Faith, good works, and doing
Watterson critiques Huizinga's restrictive definition of "work" and "doing" in relation to faith and obedience, arguing that internal spiritual activities—such as faith, trust, and the battle of the soul—constitute genuine doing and should not be excluded from Reformed understanding of good works. Drawing on the Heidelberg Catechism and Belgic Confession, he demonstrates that Scripture and confessional standards present faith itself as an active doing and that God's law commands internal spiritual exercises, particularly belief and trust in the first commandment.
I have some problems with the recent article by Prof. B. Huizinga on "The nature of good works as works." I appreciated that faith was called an activity, a demand of the gospel call, and obedience, but in plain language, an activity is done and obedience must be done. The definition of "work" or "doing" provided in the article excluded this common usage since it also required: 1. Exertion 2. Producing 3. External work through the body As a software engineer, I spend much of my time...
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