tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808697756426649418.post6112234004622590435..comments2023-12-25T09:58:54.563-06:00Comments on The Christian Freethinker: Do Catholics Believe in Justification by Faith Alone?Mark Hausamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371790103414979060noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808697756426649418.post-27902789972430100242016-10-11T11:44:04.385-05:002016-10-11T11:44:04.385-05:00I've posted a short response on my blog: https...I've posted a short response on my blog: https://highplainsparson.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/response-to-do-catholics-believe-in-justification-by-faith-alone-by-mark-hausam/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808697756426649418.post-32029801459201508942016-07-05T12:39:47.501-05:002016-07-05T12:39:47.501-05:00Amen!
I don't think I have written anything s...Amen!<br /><br />I don't think I have written anything specifically on the subject of "progressive" vs. "final" justification. Are you speaking of the relationship between our growth in grace in this life and our final reward at the judgment? Perhaps you could elaborate on what you have in mind here.<br /><br />And by the way, connecting this to the predestination conversation in the other post, notice how the Scriptures tell us that God makes us righteous. You've got some great quotes for this above, using lots of "causal" language. This implies that it is a gift of grace for us to have a good will to turn to God, not something we have the capacity to produce from ourselves just by virtue of having a free will. This is what the Canons of Orange were trying to protect with such detail. The heart of justification by faith rather than by works is that our righteousness is ultimately a gift of God.<br /><br />Thanks!Mark Hausamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07371790103414979060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808697756426649418.post-7739554697261953932016-06-29T18:05:39.683-05:002016-06-29T18:05:39.683-05:00I just read your post on Justification. They were ...I just read your post on Justification. They were a pleasure to read. It is interesting that the New Testament never says specifically that Christ's personal righteousness is imputed to us. One's personal righteousness cannot be transfered to another, like the protestants teach.That would be a legal fiction indeed. <br /><br />The Bible says that are sins are remitted and not imputed to us. It says that "faith" is reckoned to us as righteousness. It says that we "become" the righteouseness of God in Him. But never does it says that Christ's personal righteousness is imputed to us in a kind of legal transfer. I love what Romans 8 says. This whole chapter is a beautiful exposition of justification. For example, He says "1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be FULFILLED IN US, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit"(KJV). It is internal not merely external. <br /> He accounts us righteous,because he "cleanseth us from all unrighteousness"( I John 1:9). A "right" relationship with him is established because he renewed "a RIGHT spirit within me" as the St David the prophet declared.. We are reconciled with God.It is a relationship of friendship when before it was enmity. Our sins are removed;we are delivered from them. We are cleansed and sanctified and are made pleasing to God. I like the Psalmist's intrinsic and internal language in Psalm 50, "Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me". And St Peter's words, " And Peter opening his mouth, said: In very deed I perceive, that God is not a respecter of persons.But in every nation, he that feareth him, and worketh justice, is acceptable to him. (Act 10:35 Douay Rheims) It is the righteousness of (or from) God through Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe....Romans 3 KJV. Wonderful posts! The Eastern Orthodox teaching and the Roman one have a whole lot in common on the basics of Justification. Have you written anything yet on progressive justification and final justification? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557780849523482378noreply@blogger.com