Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

SOLA FIDE
Monergism.com ^ | unknown

Posted on 02/26/2011 1:52:09 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg

"Grace is not a reward for faith; faith is the result of grace." - John Blanchard

"Saving faith is not a native product of the human heart, but is a spiritual grace communicated from on High." - A.W. Pink, http://bit.ly/drXWnO

"It is not faith that saves, but faith in Jesus Christ.... It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not int he act of faith or the attitude of faith or in the nature of faith, but in the object of faith." - B. B. Warfield

Justification is by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone. This is the article by which the church stands or falls...There is no gospel except that of Christ's substitution in our place whereby God imputed to him our sin and imputed to us his righteousness. Because he bore our judgment, we now walk in his grace as those who are forever pardoned, accepted and adopted as God's children. There is no basis for our acceptance before God except in Christ's saving work, not in our patriotism, churchly devotion or moral decency. The gospel declares what God has done for us in Christ. It is not about what we can do to reach him. We reaffirm that justification is by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone. In justification Christ's righteousness is imputed to us as the only possible satisfaction of God's perfect justice. We deny that justification rests on any merit to be found in us, or upon the grounds of an infusion of Christ's righteousness in us, or that an institution claiming to be a church that denies or condemns sola fide can be recognized as a legitimate church. - Cambridge Declaration

Faith itself is man's act or work and is thereby excluded from being any part of his justifying righteousness. It is one thing to be justified by faith merely as an instrument by which man receives the righteousness of Christ, and another to be justified FOR faith as an act or work of the law. If a sinner, then, relies on his actings of faith or works of obedience to any of the commands of the law for a title to eternal life, he seeks to be justified by works of the law as much as if his works were perfect. If he depends either in whole or in part, on his faith and repentance for a right to any promised blessing, he thereby so annexes that promise to the commands to believe and repent as to form them for himself into a covenant of works. Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of obedience, he places them in Christ's stead as his grounds of right to the promise and so he demonstrates himself to be of the works of the law and so be under the curse." Galatians 3:10 - John Colquhoun (A Treatise on Law and the Gospel)


TOPICS: Apologetics; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: fide; soalfide; sola; solafide
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 3,121-3,128 next last
To: narses
I am happy to help those less able when asked, so feel free to ask.

Help me in my infirmities, O Magnificat!

Will thou condescend to impart a least bit of they knowledge, I pray thee?

41 posted on 02/26/2011 2:23:24 PM PST by the_conscience (We ought to obey God, rather than men. (Acts 5:29b))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Quix

English
Hail Mary, full of grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among women
and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus
Holy Mary, mother of God
Pray for us sinners
Now and at the hour of our death
Amen.

Latin
Ave Maria gratia plena,
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus
fructus ventris tui, Iesus
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae
Amen.


42 posted on 02/26/2011 2:23:48 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: narses

LET GOD ARISE

AND HIS IDOLATROUS BLASPHEMOUS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED.


43 posted on 02/26/2011 2:24:35 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Eckleburg
That quote from Pink is exactly why so many people don't agree with Faith Alone. Faith is a manifestation of Grace, not something separate and apart from it.

Baptist understanding of faith includes the fact that man cannot have such faith as is required apart from having first accepted the Grace that faith flows from.

44 posted on 02/26/2011 2:28:03 PM PST by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: xzins; Religion Moderator; Quix; narses

Here’s the post by the Religion Moderator regarding foreign languages in posts...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2618333/posts?page=915#915

To: Natural Law

Do not ever post an excorcism as if a prayer for another Freeper. And do not ever post in a foreign language without also translating it to English.

915 posted on Friday, November 05, 2010 8:29:24 PM by Religion Moderator


45 posted on 02/26/2011 2:28:21 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: narses

Sad, Man may try to Deify Mary, but she confessed she was but a handmaid of the Lord, and the Saviour was born of woman, concieved by the Holy Ghost, was His Mother Mary’s Saviour.

She like all born of man we born sinners, and all sinners need a Saviour!

“But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba Father.” (Galatians 4:3-6)


46 posted on 02/26/2011 2:28:41 PM PST by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonymous)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: narses
Latin is NOT a “foreign” language

Here is a handy guide they can use to translate the archaic English of the King James Version whenever they post verses from it.

