The Impossibility of Religious Work-Righteousness*

*Herman Hoeksema was the first editor of the Standard Bearer. For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Romans 2:28, 29 The question which the apostle is answering in the context is the question whether a man can be righteous before God because of his religion. He is talking no...