Justification by Faith Alone: The Article of the Standing or Falling Church
This journal article by Mark Shand examines the doctrine of justification by faith alone as the central issue of the Protestant Reformation, drawing extensively from Reformed catechetical material to explain how God's free grace declares sinners righteous through faith in Christ's imputed righteousness alone. The resource commemorates the 500th anniversary of Luther's 95 Theses and underscores justification as the foundational doctrine upon which the church either stands or falls.
Q. 70 What is justification? A. Justification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which He pardons all their sins, accepts and accounts their persons righteous in His sight; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone. Q. 71 How is justification an act of His free grace? A. Although Christ, by His obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full...
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