47 posted on 02/26/2011 2:29:43 PM PST by Titanites
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Titanites

:)


48 posted on 02/26/2011 2:30:34 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: Quix; Dr. Eckleburg

Actually, to me, I think that Greek, Hebrew, and Latin are recognized (aramaic, too) languages of our religions that have regularly been used throughout the Christian era in many texts, books, and articles.

I admit they are a problem sometimes because the author doesn’t take the trouble to translate them.

However, my normal recourse is simply to pass over them, if I don’t have the time to pore over them.

If the author fails to communicate, then that is the message sender’s problem and not the message receivers.

Like Paul says, I’d far rather speak in a known language than a thousand words in an unknown tongue. Which, of course, Paul uses as an argument against speaking in tongues in the assembly.


49 posted on 02/26/2011 2:30:46 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: LetMarch

“Sad, Man may try to Deify Mary,...”

Sad indeed. Where is that happening?


50 posted on 02/26/2011 2:31:23 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: narses

I love all the Latin. Such a beautiful dead language. Three of my older kids are taking a classical Grammar course that has them translating the bible from Latin to English and back and then translating it into modern English. I can’t believe how quickly they are picking it up and how many of the words are almost English. I truly believe it will help them learn foreign languages down the road.


51 posted on 02/26/2011 2:32:52 PM PST by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Titanites

The Religion Moderator has outlawed Latin or any other foreign/dead language on FR without translation.


52 posted on 02/26/2011 2:33:21 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: xzins; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; GiovannaNicoletta; ...

imho,

The RC’s have such a chronic, relentless field day—with their outrageous degree of, breadth of, intensity of

abject arrogance, sancitmonious obscenities, self-righteous outrages, exclusivity, !!!!DEMANDS!!!! for submission and conformity to THEIR sensibilities and trumped up realities . . .

it’s well warranted to slap such down at every turn.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be room for anything on the FR Rel Forum but

RC EGOS.


53 posted on 02/26/2011 2:35:28 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: narses

You got that right.

Sola deo gloria.

Not Mary. Not the pope. Not anyone’s good works.

God’s merciful, unearned grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

Again. Not Mary. Not popes. Not anyone’s good work.


54 posted on 02/26/2011 2:36:01 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Eckleburg

Like I said, I don’t dispute your word. I’m just not concerned if someone attacks my faith. “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I’ve committed to Him against that day.”


55 posted on 02/26/2011 2:36:26 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Eckleburg; Religion Moderator
The Religion Moderator has outlawed Latin or any other foreign/dead language on FR without translation.

That's why I referenced that handy guide - to assist those who post from the archaic English of the King James Version. No thanks necessary.

56 posted on 02/26/2011 2:36:40 PM PST by Titanites
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: narses; Quix; xzins; metmom; RnMomof7; LetMarch; the_conscience; Religion Moderator

The fact that you’re littering this thread with prayers to dead people is a good illustration of why the Caucus label is necessary.

I thought about posting this as a Caucus, but decided it would be interesting to see what turned up.

I was not disappointed. Prayers about the pope. Prayers to Mary. Foreign/dead languages offered in rebuke of the rules.

Same old/same old.

But thanks, Narses, for illustrating the fact that the FR rules DO serve a good and Godly purpose when they are followed.

Try to do that. And try to stay on topic. The topic of this thread is Sola Fide and its correct and Scriptural understanding.


57 posted on 02/26/2011 2:37:14 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Quix

I’m tired of disunity.

I’m on the religion forum to promote true Christian Unity.

The rules we have are rules that should unify...

but God’s children ignore the bible far too often.


58 posted on 02/26/2011 2:39:33 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Eckleburg
"Saving faith is not a native product of the human heart, but is a spiritual grace communicated from on High." - A.W. Pink

This poor guy, one of Calvin's biggest apologists, is about as good as Calvin at creating ad hoc definitions to support the theory and then assuming their origin lay in Scripture.

When someone, like Pink, says that for someone to claim that the purpose of Jesus's death was to provide salvation for all is "to undermine the very foundations of our faith," (Pink, AW, The Sovereignty of God, Baker, 1986, p. 260) you know that there's something seriously wrong with his faith. It's the worst kind of punting imaginable to attribute the origin of that faith to God.
59 posted on 02/26/2011 2:46:16 PM PST by aruanan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Eckleburg

Yaaawnnnnn.......


60 posted on 02/26/2011 2:48:00 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 3,121-3,128 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson