The Gospel and the Grace of God: Part 4
The Bible is: a Library, not a Single Book
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The Bible is: Written For Us, Not To Us
James 2:18 “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works
Galatians 2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Matthew 16:18 “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Genesis 17:9-14 God says to Abraham . . . This is my covenant, . . . Every male among you shall be circumcised, . . . and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. . . . Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or . . . any foreigner who is not of your offspring . . .
Justification is:
According to one theologian, the root idea in justification is the declaration of God, the righteous judge, that the person who believes in Christ, sinful though they may be, is righteous — is viewed as being righteous, because in Christ they have come into a righteous relationship with God
~ G. E. Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament, Eerdmans, 1974, p. 437) ~
~ www.gotquestions.org/justification.html ~
Galatians 2:16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 2:20 ESV I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.