what she was saying, while Joanna had nothing to support what she believed in. Sara had a biblical worldview.

At the onset of the Christian faith, its followers faced a difficult period in which they had to deal with many internal and external forces of confusion about their new faith. With Christianity being a rather close subdivision of Judaism, the followers of Christianity are faced with the task of supporting their beliefs and practices deeming why they are justifiable. In this apologetic period, these Jewish Christians embark on the task of defending their church and the religion itself in order to establish its credibility and existence.

onward, we are now part of a human web in which the Christian religion plays a subtle, but evident role. In this essay I have tried to give a short, but adequate answer to the question “How did Christianity become the most prominent religion in the late Roman empire? (200 C.E. onward)”. At the basis of the rise of Christianity stand religious aspects, like the Christian missionary character and the duty of charity, as well as the involvement of the Christian emperors, in particular Constantine, who boosted the Christian expansion by issuing the Edicts of Milan and Thessalonica and sponsoring the Christian cause. Christian expansion therefore, has been stimulated from within and outside of the

Although we were not saved by works, we are called to respond to God by doing the works he prepared for

There are going to be times in our lives when we disagree with what someone says or another person’s opinions on a particular matter. It’s unlikely that we will agree and be content with everything that happens in our lives as we do not live in a utopian world. It is also inevitable at one time or another that we will disagree with what the Church is teaching us especially when it comes to moral issues such as divorce, birth control, and abortion. This is called non-reception. When non-reception ensues in the Church, the teaching in question is ineffectively expressed or judged to be unbelievable by a large population of good, faithful Catholics (Kennedy).